ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1aaz3s wrote
Reply to comment by BlLLr0y in The Band Aid song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is offensive, and that was before I saw the cover art 🤨 by ASecularBuddhist
I would love to see the money trail. They probably spent more in car rentals for the photo op in Africa then they did actually helping the people in any meaningful way.
But I don’t know. They may have saved hundreds or thousands of lives.
MrForgettyPants t1_j1acdqb wrote
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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