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| quote: | Originally posted by Ste
What if I G Farben offered tiesto a million dollar advertising contract? Would you have no problem then? |
isn't there some unofficial rule that whenever someone invokes nazism in an internet debate they automatically lose by virtue of their lack of perspective?
| quote: | Originally posted by Ste Yeh good for him that he is associating himself with china and it's impeccable human rights record and coca cola with it's equally impressive treatment of it's union reps of it's bottler workers in columbia.
I'd love to associate myself with imprisonment, murder and torture to make a quick dollar.
He should have stuck to disneyland. |
disneyland has been accused of union-busting as well, not to mention child molestation cases that were swept under the rug here in the states.
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the larger point is that unless you're growing organic vegetables in a commune and wearing hand-made hemp clothes, you're contributing to the machine in one way or another -- by the taxes you pay, by the manner in which you live and by the conspicuous consumption in which you partake.
tiesto's sanctioning of "murder and torture" is oblique and indirect, similar to us buying clothes from most major retailers or going to a movie.
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that being said, i agree that his inability to turn down an endorsement deal and willingness to slap his name on anything is tacky and crass; at this point in his life, with ungodly sums in his accounts that can fund him into old age, he should be making more informed choices.
but then again he's just a dj: if we expect our entertainers and celebrities to be on the vanguards of social justice we're in for a lot of disappointment.
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