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Comment by justatdotin | Hacker News Reader

for me its the arms trade.

Daniel Ek pours spotify wealth into next gen miltech.

sometimes I worry that I don't know what music means to other people but I am certain that to me it is antithetical to war culture.

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I feel like Ek receives a disproportional amount of hate for this. You have all these American CEO's pouring their investments in the American war machine (Palantir, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, etc) and no one bats an eye.

Is it because this time it's going to a European company?

No, it's because Spotify is a consumer facing brand that people interact with daily and are aware of even if they don't use it. Also they're notorious for not paying artists well.

'LM are worse' is really not the strong vote of support you think it is.

More than two things can be utterly disgusting at the very same time!

Actually there are a whole lot of musicians who find pride in "punching nazis" so to speak, but you are entitled to your Russian sympathies.

ok I think I remember this one where disliking war means I side with whoever you think your enemy is today.

I'm not american and I'm not interested in your ideas about who to kill.

Practically nobody "likes" war. However, when facing adversaries like Putin who don't care for democracy, human life, human rights, agreements and contracts, who have no conviction beyond "might makes right", not ensuring clearly superior military capabilities ultimately means submitting to their plans of domination. Reflexively rejecting any kind of military investment is naïve and plays into the hands of the likes of Putin. It is no surprise that in the west, political parties and actors with proven ties to the Russian regime predominantly promote this faux-pacifist narrative, effectively inviting the fox into the chicken pen.

yes you've got me, I'm a russian agent trying to fool you into questioning the arms trade.

was it the accent?

I did not mean to imply that at all.

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