It’s not a poor choice of words unless you are going out of your way to interpret it. The post literally talks about understanding and not agreeing. You have to bend over pretty backwards to claim that’s me endorsing his position at all.

Well you seem to have information that no one else has.

Do you just not understand what the word “understand” means?

I’m claiming no such thing. We agree Sheeran made the decision to try to stay neutral to protect his brand, right? Then we understand his decision. It doesn’t mean we agree with it.

Yeah but not the kind I like!

Easy, they did it so their ideals could someday be passed down to the Trump administration, ask me a tougher one.

Believe it or not, straight to jail. But based on everything I read about this specific situation that isn’t the case here, so I’m not sure where you’re going with this.

Exactly.

And it was the wrong decision. You are literally Paul Sr in the meme right now…

How is it a garbage take to say “I understand the reasoning behind a decision he made and it was the wrong decision”?

So in order to tell me I’m wrong you need to read into my actual statements and say they imply multiple things which I did not say and don’t agree with. I don’t blame him for being neutral, you can pick apart my wording all you want but I explained my exact feelings over and over again elsewhere in the thread, he wants to appeal to all people who like his music which is generally speaking what most celebrities do (aside from ones who get their celebrity status from culture wars). Understanding does not equal endorsing. It’s called cognitive empathy, I see his perspective and disagree with it. You can try to push that as somehow defending him all you want but that is you choosing to interpret my very exact specific words differently.

On the other side of this, the cliche of “Simple misunderstanding we could have resolved if one party hadn’t said “I don’t NEED to hear your explanation!” before storming off” can fuck right off and die.

Yes, and to be clear consenting adults paying/being paid for sex means fuck all to me, they should legalize it. Involving children? Straight to jail.

Yeah it’s probably for the best that you deleted this one, not your best work.

Lol, like it’s not all in writing in this thread. I think you misinterpreted what I said and cannot accept that and would rather go to this level of arguing than admit you were wrong about something. And I honestly hope you think about that and examine your response to all of this. Sheeran said something, I understand his reasoning and think he is wrong. It’s not a weakness to understand someone’s motives, you know.

About THIS SUBJECT. The one we are discussing in the post. Because he flat out said that was his reasoning. You keep moving the goal posts.

I literally said I disagreed with Sheeran, explain to me what level of being critical you expect from me?

That is not my position. I never said that and you are trying very hard not to admit that.

So your argument is he has a different opinion about 2 different things and I’m an asshole for disagreeing with one of them.