It's the difference between a nice gesture and giving away his life's work to take a stand. It's still a nice gesture, but I doubt he will financially notice the lost streaming royalties from his fanbase on Greenland. Boycotting Amazon is probably the bigger thing here.
Before Amazon were malls, before that, the big stores came along like shopko, Walmart, etc. which still persist. But of you go back far enough you get "Department" stores, mainly in the big cities 100 years ago.
As an aside, the stock market has also always been fucked. All the way back to the beginning like Jay Gould and the rail company corruption.
Anyway Amazon didn't kill shopping malls. Online stores in general killed shopping malls. All of the businesses that we usually in the malls started selling directly online, so they shut themselves down.
Then it got confusing because then Amazon introduced the affiliate program and then you could buy things from all the retailers through Amazon. But the malls were dead by then anyway.
Being a decent person means you are unwilling to do things you know are going to hurt others, even if they’re assholes. You’ll avoid conflict.
The problem is that assholes have no such restrictions, so they’re just fine with fucking other people over.
And then you have the people that drive past the car crash who just don’t want to deal with it.
So you can have relatively few assholes who can do a lot of damage. I wouldn’t say there are more stupid/evil ones, there are just a large majority unwilling to engage in the actual conflict needed to stop them.
I disagree, when a majority of more than two thirds of Americans either voted for or failed to vote against Trump, they decided they were OK with a sociopathic president that might destroy democracy for USA.
Opinion polls show that Trump still has about 33% support! Taking away healthcare from people, threatening USA's nearest and strongest allies, supporting Putin's war against Ukraine, damaging the economy badly, abandoning hundreds of international agreements, the atrocities of ICE and threatening democracy in USA, being obviously corrupt using DOJ to go after people who have opposed him. And this list isn't even half complete of the shit he is doing, and STILL about 33% support him!
I guarantee that it's easy to find another 18% that still support some of the above shit, and that absolutely means they are evil.
Claiming this is not a problem for a majority of the American people is delusional. You are refusing to acknowledge how bad it is.
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treadful@lemmy.zip · 104 pts · 218d
He gave access to his catalog for free. He did not give copyright.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 40 pts · 218d
For 1 year
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 218d
With free renewal long as they live in Greenland.
redditmademedoit@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 218d
It's the difference between a nice gesture and giving away his life's work to take a stand. It's still a nice gesture, but I doubt he will financially notice the lost streaming royalties from his fanbase on Greenland. Boycotting Amazon is probably the bigger thing here.
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · 7 pts · 218d
Will it automatically show up in their Apple Music collection like that one U2 album?
Claidheamh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 218d
That was still iTunes at the time!
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 217d
God, I'm so far out of the loop on things that I didn't know it wasn't itunes.
SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -4 pts · 218d
So basically people in Greenland can just listen to it for free if I'm understanding correctly?
That's basically nothing, just a PR move
DougHolland@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 218d
Can't think of anyone in show business who's been so based, for so damned long. Keep on rockin' in the free world, man.
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 218d
We should have listened to him 😩
Neil Young endorses Bernie Sanders: 'Every point he makes is what I believe in'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/10/neil-young-endorses-bernie-sanders-every-point-he-makes-is-what-i-believe-in
jeffw@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 218d
Keep on rocking in Greenland
Edit: help, I’ve had this song stuck in my head with the fake lyric for an hour
zwerg@feddit.org · 3 pts · 218d
The country version or the rock/punk version?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 218d
Keep on rocking in the green land.
As far as I know, there's only one main version.
zwerg@feddit.org · 1 pts · 218d
Oof, I was thinking if out of the black, into the blue/out of the blue into the black. I need more sleep...
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 218d
Well, you know what they say. It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 218d
I'll never forget how Amazon's leadership was intertwined with Donald Trump. Fuck Amazon.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 218d
Yeah and they killed shopping malls. Never buy anything from there, might as well sail the high seas.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 19 pts · 218d
callouscomic@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 218d
Before Amazon were malls, before that, the big stores came along like shopko, Walmart, etc. which still persist. But of you go back far enough you get "Department" stores, mainly in the big cities 100 years ago.
As an aside, the stock market has also always been fucked. All the way back to the beginning like Jay Gould and the rail company corruption.
The system has always been against us.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 218d
I'm getting Jay Gould and Jay Gruber confused.
sniggleboots@europe.pub · 3 pts · 218d
Which one has the bigass chin?
username123@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 218d
Jay Leno
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 218d
I don't know what either of them look like, but if I remember correctly, Jay Gruber is the CEO of Blue Sky.
sniggleboots@europe.pub · 4 pts · 217d
Sorry I was just making a Jay Leno joke
echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 217d
Anyway Amazon didn't kill shopping malls. Online stores in general killed shopping malls. All of the businesses that we usually in the malls started selling directly online, so they shut themselves down.
Then it got confusing because then Amazon introduced the affiliate program and then you could buy things from all the retailers through Amazon. But the malls were dead by then anyway.
X@piefed.world · 21 pts · 218d
Based af Neil Young, fuck yeah
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 218d
There are lots of good Americans, unfortunately though there are even more stupid/evil ones.
microcapybara@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 218d
Accurate, but Neil Young is Canadian.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
I suppose I owe him an apology. 🫣
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 217d
No American would do this. Young is Canadian.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
Sorry, then maybe he is what Americans should strive to be.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 218d
Also/or the stupid evil ones are -at the moment- far more motivated to fuck things up than the decent ones are to try to fix things.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 218d
It's definitely an uphill battle to be a good American today.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
Being a decent person means you are unwilling to do things you know are going to hurt others, even if they’re assholes. You’ll avoid conflict.
The problem is that assholes have no such restrictions, so they’re just fine with fucking other people over.
And then you have the people that drive past the car crash who just don’t want to deal with it.
So you can have relatively few assholes who can do a lot of damage. I wouldn’t say there are more stupid/evil ones, there are just a large majority unwilling to engage in the actual conflict needed to stop them.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
I disagree, when a majority of more than two thirds of Americans either voted for or failed to vote against Trump, they decided they were OK with a sociopathic president that might destroy democracy for USA.
Opinion polls show that Trump still has about 33% support! Taking away healthcare from people, threatening USA's nearest and strongest allies, supporting Putin's war against Ukraine, damaging the economy badly, abandoning hundreds of international agreements, the atrocities of ICE and threatening democracy in USA, being obviously corrupt using DOJ to go after people who have opposed him. And this list isn't even half complete of the shit he is doing, and STILL about 33% support him!
I guarantee that it's easy to find another 18% that still support some of the above shit, and that absolutely means they are evil.
Claiming this is not a problem for a majority of the American people is delusional. You are refusing to acknowledge how bad it is.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 218d
Legend.
SpankyDoodle@eviltoast.org · 6 pts · 218d
Ha! I love it.
solrize@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 218d
Does he have a cover of "Greenland Whale Fisheries"?
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Whale is fucking delicious though.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · -8 pts · 218d
Hasnt greenland suffered enough?