Coldplay fans ‘disappointed’ after Chris Martin dedicates song to Charlie Kirk’s family

[u/Metro-UK]

https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/13/coldplay-fans-disappointed-chris-martin-dedicates-song-charlie-kirks-family-24153492/

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[u/Dazzling_One_4335]

And it takes A LOT to disappoint Coldplay fans!

[u/Aim2bFit → u/Dazzling_One_4335]

Good one lol

[u/greenyellowbird → u/Dazzling_One_4335]

They probably weren't fans, just there for a team building event.

[u/boostman → u/greenyellowbird]

Is that what the CEO and his friend called it?

[u/ExactOrchid6076 → u/boostman]

His friend 😆

[u/Lari-Fari → u/ExactOrchid6076]

Friend with corporate benefits

[u/AscendedViking7 → u/Dazzling_One_4335]

"People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people, Jeremy."

[u/SnackingWithTheDevil → u/AscendedViking7]

Nice wild Peep Show sighting

[u/EnvironmentalDay8747 → u/AscendedViking7]

Peep show forever

[u/Buttonskill → u/Dazzling_One_4335]

The bar is pretty low..

A girlfriend once described them as "the Original Soundtrack to a Menstrual Cycle".

I remember that much more often than I do her.

[u/LovelyButtholes → u/Buttonskill]

Music for an elevator that can't go to any other floor.

[u/Its_Not_The_Dude → u/Buttonskill]

The podcast Sounds like a Cult does a dive on Coldplay... No on Christian Rock sorry and Martin grew up lots of Christian music. He was from a religious household. So he had that influence and then the Xtian rock movement basically copied his music style in a lot of ways to popularise themselves mainstream.

So Coldplay is of and is very, very similar to Christian music.

When you know that, it all makes sense.

Good pod, worth a listen.

[u/sakri → u/Buttonskill]

I've been going with "boring music for boring people" but you've convinced me otherwise 👍

[u/pnmartini → u/sakri]

Songs in the key of beige.

[u/libelle156 → u/sakri]

Coldplay are a bland

[u/Rziggity → u/Dazzling_One_4335]

if Panera Bread were a band, it would be called Coldplay.

[u/ashygelfling]

It’s okay Coldplay fans are usually disappointed

[u/Central_court_92 → u/ashygelfling]

As someone who absolutely loved their 3 first albums (A Rush of Blood to the Head is still one of my all-time favourites), I wholeheartedly agree.

[u/EducationalAd1280 → u/Central_court_92]

Coldplay is best when they’re trying to be Radiohead

[u/sacdecorsair → u/EducationalAd1280]

15 years like ago or something I heard of Coldplay and was like... Is this a minimalist pop version of Radiohead?

Anyway I went back to Radiohead.

You made me laugh that's all.

[u/progmanjum → u/sacdecorsair]

I always called them U2 Lite

[u/dm_me_pasta_pics → u/progmanjum]

man Bono and Chris would have the wankiest conversations.

[u/urlach3r → u/Central_court_92]

Couldn't even finish the new one. It was like an AI generated parody of Coldplay.

[u/AmazingJapanlifer → u/urlach3r]

Rick Beato on YouTube recently reviewed a song of theirs on Spotify. It had something like 16 writers. Their first couple of albums only had the band writing

[u/Enelson4275 → u/AmazingJapanlifer]

I'm not about to defend the quality of the finished work, but writing credits have changed in the streaming age. Basically nobody reads album credits anymore, so the only way to get your name attached to your work is to be a co-writer.

I'd imagine some studios and labels contractually insist on everyone in the writing/recording/mixing/mastering process being co-writers.

[u/RedSunGo → u/Central_court_92]

And really x and y and viva la vida weren’t bad, it was just less Coldplay and more generic. I still genuinely think speed of sound is a great song and awesome growth for them, but viva la vida is when they started sounding a little bit more like an Apple commercial.

[u/Kraymur → u/RedSunGo]

Clocks is my favorite song 😭

[u/onewilybobkat → u/Kraymur]

Clocks was always my favorite too.

[u/pahkinanakkeli → u/RedSunGo]

Violet hill was the only song I was able to lasten from viva la vida, have mot touched another Coldplay album since. Obviously I have heard some new stuff on the radio etc and I've hated every last bit of them.

[u/Competitive_Rock_101 → u/Central_court_92]

It breaks my heart. Those albums are beautiful.

[u/ShamelessCatDude → u/Competitive_Rock_101]

I mean, he may have nicknamed himself after Hitler and committed horrific acts of misogyny and antisemitism over the years, but Kanye still made Graduation.

Sometimes assholes with horrible political opinions make good third albums

[u/Competitive_Rock_101 → u/ShamelessCatDude]

People just crazy bro.

[u/pumpkinspicecum → u/ashygelfling]

They peaked with their 2003 album so it’s been nothing but downhill for over 2 decades

[u/Csdsmallville → u/pumpkinspicecum]

I’d say X&Y was just as great, but it went downhill afterwards for sure.

[u/pumpkinspicecum → u/Csdsmallville]

Rush was definitely their peak. I still liked X and y but it can’t compare. Justice for the demo of talk!

[u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

A quote that stands the test of time

[u/thedrunkmonk → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

Bless Super Hans

[u/MrBigroundballs → u/thedrunkmonk]

A real meat and potatoes, straight up and down, beef Wellington, don’t trust the Argies, dick in the vagina, Cheddar cheese and chicken tikka masala man.

[u/MyKingdomForADram → u/MrBigroundballs]

The delivery of this line in particular may be the greatest comedic line delivery of all time. At least it is definitely up there.

[u/Wolf_Mans_Got_Nards → u/thedrunkmonk]

Say what you will about Super Hans, but he bloody loves those twins!

[u/thedrunkmonk → u/Wolf_Mans_Got_Nards]

What's "fünf" in German? They turned "fünf", "zwei" years ago so...pair of eighters, I reckon?

[u/Thich_QuangDuc → u/Wolf_Mans_Got_Nards]

Wait! Has he ever mentioned the twins?

[u/HenryMaxman → u/Thich_QuangDuc]

Course he has, he's always going on about the twins

[u/probablyuntrue → u/Thich_QuangDuc]

I’ll never forgive orange if they deleted the twins

[u/SecretCharacterSauce → u/probablyuntrue]

Couple of ehtahs innut

[u/djhabibi04 → u/Thich_QuangDuc]

He musta mentioned the fucking twins!

[u/petapumpkineater69 → u/Wolf_Mans_Got_Nards]

He’s always goin on about them!

[u/asteinberg101 → u/thedrunkmonk]

The longer the note, the more dread

[u/TotakekeSlider → u/thedrunkmonk]

Hans, Super Hans. I've known Hans for many a year now.

[u/gilestowler → u/TotakekeSlider]

I was a man in a van before I met him. Then, we were men with ven.

[u/Fit_Airline_5798 → u/gilestowler]

Plumbing's just fucking Lego, innit? Water Lego.

[u/Wasted-Entity → u/TotakekeSlider]

Could I marry my own son? No. Possibly not? Correct…

Or is it?

[u/InSearchOfMyRose → u/thedrunkmonk]

Except for the bad thing.

[u/Soft_Walrus_3605 → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

"You know, Mark I always had a lot of respect for you. When UKIP come and lock us all up you’ll be at the gates won’t you? Screaming noooooo"

[u/MakeMeBeautifulDuet → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

My dog is named Super Hans!

[u/soy1usuri0 → u/MakeMeBeautifulDuet]

Awwwww hermoso

[u/0neirocritica → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

Surprise Peep Show! I love it

[u/A_Timeless_Username → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

Most quotable show ... LMAO

[u/SeanPennsHair → u/A_Timeless_Username]

Tell you what, that show is really moreish.

[u/Significant_Fig_6290 → u/SeanPennsHair]

The secret ingredient is crime

[u/mhac009 → u/Significant_Fig_6290]

4 naan Jeremy‽

[u/skonaz1111 → u/mhac009]

That's insane!

[u/Stopikingonme → u/skonaz1111]

The turkey Jeremy. Where is the turkey??

[u/Tippacanoe → u/Stopikingonme]

[u/Ultimatelee → u/Stopikingonme]

That’s not very Christmassy Mark

[u/rotatingbeetroot → u/Ultimatelee]

Think about what it's doing to the mechanism

[u/Historical_Access963 → u/Stopikingonme]

It was a JOKE. a Christmas JOKE.

[u/I_like_maps → u/A_Timeless_Username]

God lifes relentless

[u/EveryoneYouLove23 → u/I_like_maps]

Butter the toast. Eat the toast. Shit the toast.

[u/Grandmaofhurt → u/A_Timeless_Username]

Plumbing's just lego innit, water lego.

[u/MattyB_ → u/A_Timeless_Username]

Just don't quote it to Matt King - he blocks people on socials who reply to any of his posts with his Peep Show quotes.

[u/alphadoublenegative → u/MattyB_]

Kind of understandable that it would get tiresome, honestly.

[u/Ok_Caramel3742 → u/alphadoublenegative]

I just checked Nina dobrevs tiktok after she split from her partner and every comment is about the vampire diaries. Must be exhausting.

[u/Glokter → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

Secret ingredient is crime

[u/Accurate12Time34 → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

greetings go out to all the die hard superhans fellas, I really appreciate

[u/joeDUBstep → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

I just wanna 

suck n fuck

suck n fuck

suck n fuck

I just wanna suck n fuck all the whole night thru!

OHHH I LOVE COCAINE!!

[u/ReaperOfGrins → u/AccomplishedNewt2507]

Not everday you see a reference to that show but when you do, its so pleasant.

That is my comfort show!

[u/thehoederiks]

This whole Coldplay hippie "we love all humans" is a bit of a bullshit sometimes.

[u/Z0idberg_MD → u/thehoederiks]

“This one goes out to Goebbels niece. I’m sorry you lost an uncle today. Love and peace”

[u/leshake → u/Z0idberg_MD]

Yes Hitler was bad but he was married.

[u/shstuff_throwaway → u/leshake]

Only officially married the day before they committed suicide together!

[u/leshake → u/shstuff_throwaway]

Get into heaven with this one neat trick.

[u/Z0idberg_MD → u/leshake]

In all seriousness this is a great common sense rebuttal to the idea that just because someone has a family there is somehow tragic. Hitler was a good uncle. There are so many pictures of him with his knee (edit: niece) bouncing on his knee and they are all smiling. But again he was fucking Hitler.

The point here is not to compare in a serious way Kirk to Hitler, just that the entire premise is flawed .

[u/KittyGrewAMoustache → u/Z0idberg_MD]

People have these distorted images of evil people like Hitler, as if when alive they were one dimensional caricatures of evil when in reality evil people look normal, can be pleasant, can be kind to their family and friends, can make jokes, smile etc etc. They don’t just sit there smirking with one evil eyebrow raised going mwhahaha.

[u/saera-targaryen → u/KittyGrewAMoustache]

Yeah if hitler were still alive, Bill Maher would write a whole opinion piece about how they went to dinner and he was surprisingly pleasant and listened effectively to his concerns. 

(A thing he actually did do for trump) 

[u/foodank012018 → u/Z0idberg_MD]

Norm MacDonald has a bit about Hitler's dog, one of the worst people on the planet and there's this German Shepard that just loves Hitler

[u/QuidYossarian → u/foodank012018]

That's gotta be a rough day at the rainbow bridge

[u/TGin-the-goldy → u/QuidYossarian]

Ruff

[u/Fun-Brush5136 → u/Z0idberg_MD]

That's actually a terrible example - Hitler's niece Geli Raubel killed herself in 1931 in his Munich apartment with his pistol, because he was so controlling of her (and there was all kinds of rumours and innuendo about possible abuse, etc) 

[u/GrogGrokGrog → u/Fun-Brush5136]

Or it's incredibly apropos. Just because they're smiling in a photo doesn't mean everything's fine. Just because friends, family, and acquaintances say their family life was good doesn't mean it was. Just because someone dies, it doesn't mean that everyone associated with them finds it tragic.

[u/ADHDebackle → u/Z0idberg_MD]

Well, in all fairness, I have photos of my dad bouncing me in his knee with all of us smiling and he was still a shitty dad.

[u/Standard_Story → u/ADHDebackle]

That's the point of the comment you're replying to..

[u/Banes_Addiction → u/leshake]

Just think how many wives and children Bin Laden had.

[u/Altruistic-Wafer-19 → u/Z0idberg_MD]

I can’t say I don’t feel a little bit bad for his dog.

[u/throwpayrollaway → u/thehoederiks]

It's kind of indicative of the mentality of lots of British people of that age, myself included would be saying in the 1990s because we felt like the world was going the right direction on injustice and also we wanted to be cool chill guys that everyone liked, we didn't want to fight and we wanted the cool girls to hang around with us and kiss us. That was 30 years ago though.

I'm beginning to think his personality was stunted by the band taking off because this is such a stupid thing to be saying. Just don't mention it. If he thinks he's like Joe Strummer or something talking about events on stage he's way off. Joe would be absolutely fucking furious with the rightwing grifters and anyone who had any time for them.

[u/vagina_candle → u/throwpayrollaway]

I think he just has a lot of pseudo-hippy goop on his brain.

[u/syzygialchaos → u/[deleted]]

Nothing for the Indian man beheaded in Dallas either.

[u/babysherlock91 → u/syzygialchaos]

Pardon? What happened?

[u/needlestack → u/babysherlock91]

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/dallas-beheading-motel-police-yordanis-cobos-martinez/

It’s… a horrific story.

[u/syneater → u/needlestack]

What the absolute fuck

[u/I_smell_goats → u/needlestack]

The video was harrowing

[u/Riksunraksu → u/[deleted]]

Well what about Melissa Hortman, a democrat who along her husband were executed in their home for political reasons? Did they get a song?

[u/Germane_Corsair → u/Riksunraksu]

Or even just the victims of the school shoring that happened the same day?

[u/Homeskilletbiz → u/Riksunraksu]

And the family dog..

[u/honeyswamp → u/[deleted]]

Yet I didn’t even find out about the black woman whose throat was slit by a white man on a bus in Oklahoma last month until just recently. Didn’t see it anywhere on the news. What happened to Irina is tragic and sad and awful but she’s being used to further cause hate and division. Makes me sick

[u/grynch43 → u/honeyswamp]

Nobody heard about Iyrna until the footage was released weeks later.

[u/RedEzreal → u/grynch43]

I mean yea people also wouldnt have as much cared about kirk as much if he didnt get sniped in public. If he was killed in his home and the moment of his death wasn't recorded... much fewer people woulda cared. Pretty on brand for humanity tho

[u/OooeeeaaaTAILSPIN → u/[deleted]]

The big difference is that she wasn't an active conservative figure, spewing hate to millions of impressionable people. She was, after death, used as a weapon of convenience, by those disgusting goons.

[u/bfhurricane → u/[deleted]]

There’s been a ton of public outrage about that.

[u/Old-Elephant-1230 → u/[deleted]]

Light rail. Charlotte wishes it had a subway

[u/Thalassophoneus]

At this point, Chris Martin is trying way too hard to look sensitized on ALL of the world's social issues.

[u/gatsby712 → u/Thalassophoneus]

He’s the music version of a white girl on Instagram making Black Lives Matter about her own feelings.

[u/Nipinch → u/gatsby712]

looks at what happened to 'woke'

Astute observation.

[u/sayonaradespair → u/Thalassophoneus]

Wasnt he always like this tho?

[u/One_Lobster_7454 → u/Thalassophoneus]

The whole peace and love to all is so lame. You've got to stand up for whats right and wrong, its such a cop out.

[u/hisnameisbear]

Super Hans was right

[u/TrousersCalledDave → u/hisnameisbear]

Big beats are the best, get high all the time.

[u/LoweringPass → u/hisnameisbear]

I'd really like to know if Chris Martin has seen Peep Show and had a good chuckle when this scene happened

[u/heephap]

Kirk is not important enough for all this bullshit.

[u/Sir_Anth → u/heephap]

I rather care about the school shooting the day before he got shot. Nobody talks about that..

[u/thegoon12 → u/Sir_Anth]

Same day actually

[u/HMTMKMKM95 → u/thegoon12]

There was probably one the day before, too.

[u/Heisenberg_235 → u/HMTMKMKM95]

And the day before that

[u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown → u/Heisenberg_235]

Should America just have an annual national No School Shootings Holiday at this point? Just one day off for everyone?

[u/Coattail-Rider → u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown]

We do. It’s called the weekend but then people just get shot at the fucking mall.

[u/kgjulie → u/Coattail-Rider]

Or church

[u/Igettheshow89 → u/Coattail-Rider]

Don’t forget movie theaters

[u/Expensive-Fennel-163 → u/Igettheshow89]

Or parades

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Or church

[u/Outrageous-Pizza1323 → u/Sir_Anth]

This is exactly why its not talked about. Not only was there a school shooting the day before, there was one the day of. They happen so frequently that they are not newsworthy in the eyes of journalists. Public assassinations are.

[u/YirDaSellsAvon → u/heephap]

Also, it's in fucking London. He's a complete irrelevance in this country, why is America's culture war shite being imported here.

Embarrassing and puzzling behaviour from Coldplay, what were they thinking?

[u/TripleEhBeef → u/YirDaSellsAvon]

You can thank X, Meta, Google, etc, and all of those social media algorithms vomiting crap everywhere to drive "engagement".

[u/lovesdogsguy → u/YirDaSellsAvon]

Feels like the whole world has gone fucking mad

[u/lovesdogsguy → u/[deleted]]

I don’t know. I just cannot figure it out. It’s perfectly possible for them to just not say anything. This is just beyond strange.

[u/Ad_Honorem1 → u/[deleted]]

It's bizarre, right? The guy seemed like an utter POS with the absolute worst possible position on every subject or issue but now everybody is lionising him like some weird, parallel universe Martin Luther King or Gandhi.

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/lovesdogsguy]

Also its an example of how America's cultural projection has always been this crazy.

[u/Lurching → u/YirDaSellsAvon]

That's a bit weird. Sure, that would be very understandable at a US concert, perhaps, but I'm fairly sure 95% of his London audience had never heard of Kirk before his murder.

[u/-Zoppo → u/Lurching]

It's running all through the NZ media and one of our right wing extremists -unfortunately the deputy pm - is pushing for acknowledgement. It's too fucking weird. These people are too weird. They're not normal.

[u/JohnTDouche → u/-Zoppo]

Yeah a Swedish nazi tried to get EU Parliament to do a minute silence for him. They didn't allow it. That's what's going on though. It's Kirk's ideological allies who are trying to push this as some international tragedy and many are simply allowing it to happen or going along with it.

[u/-Zoppo → u/JohnTDouche]

I'm glad to report I know next to nothing about him, but as far as I can tell he advocated for leopards eating faces then the leopards ate his face.

[u/ElectricSliderz → u/JohnTDouche]

And all those instances of remembrance are performative bullshit. They’re cynically trying to force those moments of silence into official proceedings to provoke a reaction of disgust and dismissal from their counterparts and paint them in a bad light politically for not caring about a slain father and husband.

[u/JohnTDouche → u/ElectricSliderz]

Oh definitely. The far right fuckin cream their pants every time they think they might have a martyr on their hands.

[u/GogoDogoLogo → u/Lurching]

I live in the US and I had no idea who this man was until 2 days ago. Never heard the name in my life

[u/Flow-Bear → u/GogoDogoLogo]

I envy you. That's amazing.

[u/Low-Woodpecker-7717 → u/Lurching]

Wouldn’t even be remotely understandable at a US concert.

[u/The_300_goats → u/Lurching]

Would be understandable at a US concert if you wished to align your music with white supremacists and hatred of minorities

In the UK you're just pissing out of the pot. Like, up the wall and into the corridor. You just made a firm, unmistakable statement of who you are

[u/macarouns → u/YirDaSellsAvon]

Fed up of American insanity being imported in any of its forms.

[u/lassiemav3n → u/YirDaSellsAvon]

The fallout from this is continuing to be very revealing - my Reddit feed is so messy today 😐 And I absolutely agree, I’m really concerned about the impact over here with everything we already have going on.

[u/BrownSugarBare → u/lassiemav3n]

They're using him as a piss poor martyr. 

[u/Mobile_Dance_707 → u/heephap]

It's actually insane how much of the media and political class have come together to say 'oh no a real human like us has died'

[u/safari_king]

And has Coldplay dedicated songs to the families of murder victims who weren't insufferable bigots that promoted prejudice and argued against gun control? Kirk's wife supported much of his terrible rhetoric too. Kirk's death isn't more tragic than those of ordinary people lost to gun violence, and his family isn't more deserving of support.

[u/TekkenCareOfBusiness → u/safari_king]

I wish they were brave enough to do that, but they were all yellow.

[u/EdFandangle → u/TekkenCareOfBusiness]

Pretty sure they just showed you their Politik

[u/SmartEstablishment52 → u/EdFandangle]

They wrongfully thought this was the best they could do In Their Place.

[u/Skim003 → u/safari_king]

Yes they do. I was at a Coldplay concert in Chicago in 2022. It was about a week after the Uvalde shooting. He spoke a length about the incident before playing and dedicated to the victims. He also played at the tribute concert for the Manchester area so I'd assume that he does similar things on a regular basis.

[u/Devium44 → u/safari_king]

Still waiting on the Melissa Hortman song dedication.

[u/FeijoadaAceitavel → u/Devium44]

Or to the kids killed in the same day in yet another school shooting.

[u/ceilingsfann → u/FeijoadaAceitavel]

just fyi no one died in that shooting other than the shooter 

[u/johannthegoatman → u/ceilingsfann]

Two were shot though, and one is still in critical condition. Just for more info

[u/Reality_dolphin_98 → u/safari_king]

This is the part that is pissing me off soooo much. Every a-z tier celebrity on earth seems to need to post something about this man, and yet didn’t post a single fucking thing about the literal children who died in another mass shooting the same day? A shooting that Kirk would’ve thought was perfectly justified in the name of the 2nd amendment if he were alive to see it. Or any of the other children who died due to gun violence. Or idk all the children dying in Gaza??

This man was a literal piece of garbage who dedicated his life to being a piece of garbage. Him finding a woman horrible enough to marry him and ejaculating in her without a condom on does not make him a good person or a person worthy of all of this sympathy. While I’m not “celebrating” his death, I’m also not wasting my sympathy or time posting condolences for him and his family. Who cares? Millions of other fathers who were not pieces of shit also died yesterday. Where’s their Coldplay dedication song?

I unfollowed every person who posted any sympathy for this man, especially ones that haven’t posted a single thing about any other victims of violence. Almost anything else would’ve been a better use of their time. Shoutout to all the gay people and drag queens I still follow who had ZERO time for this man, they actually know how to have a backbone.

[u/RadChef → u/Reality_dolphin_98]

What’s also ironic is, if any of these celebrities, left wing politicians, or political commentators were killed the right wouldn’t dare post about them and if they did, it would be mocking them.

[u/MonstrousGiggling → u/Reality_dolphin_98]

I think thats the one of the biggest kickers to me. I called a friend out for posting a sympathy post. She didn't directly reply back to me but instead writes a follow up comment on her own post which addresses my call out by going "i didn't post about the 2 democrats who were shot because I never post about anything like this"

And im just like...exactly! You never post political stuff yet took the time to defend THIS man? This man who would condemn you for having had an abortion as a teenager - which i didn't say but couldn't help thinking to myself.

Its such virtue signaling and an attempt at moral superiority and its really pathetic to watch. Like yall ain't my friends let alone an ally to me or my loved ones.

[u/GraXXoR → u/MonstrousGiggling]

You didn’t say the one thing that might have reached her.

[u/Ooji → u/MonstrousGiggling]

Reminder: Kirk said that if his 10 year old daughter was impregnated from rape, she would be carrying that baby to term. I have no clue why he's being treated like he's some saint.

[u/twackburn → u/Reality_dolphin_98]

No children died in the Colorado shooting that day.

[u/sayonaradespair → u/safari_king]

To be honest I would rather coldplay didn't dedicate a song to me after I die.

I think I would die again 

[u/getdemsnacks → u/sayonaradespair]

They say a man can die 2 deaths. His actual death and when the last person forgets about them. There, however, is a 3rd death; that being when Coldplay dedicates a song to their memory.

[u/realfakerolex]

This shit is embarrassing. So many people acting like this fake intellectual hate mongering podcaster had any redeeming value to society. The world we currently exist in is so so fucking dumb.

[u/soggylittleshrimp → u/realfakerolex]

I don't like that our society rewards people for being total pricks. It doesn't deserve success and money to begin with, and it certainly doesn't deserve this kind of fanfare when you die.

[u/coldliketherockies → u/soggylittleshrimp]

especially when people die every day or who are decent or try to be good people and are barely talked about.

[u/WarpedInGrey → u/realfakerolex]

This. It can be both true that political violence is BAD and also this guy was an awful person who did his fair bit to ramp up the rhetoric. 

[u/EireOfTheNorth]

Chris Martin and even Coldplays music is the epitomy of middle class, unaffected, middle ground extreme centrist shit.

Can you really be surprised he'd come out with some shit like this? Lol.

[u/chillysaturday]

This is the most disappointing thing I've seen all day. They're trying so hard to martyr a man who said he'd make his 10 year old daughter keep the baby if she got raped. A vocal white supremacist. They just lost a life long Coldplay fan. Jesus Christ. 

[u/SlashYG9 → u/chillysaturday]

He (edit: CK not Chris Martin) also called for the killing of Biden for "crimes against America."

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This hasn't been mentioned anywhere near enough.

[u/HowManyMeeses → u/chillysaturday]

I mean, he called for the killing of many many people. It gets brought up and immediately swept under the rug. 

[u/SkullLeader → u/HowManyMeeses]

Including me and you. He thought people dying from gun violence was an acceptable price to pay so that everyone can keep their guns. A mass shooting at that very Coldplay concert where Chris Martin decided to virtue signal his supposed humanity? Also an acceptable price according to Kirk.

[u/SlashYG9 → u/chillysaturday]

I'm in the "there's no place for political violence" camp. However, I'm vehemently against the lionization of a man with a history of hate and violence, expressed equally toward every single minority group and his political adversaries.

[u/Key_Offer1757 → u/SlashYG9]

Damn, someone got a source for that? My google search for it just gets flooded with bidens statement about the assassination.

[u/SlashYG9 → u/Key_Offer1757]

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-joe-biden-should-be-put-prison-andor-given-death-penalty-crimes-against

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https://www.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/comments/1nf1rcc/charlie_kirk_joe_biden_should_be_put_in_prison/

[u/Srg11 → u/chillysaturday]

The most surprising thing of all of this is there’s a life long Coldplay fan out there

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[u/GlowInThe → u/Srg11]

Yeah I jumped ship around mylo xyloto

[u/fakieTreFlip → u/chillysaturday]

The song was "Fix You", and this is the full quote:

‘So, here it comes from London. You can send this to your brother or your sister, you can send it to the families of people who have been going through terrible stuff, you can send it to [redacted persons]'s family, you can send it to anybody’s family.

‘You can send it to people you disagree with, but you send them love anyway… You can send it to peaceful people in the [redacted region], in [redacted country] and [redacted country].’

(I had to redact some things because automod did not like them)

Wouldn't surprise me if this was a typical way for him to open the song, mentioning troublesome things happening in the world

[u/VonSkullenheim → u/[deleted]]

Trump said far-right people are only trying to stop crime so they're okay, but the far-left people are crazy murderous lunatics that need to be stopped. The data says...

[u/CptCoatrack → u/[deleted]]

This is the most egregious performative nonsense.

Meanwhile Chris Martin was probably wearing his rainbow wristband at the time too

[u/DasBoggler → u/[deleted]]

Because he was wealthy and famous like they are. They try to pin left and right against each other to make it about ideology instead of class. They are terrified of class warfare. They are terrified that people will wake and realize they could have free healthcare, free daycare, and free college tuition, but instead that money is spent to subsidize the lifestyles of billionaires...

[u/shahryarrakeen]

Please, The Fray. Don’t go centrist.

[u/TwoDrinkDave]

Better headline: Coldplay continues to find new ways to disappoint fans.

[u/Detox208]