OK, the self-promotion charge is fair.
In fact, it's equally as fair as it would be to level at "Kunt".
How is giving money to a charity "normalising food banks", though?
(, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 13:30, Reply)
Dunno but I was listening to that Nick Abbott last night
and someone had texted in saying they wouldn't vote Labour because Labour say they want to scrap food banks, and they need food banks to feed their kids.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 13:34,
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Oh soz.
Monkeon's point is better made.
My point was that food banks are already normalised, and campaigns to end them are seen, by some misguided idiots, as an attack on the poor.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 14:17,
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Why choose between them?
You could be their Lucky Pierre.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 15:20,
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I believe the argument is that
if people support food banks without also calling out the cause of food banks then it allows a government to ignore the problem as charity will cover it.
Part of the Trussell Trust's work is to "campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK", which I believe people like Ed Sheeran and LadBaby will be too media trained and publicly apolitical to mention as part of this campaign.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 14:04,
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Presumably "Kunt" is avoiding this problem
by being opaque about how much of his royalties, if any, he'll be giving to charity. I trust someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
(, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 14:21, Reply)
He's not claiming it's for charity, though, is he?
To announce that would turn it into a charity single.
To be honest, I think LadBaby is more thick than deliberate about it, and presumably he's got the number one in the bag (bag! like a Greggs bag! rofl) but quite amusing that he'd mention the opposition and give the publicity.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 14:51,
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Anyway, I'd rather see some b3tan names
on BBC Micro snowflakes.
ko-fi.com/post/Charity-snowflake-generator-R6R47ESHZ
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 15:09,
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Whether the Kunt chooses to give a penny to charity or not is entirely up to him. He has to eat three times a day and pay the rent like the rest of us.
I'm sick to death of this "it's for charity, therefore it's sacrosanct" argument.
(, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 14:53, Reply)
That wasn't my point.
The OP seemed to be implying that "Kunt" has a purer motive than "LadBaby"/John/Sheeran, on the basis that the latter are shamelessly promoting themselves.
My point is that the whole lot of them are shamelessly promoting themselves, including "Kunt". If one lot are giving the proceeds to charity and the other may not be, it doesn't look to me like he's got a purer motive - he's only in it to promote himself, whereas at least the others are making at least a gesture at altruism.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not supporting any of them. Elton was last good in the 1980s, and I'd be quite happy if Sheeran, "LadBaby" and "Kunt" all fucked off into obscurity and stopped wasting everyone's time with their pointless existences.
(, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 16:16, Reply)
Listen carefully to the lyrics
They might give you a clue as to Kunt's motives and the reason for our continuing reliance on food banks. Charities picking up the tab instead of the state - it's a Tory's wet dream.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 16:29,
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I suspect it
is primarily a novelty record done for the laughs, rather than an actual attempt to raise awareness.
LadBaby's mistake of engaging gave him a good PR angle which seems to have worked.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 17:16,
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Hmm I dunno.
Meeting with Jon Morter, following the KLF procedure, the savvy social media chart manipulation, selling the idea that buying his song will affect political change, creating a political themed battle of the bands contest... It all looks like a cynical cash grab to me, but I'm quite a cynical cunt myself. Especially at Christmas.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 17:51,
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Yeah, I'm sure
money and ego are also involved.
I was meaning more what he expects people to take from the record itself.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 18:15,
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Edgy Comedy vs Catchprase Comedy
But which is best?
A. Whimsy #CaptainBeaky4XmasNo1
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 19:23,
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Part of the Trussell Trust's work is to "campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK“.
Yeah, right. A bunch of well paid charity executives are not going to successfully campaign themselves out of a job. Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 23 Dec 2021, 22:14,
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