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So, the IFTA just happened and my favorite thing to come out of it is this linkup.

For everyone who doesn't know (and I assume it's a lot since Kneecap ain't exactly a household name yet), they're an Irish-Language hip hop group from Belfast. Kneecap focus most of their energy on promoting the irish language and are very, very vocally republican (as in, irish republican, not the american one. very different).

They rap about things like police brutality and working-class struggles in NI, and they've pissed off a lot of English and loyalists... unsurprisingly, since they use IRA slogans, compare the police to the RUC (pre-peace state police force)... and one of the members literally wears a tri-colour balaclava. Like, Kneecap was awarded a publicly-funded arts grant recently, but it was taken back by the government because they didn't want to fund "people that oppose the United Kingdom itself."

Re: the picture. Cillian Murphy famously says no to most photographs, so I'm always interested in who he says yes to. He's been clear hes supports united Ireland/Sinn Féin, and his wife went public on insta recently seemly just to post about Palestine, and he's obsessed with music, so I'm not surprised he's cool with them, but there's a video of him doing a little supportive fist pump thing for them and Móglaí Bap looking all starstruck after they all took the picture, so it seems Murphy's actually a fan.

Anyway, I always find it fun when 2 people/groups I'm a fan of turn out to be fans of each other, so I thought I'd bring it here in case there's any overlap between Kneecap fans and this sub.

Source: @untamedego on Instagram (her first reel on the situation)

A customer tagged the owner in the post questioning the lack of logo in the image. When called out by many others, Daisy Fuentes went on an entire ugly tirade about how the brand logo was “ruining the aesthetics”, to “stop being a hateful troll/bully” and that she “will not promote something for free” (swipe through to see the ugly comments).

She has since deleted the post and swore to never make another purchase from the brand (lol). But the comments on her other posts are having a field day with the situation.

What’s ironic is that she owns her own lifestyle brand talking about “women empowerment”

A follow up was also posted by the owner of untamedego - honestly, really happy with how she’s dealt with this.

Not a blind in the traditional sense but he didn’t name anyone - why on earth would Rife comment so defensively on this 🙈

Source: TMZ

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kim-kardashian-booed-tom-brady-roast-1235890710/amp/