The SBA's SVOG grants were intended for struggling small artists. But big stars like Post Malone and Chris Brown got $200M in pandemic ​r​elief funds.

The SBA’s SVOG grants were intended for struggling small artists. But big stars like Post Malone and Chris Brown got $200M in pandemic ​r​elief funds.

    • TheMage@lemmy.world
      340·
      1 year ago

      Sure am. Why? Do you really think all the BS we endured with the Covid mitigation was worth it? Pretty clear it certainly wasn’t. People losing their jobs due to not getting the “Fauci Ouchy”? Shutting down small businesses while Home Depot and Wally World stayed open all day? Kids sitting home doing nothing for two years versus being in school where they belong so they can develop and learn? Telling us that we can only have six people over for thanksgiving ?

      Yeah, no.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
        33·
        1 year ago

        They’re never going to listen. They genuinely don’t think what they did was wrong and they don’t see the nightmarish consequences of their actions, including the rise of Ron Desantis and the massive uptick of violent crime, provoking the right wing to take revenge by banning abortion and revealing the massive extent of regulatory capture they’ve engaged in for the past 50 years, and now we’re on the brink of a civil war.

        They’re not listening because all they cared about was limiting their exposure to covid at any cost, even their own families, and they don’t want to consider that what they did is wrong.

        And they’re not going to ever be convinced to listen or care because now it’s a partisan issue.

        I am just so, so deeply disappointed in humanity because of this fucking decade. 🤦🤦🤦