MrForgettyPants t1_j1acdqb wrote
Reply to comment by ASecularBuddhist in The Band Aid song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is offensive, and that was before I saw the cover art 🤨 by ASecularBuddhist
They 'tried' but with zero follow through they ended up only feeding murderous armies in a civil war and strapping them with fresh weapons and ammunition... thereby extending the man-made famine.
ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1aileb wrote
“The album producers were surprisingly unaware [uninterested] that a majority of Ethiopians are Orthodox Christians who do very much know when it’s Christmas.”
BlLLr0y t1_j1aon86 wrote
It was a goddamned fundraising effort, yah Scrooge.
ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1ap77i wrote
They pulled it off. A very noble pursuit.
The cover art is horrendous.
I take that back. Bob Geldof was warned not to give money to a brutal dictator, and he did it anyway. A completely amazing story that I’ve never heard of before:
https://www.spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-the-terrible-truth-ethiopia-bob-geldof-feature/
Quirky-Smoke3584 t1_j1b9q2b wrote
But they pulled it off to atrocious effect. And Geldoff walked away from it all, caring more about the global adulation.
The very definition of virtue signaling.
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