Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival (variety.com)

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[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago

HWR take donations from Ford and Bill Gates fundation. The Gates fundation gave grant to Technion an israeli research centre involving in military research. Ford also build components for Israel military vehicule

[-] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Funny how hypocracy is not an issue when you add another 0 to the donation. I doubt Aziz would be donating more than five figures.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

Lol. "You can't buy forgiveness. We don't accept your blood money. Live with your choices, you sellout fucks."

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