🎧 spotify ceo daniel ek gave $793 million 💰 to make killing machines ☠️

imagine personally paying $793 million to build killing machines.

mind boggling.

the reality is we are all complicit.

let me unwrap this.

i did not remove my music from spotify three years ago when ceo daniel ek gave helsing $99 million to build killing machines.

nor did i remove my music from spotify three months ago when daniel gave helsing another $694 million to build killing machines.

fifty two percent of my earnings came from spotify.

i fund killing machines.

you probably do too.

ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of artists are sleeping fine without so much as a watermelon emoji. the contrast with a few years prior when omnisexual antifa squatters reached across the aisle to far right fox news leather to rightfully support ukraine is enough to make you reconsider the simulation hypothesis.

i finally quit spotify the other week. three years and three months.

i would love to tell you that sending the email to my record label was a no brainer or that i felt virtuous after sending it.

i felt pissed off.

what next.

am i also going to quit youtube because they erased seven hundred videos documenting the genocide. am i going to stop googling because they allowed israel to buy ads that lie. actually i did stop googling years ago because it is garbage.

but i still download from github even though it is owned by microsoft which profits from the genocide.

i still post on instagram. though admittedly if it did not feel like i was holding the phone for two years and on the other end was endless screaming and bombing and if i did not also feel a responsibility to at the bare minimum bear witness then i would have left by now.

i pause for a second to ask if i should tap x as soon as little snitch notifies me that a site is connecting to amazon web services because they profit from the genocide.

you too apple. i see you in the mirror of my palm. five year olds literally dying trying to find you shiny rocks.

there are some things in life that appear to be absolutely true. like the one that says your one vote does not matter.

i think we have a crisis of imagination.

exiting a system of horror is about saving yourself not others.