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for me its the arms trade. Daniel Ek pours spotify wealth into next gen miltech. sometimes I worry that I don't know what music means to other people but I am
by justatdotin 9mo ago
for me its the arms trade.
Daniel Ek pours spotify wealth into next gen miltech.
sometimes I worry that I don't know what music means to other people but I am certain that to me it is antithetical to war culture.
- DUDOS 9mo agoI feel like Ek receives a disproportional amount of hate for this. You have all these American CEO's pouring their investments in the American war machine (Palantir, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, etc) and no one bats an eye. Is it because this time it's going to a European company?
- anigbrowl 9mo agoNo, it's because Spotify is a consumer facing brand that people interact with daily and are aware of even if they don't use it. Also they're notorious for not paying artists well.
- justatdotin 9mo ago'LM are worse' is really not the strong vote of support you think it is. More than two things can be utterly disgusting at the very same time!
- veeti 9mo agoActually there are a whole lot of musicians who find pride in "punching nazis" so to speak, but you are entitled to your Russian sympathies.
- justatdotin 9mo agook I think I remember this one where disliking war means I side with whoever you think your enemy is today. I'm not american and I'm not interested in your ideas about who to kill.
- OKRainbowKid 9mo agoPractically nobody "likes" war. However, when facing adversaries like Putin who don't care for democracy, human life, human rights, agreements and contracts, who have no conviction beyond "might makes right", not ensuring clearly superior military capabilities ultimately means submitting to their plans of domination. Reflexively rejecting any kind of military investment is naïve and plays into the hands of the likes of Putin. It is no surprise that in the west, political parties and actors with proven ties to the Russian regime predominantly promote this faux-pacifist narrative, effectively inviting the fox into the chicken pen.
- justatdotin 9mo agoyes you've got me, I'm a russian agent trying to fool you into questioning the arms trade. was it the accent?
- OKRainbowKid 9mo agoI did not mean to imply that at all.