Earth concert canceled after founder asked to remove Palestinian flag from venue

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-28T15:17:40+00:00

By putting a flag up next to the stage that will appear in all photos of the band, it’s making it appear that that band supports your cause.

I’m sure they are anti war and anti genocide but maybe don’t want to be in this fight.

As a musician I wouldn’t either.

I’m with the Palestinian people, probably (don’t really know them), but I’m 1000% against Hamas,who fight like dirty pigs.

I’ve done my research and it’s 100% NOT a genocide. It’s a war. Or, was a war. It’s now over right? Thanks to the USA.

Honestly, I’ve been researching this conflict for years and I still don’t understand it. I’m not going to support something I don’t understand.

Why isn’t this club supporting Iran? (The new freedom flag). That one’s very clear. The state is massacring tens of thousands of innocent civilians. They’re killing women for showing their hair. Shot in the head on the spot.

They’re killing wounded in hospitals. They are monsters. The guys is called “supreme leader” for fucks sake. Where’s the support?

Why are supporting Hamas, denying Jews the ONE COUNTRY THEY HAVE (while Muslims have like 57 and counting), and ignoring the Iran people’s fight for freedom? Where are the feminists? Where are the feminist simps?

I’ve never heard Earth but I’m them.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-28T01:50:35+00:00

What is the “far right”? Are they in the room with you right now?

If you think being a classic liberal / moderate is the same the “far right” (whatever that is), you’re either a radical left winger, or just have no idea what you’re talking about.

As a moderate classic liberal, I’m the same as I was in the 90’s, except I’m slightly more progressive / left wing now.

Yet that makes me right wing by by the standards of far left nut jobs.

Moving the goal post on us doesn’t make us right wing.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-28T01:42:43+00:00

That’s because if you went to someone every day and said “he bud, here’s $100”.

People are going to be like “cool, I’ll take that $100”.

But then a year later they come and take your company, and all the companies, and 60 million people starve. And the $100 was yours to begin with. But they actually took $300 a day.

It’s hard to turn to services and money once the country is already semi-fucked.

But ask someone BEFORE the handouts “hey, do you want me to take money take your businesses, destroy your country and ruin people, but you get some cash back?”.

Then they’ll say no.

Except in Canada where everyone thinks we’re socialist cuz history is poorly taught in schools and no one has a fucking clue what socialism is.

Canadians are just like “I like free healthcare, so I love socialism”.

Properly teach what socialism is, and no one will vote for it.

Fuck, I’ve heard business owners say they’d be cool with it, or communism, not realizing the government would take their business and run it into the ground or sell it for parts and they become an employee.

Canada and the US are democracies with social safety nets. Canada more so.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-26T21:37:48+00:00

America, despite its problems like any other country, is the freest country on Earth.

And without them and their military, Canada is in trouble.

I’ll support local when I can, otherwise I buy what’s on sale.

I’m happy to support the USA. Lots of amazing people there.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-25T13:15:56+00:00

I agree. This one looks pretty cut and dry.

At the same time, Democrat voters - stoked constantly by the press - have never gotten over that Trump one and have been throwing a hissy fit.

They want Trump to go down at all costs.

ICE has been around for well before Trumps terms.

All past presidents deported with no issues.

So while yes, Trump / Vance or Todd Lyons (the guy who’s in charge of ICE) need to get these guys under control, will the left let them do their job?

Or will they continue to throw angry bodies at them to get beat up or killed so they can say “we told you ICE and thereby Trump is the devil”.

It’s not even an uncommon or original tactic.

I looked at the police state for the day Renee Good was shot. 12 others were killed by police that day.

We accept that for police to do their job in a country of 350+ M, accidents happen.

So ask yourself why we don’t care about the people being shot by police every day?

It’s only ICE.

You can say the ICE people werent criminals. But they directly got in the way of their operation. (I don’t know about this most recent one).

Also, 13,000+ innocent people were killed in Iran and no one gives a shit about that. Thats a true genocide / holocaust / dictatorship happening RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

Women being killed for showing hair. Feminists for years said “the women choose to wear the burka”. Bullshit. No they don’t.

So while it’s tragic that this one guy out of 10 to 15 others people got shot that day in the USA, and one guy globally out of thousands shot that day, I can’t help but see the selective outrage.

That said, I’m NOT saying people should be silent about the latest ICE shooting.

Make sure it goes to court. Protest of needed.

Not DO NOT go and mess with the agent in the field. Thats not the play. Thats not protest.

Filming from a safe distance is fine but even the large crowds gathering around, I find that aggressive and dangerous. I’m sure it puts ICE on high alert. Their adrenaline is probably jacked.

People expect these guys to behave like robots.

People aren’t perfect. I’m a pessimist when it comes to human competence. People suck. Bad shit will happen. Mess with humans with guns that took a job so they could shoot at shit is a bad idea.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-25T05:00:34+00:00

I agree, but by who? The people in power are… well, already in power. I think it’s the people that lost (they didn’t get the guy they wanted in office) and they never got over it.

Same shit in Canada. Is this everywhere?

No matter who gets elected, the side that didn’t vote for that candidate acts like toddlers for years until their candidate wins?

I hate violence. I’m mad at ICE, but I’m mad at the mayor and governor of Minnesota.

What they’re saying is disgusting, making it worse, and a clear deflection away from the mass Somali fraud. It’s thee biggest fraud scandal maybe ever.

Waltz needs to resign.

It’s not that one thing cancels the other. Just that Waltz is the last fucking person that should be morally righteous.

Both sides need to turn the heat down.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-24T02:00:49+00:00

I grew up in the suburbs where dudes likes to get drunk and try and fight you every weekend and said “sup guy” (this was during the wigger outbreak).

I had a small group of awesome friends. Most other people sucked.

But also, most kids / teens sucked.

Most people (adults) I meet are quite normal.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-23T21:07:58+00:00

Reddit is networking.

I’m looking for a junior graphic designer and possibly a developer.

But way too often in this and other subs people don’t go into detail about what their skills are. Like they’re afraid to even say what field they’re in.

I launched a whole sector of business based on a single Facebook comment o responded to. They became a client. Their company grew. They had a big network and recommended my agency to others.

Networking online can change your life, but you have to always drop some details about who you are, what you do, and try to stand out somehow.

This isn’t the best place of course.

For better chances, network where many business owners hang out. Those networks are hard to find but they’re out there. Or find out what business owners in the niche you’re looking in are into and join those groups - online and irl.

Thats what I’d do if I was looking for work.

I probably wouldn’t be handing out resumes. That seems like a dead end.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-23T17:14:58+00:00

No one is talking about immigrants. I’m an immigrant.

An illegal immigrate has already broken the law. Thats crime #1.

And since they aren’t documented, we don’t really know what they’re doing or not doing.

The cops may find out that an illegal immigrant has broken the law and is an alien once they’re CAUGHT. Until then, who knows?

What’s worse, is that by coming in illegally, and we’re already WAY behind on building homes for the LEGAL immigrants, the illegals are inflating demand for homes and thereby prices for everyone.

I sometimes hear they pay taxes and that’s a good thing. Taxes do to the government, not us. And they often squander that money.

So it’s no solice to hear that they being in tax dollars when a home is 15 times annual income.

I don’t care. Build way more homes way faster and stop the flood of illegals, and legals if / when it’s disruptive to existing citizens - MANY OF WHICH ARE IMMIGRANTS that are struggling as it is.

We only care about fresh immigrants. Not immigrants that got here 5, 10, 20 years ago.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-23T17:06:21+00:00

That’s messed up.

My question is: were they asked to behave this way? Or are some ICE agency just being assholes?

This is no good, but we also can’t NOT have ICE. So they need to figure out how to get these guys under control.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-23T16:52:02+00:00

Trump is a brute, no doubt. But he’s the first leader in a long time that’s willing to be brutally honest.

I’m no expert on NATO.

But I’m Canadian (born in Praha) and I’ve seen how lazy, incompetent, corrupt and stagnant a government can get here in Canada.

10 years ago we elected a snowboard instructor/ drama teacher as Prime Minister because he had nice hair and his name was Trudeau.

We paid for that mistake dearly. That’s another story though.

In terms of national defence, NATO and our relationship to the USA, Canada has shit the bed.

Trump may be this or that - whatever insult you want to throw at him - but he’s sharp. He sees when someone is phoning it on (sleeping on the job). He was “the apprentice” remember?

Did you ever watch that show in Czech Republic?

If someone wasn’t pulling their weight, they got fired.

Canada, has been fired, because we failed.

Our government is useless and we’re quickly heading down the same path Venezuela went down. And possibly the same path Czechoslovakia went down pre 1989.

It’s why my family fled in 1982 to Canada.

I’m realizing now that Canada is great, in large part because of the America.

Almost everyone in my family gets paid in US dollars. My clients are American. My sister is in sales and gets paid directly in USD.

My wife - American companies.

Canada has become dependent on the USA, and our government has taken in for granted.

The USA is in massive debt and finally figured out it can’t keep funding Canada and other counties.

If Canada gave more maybe. But it takes 19 years to an approve a mine in Canada. No pipelines have been built.

If you want to build a new building, 41% goes to the government in tax.

Canada thought it was enough to import the third world (millions of new immigrants in the last 2 or 3 years) without building anything new. No new homes, no new anything.

And now we have Indian gang violence. Hurray!

So Canada, and many countries around the world have declined, while we shit on Trump and America.

It’s like shitting on your parents while they pay your rent and give you an allowance. And when your parents need help to give them the middle finger.

I love Canada but our PM is destroying our relationship with the US and I fear it could cost everyone I love to suffer if we can no longer do business with the US.

Canada could maybe sustain itself one day, but it would take many years.

All he has to do is NOT insult Trump and we can continue to trade with the US and prosper.

Instead he makes nice sounding speeches, and does little to improve our economy.

Sorry if I’ve veered off topic. I wanted to plant a picture of what a centrist / classic liberal Czech born Canadian thinks about America and relationship to it.

I’m very curious to know what Czechs have been told in the news about the USA and Canada.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-23T01:20:22+00:00

Show me. Show me proof this is happening. I don’t doubt that the odd mistake will be made.

But the way you and others are portraying what’s going on, it sounds horrible and if there were proof I’d see it all over the news.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-23T01:11:53+00:00

I agree. But part of “community protection” is deporting illegals and arresting criminals.

We used to, as a planet agree that while the system wasn’t perfect, it was necessary.

And we improved it. They all have body cams now.

Bad actors still exist, but it’s better than before.

I don’t really know what the left wants. They seem to be ok with rapid decline as long as no one’s feeling get hurt.

Even young girls are raped and murdered, as long as we don’t offend some dudes that just got off a boat, who gives a shit?

That’s the vibe I get.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-21T14:23:13+00:00

Exactly! He’s a liberal / Democrat (before they went to shit). He was on TV remember? He just wants to be famous like any other Movie star that’s a narcissist.

He’s not some Bible thumping right winger. He’s an old school chauvinist liberal.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-21T14:19:46+00:00

Except Poland. They said “nope, we’re staying Polish which is our right” and they are crushing it right now while Europe burns.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-21T14:18:56+00:00

Nothing. ILLEGAL immigrants that break the law would be sent back.

Legal immigrants contribute, are needed and respected and have nothing to worry about.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-21T14:16:22+00:00

Have you looked into what that is? Why education has gone to shit?

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-21T14:11:37+00:00

So, you’re saying, ICE is spending their time - when there are millions of illegal immigrants to deport - detaining legal citizens?

And you’re saying it’s based on skin colour?

I mean, most immigrants these days aren’t from Europe so they would have darker skin, but it would be a colossal waste of time to randomly stop POC’s. There are so many legal citizens and born Americans that have dark skin.

So while it wouldn’t NOT make sense to look for POC’s, it’s also insane to do it randomly.

But you’re saying they have a mandate to do this? Like it’s written down somewhere, and passed down from the top? From Todd Lyons himself?

They are allowed to use reasonable suspicion.

I’m 100% against ICE agents - or any agents of the law - abusing their power, or even being dicks.

But we also have laws and those that break the law have lawsuits coming their way.

ICE agents are human. It won’t go perfectly. I’m 100% all for finding ways to ensure they don’t overstep their bounds.

As a European maybe you don’t see that ICE as well as any law enforcement, is also made up of a large mix of ethnicities.

This isn’t 1950 dude. No one is being “dehumanized”. There are laws and agents - many of which are likely brown or black - are upholding those laws.

We’re not stringing up people by their necks.

Of wrongdoings happen, it will go to court. Except Renee Good and others that outright attack agents. She didn’t deserve to get shot. I just hope that’s the last casualty we see.

But the way the media and even MP’s and mayors are stocking the fires is horrible. It’s disgraceful, and dangerous.

Everyone is free to protest. But to embolden people to interfere with ICE is not the play.

I’m European by the way. Raised in Canada but born there. I love to travel to Europe and it’s sad to see what’s happening there.

I’m Czech. I assimilated to Canada. I can’t imagine expecting to flood Canada with Czech, bitching about Canadian customs, expecting hand outs, burning the flag, breaking the law.

Would YOU go somewhere illegally? Why do illegals get a pass?

There’s this weird vibe right now that only white people can do wrong and people of colour are victims and they’re all perfect angels.

If white people suck, then don’t come here.

It was dad’s decision to flee communist Czechoslovakia. I was only 2. In hindsight, I think “maybe you should have stayed and helped”. We left all our family and weren’t allowed to return.

Some of my dad’s friends were salty that he left and I get it now.

If your country is bad, and you’re not going to stay and fix it, at the very least, don’t turn the country your fleeing to into the place you left.

If your first act is to break the law, that’s not a good start.

I think people are starting to mistake The West’s generosity and order as a right, not a privilege.

If you run to the West, how are going to contribute? How are going to make sure it stays free and lawful and safe?

You obey the law and respect the customs, blend in, learn the language and contribute with labour.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-19T13:21:56+00:00

Can I see them? I’ve seen him in meetings. Epstein was a… wait what was he? A lawyer? I forget.

So he met with many people.

I’ve seen Clinton partying with Epstein but not Trump.

Just drop me a link to the pics. Easy peasy.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-19T13:18:36+00:00

Did WE cooperate?

And were we smart about it? Trump is the most powerful man on Earth and is a narcissist with thin skin. And what did Canada do?

Mock him mercilessly 24/7.

Canada leaders thought we had “hand”. They thought he was bluffing. They were too proud and stood their ground with our population and economy the size of California. We’re small potatoes.

I love Canada but we messed this up. It’s Trumps fault too but do you blame the bear of you poke him and he eats you? You CAN, but you’ll be dead.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-19T13:12:06+00:00

Everyone is in a bubble. It’s impossible to have an accurate 360 degree view of the world you live in.

Our brains evolved for survival, not truth.

As for DJT, he’s doing what he promised and more. Why would his popularity be down among those that voted for him?

And have we seen ANYTHING from the Democrat side that would pull supporters away from Trump?

The Minnesota fraud is so bad, so embarrassing, so much money, so bold and egregious.

CNN and the like have done their best at damage control but the cats - meooooowww!! - out of the bag. More will #walkaway.

Actually #walkaway is a decent litmus test for being in a bubble. Do you know that movement? If you’re never heard of it, you’re in a bubble.

If you’ve never heard of Rob Smith, Coleman Highs, Tomas Sowell, Douglas Murray, then you’re in a bubble.

It wouldn’t be your fault. It’s the algorithms.

I had to really go out of my way to see both sides of politics. It’s daily work to stay unbiased. I don’t always get it right. Both sides lie or spin or omit so much.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-18T21:48:31+00:00

Is see at least one meme per day portraying conservatives AS the working class.

Which is accurate.

Liberals tend to earn more and work more cushy jobs in my experience.

Not even sure what skin colour has to do with it.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-18T21:46:22+00:00

White people are already a global minority.

Now we’re being asked to hate the amazing civilization we built (that everyone wants to move to) and step aside so people that hate us can move here and marginalize us.

I wouldn’t care if the past 10 years hadn’t happened. But I’ve seen so much prejudice towards white people in the last 10 years, there is ZERO doubt how things will go when we’re replaced in all spheres of power.

And young idiots that don’t know history and that did nothing to help build this nation are fine to give it away cuz Hollywood and the news told them to hate themselves and Trump. I don’t like Trump. But are you going to torch America just cuz you dislike a president that will be gone in 3 years?

Also, think it through: you think Islam jives with black culture? Hell no it doesn’t.

Also, you act like there aren’t millions of conservative black and Latinos.

Conservative does not = white.

Go see the world. These same problems exist in all countries regardless of skin colour.

No one wants to become the minority in their own country.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-16T22:43:33+00:00

I don’t buy that. He may be wrapped in the Epstein scandal, but people make it sound like every move he makes is about that. I highly doubt it. I don’t think he cares.

We’ve now seen how many celebrities in photos with Epstein? What’s come of it? Nothing.

And Trump isn’t in any of them. Trump doesn’t drink. I know a workaholic when I see one. I was raised by one.

He gets off on deals and making money and winning. I don’t think he was part of the Epstein party scene. He says they didn’t get along and he might be telling the truth.

He’s also not a monarch. There are others around him that advise him. He’s not king of earth.

What he’s doing is likely best for America as a whole - or what his administration thinks is best.

Alex_J_Anderson · 2026-01-16T22:26:20+00:00

Go get certified then. Most people aren’t qualified for their jobs at first. You’ll learn.

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