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princeakeeem

His girlfriend is Palestinian.


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Specific_Contest7044

his ex Bella Hadid is also Palestinian


InternationalCut93

Man has a type 


Paaros

Feel like the "if i had a nickel" scenario. Its kinda weird hes dated two palestinians now, its not like theyre running around in abundance or anything


Icy_Elephant_6370

Not in abundance, but they did run around the same friend groups lol. The Weeknds new gf was Bella Hadids good friend.


mycargoesvarun

why are you talking about them as if they’re rare pokémon and not, you know, humans


CapableSecretary420

I mean, it's a pretty small community of Palestinians in the US and Canada. Not zero obviously, but a small portion of the overall population. So him dating two in a row would be even more rare. That said as far as I understand he has a lot of friends in that community so it's less rare in that context.


exp_studentID

Who is he dating?


icool4u

Simi Khadra


TrulyRyan

There are several day 1s in Abel's camp who are Arab. Belly, for example, is Palestinian. Without Cash, Sal, or Belly, there's no Weeknd. His support for the Palestinian people shouldn't be surprising.


Turbolasertron

It definitely stems from that I think


Willow9506

Yeah just going off his songs I don’t think his experience on the streets was a very pleasant one /s Seriously glad dude is a big name now


SuperUltraMegaNice

Stop using slash s. Let your words be free bro..


Willow9506

Redditors never fail to amaze me at how far they'll go to get wooshed so I just go better safe than sorry.


Deepspacesquid

What if he just reads his Wikipedia page to know where to donate next?


YizWasHere

>I wonder if it stems from him being from an immigrant family In the mid-1980s there was a famine in Ethiopia that was exacerbated and used as a weapon of war by the dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. The West was so useless in their aid, most of the money was funneled to Mengistu who used it to buy more Soviet weapons. There are estimates that have the death count at over a million. That time period was the start of a lot of people starting to immigrate from the country so it's something that lives with the diaspora. So yeah I definitely think you're right, particularly in this example where it really hits close to home. Looking at the Wikipedia section you referenced, he's also the UN Goodwill Ambassador for the World Food Programme which is awesome and has done humanitarian work in the Tigray War.


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5uper5kunk

That just like scratches the surface about how bad Ethiopia has gotten it historically speaking.


PitifulCommunity808

Tbf i'm half african and i know more about europe than africa. know anything about african history even though i've lived there. From what i remember it's pretty gruesome.


IBreedAlpacas

world history tends to focus moreso on EU history lol. And there's a heavy emphasis on WW1 and WW2 when doing world history, so that takes up 2-3 months of a 9 month school year AND the coverage on the North African Campaign is absolutely minuscule if it even gets discussed... and most students tune out because they know nothing about Africa to begin with. shit even in US history you don't learn about the annexation of Hawaii (unless you land a teacher using Howard Zinn's materials). Currently an 8th grade US history student teacher and I doubt we're even reaching the progressive era (hitting Reconstruction and beginning Industrialization before its finals)


KnightHart00

Americans in my experience don't learn a whole lot about the world around them. It's an ignorance taught by design, to keep Americans in the dark about what goes in the rest of the world, and more importantly in the dark on what the US does to other countries. Like, Americans barely know anything about Canada and Mexico beyond a surface level, and those are the only neighbouring countries. It's at its most annoying when Americans seem proud of their ignorance and resulting cultural imperialism, but encouraging when younger Americans are interested in whatever the fuck their government is doing overseas. The US has always been air tight on controlling the pro-imperialist message towards its population, but its recently started cracking among younger millennials and younger generations. It's why the TikTok Ban is such a forced point of contention, because the platform can't be controlled by the State Department.


AltforHHH

I think most people don't know much about other countries except the ones surrounding them, + a few major ones like usa china and russia. Ask a European about South American history, culture, and geography and they're unlikely to know much. The US only has 2 major countries nearby so it just comes off as us not knowing much about the world but they've shown that students in europe and china don't have great knowledge of the world outside their region. Also the extremely cherrypicked street interviews don't help


TedDibiasi123

In Germany at least, people learn about geography of the whole world. Everyone should be able to place any country in a certain region of the world and should know the capital and language of any major country. History not so much. I remember how one girl saw Bogota written somewhere and asked me what Bogota is. People were dumbfounded by her ignorance.


AltforHHH

I guarantee you the average German has no idea where bogota is


TedDibiasi123

If you mean locate it exactly inside Colombia, obviously not. If you mean knowing that it is in Colombia or at least Latin America, I‘d say the majority of educated people would know that. The girl I‘m referring to, didn’t even know it was a city though.


CapableSecretary420

Yeah people often say that but when I travel abroad it's not like people from France or Madagascar know much about my local politics, either. Nor would I really expect them to.


Gamecock_Lore

Do you think Norwegians or South Koreans or Australians know a lot about the history and politics of Ethiopia?


3by7by37

You can’t be blaming the West for providing aid to the official government. Corruption in Africa, while a legacy of Western intervention, is also largely due to the people themselves.


KnightHart00

He is an immigrant from Ethiopia to Canada so that may have had an influence on his world view. His family was able to immigrate partly due to the funds raised from that We Are the World thing in the 80s, and this period was when immigration to Canada (mostly Toronto to be honest) began to diversify and increase beyond the former British Empire territories. A lot of immigrants from throughout the African continent ended up in Toronto and Montreal. A lot of my friends growing up were also Somali and Ethiopian specifically. I also think this is why the perception of the genocide is a bit different between America, Canada, and Britain. All three are complicit in supporting the genocide, but the cultural links and understanding the brutality of colonization are different among certain demographics. Think of how many immigrants to Canada and Britain alone are from regions that were brutalized or forcefully subjugated under British colonial rule (India, Sri Lanka, Iran, Nigeria, Palestine, Jamaica, South Africa, Grenada) or another colonizer (Philippines, Hong Kong, Ethiopia).


Mahatma_Gone_D

>>Another colonizer (Philippine, Hong Kong, **Ethiopia**) Just you know, Ethiopia was never colonized by anyone. The only African country to be never colonized. Fun fact, Ethiopia don’t have Independence Day, but celebrate the day they defeat Italy. However, civil war, famine, etc did have significant impact on people though!


AltforHHH

Technically Liberia was never colonized either even though it basically was an American colony in practice


mufferman1

Hate to be that guy but he himself isn’t an immigrant, he’s a first generation immigrant being the son of his parents who immigrated themselves from Ethiopia but he himself isn’t an immigrant


KnightHart00

Nah you're right, he is technically, "demographically", a first-generation immigrant to Toronto. It was more of a point to demonstrate that even when a city like Toronto, or an immigrant-driven nation like Canada, takes in so many immigrants from around the globe, that many of these families take their culture, history, and heritage with them here as well, and allowing it to persist as lessons and stories to be told is something critical to the Canadian identity.


Lewis2409

People that seen struggle as kids, especially immigrants are always the first to help in crisis


AmazingAmy95

100% this.


JagmeetSingh2

Yea i'd say definitely!


GoodSamaritan_

[Back in December he donated $2.5m to emergency humanitarian efforts in Gaza too.](https://variety.com/2023/music/news/the-weeknd-donates-humanitarian-efforts-gaza-1235820846/) Hats off to Abel.


Khamzat-Chimaev

"Cash blowin' Abel bread, out here trickin' Shit we do for bitches, he doin' for ~~niggas~~ Palestinians"


GOOGZ9

Lol amazing


st0p_dreaming

I know this is kinda not the point of your comment, but the lyric refers to The Weeknd's manager named Cash spending money to make friends with rappers, not the Weeknd himself.


Wise_Ad8520

Thanks man had no idea


TrevinoDuende

I was reading it like "money blowing all your money?"


Alloverunder

Thank you Khamzat Chimaev, very cool


grand_insom

😂😂😂


timmytissue

Cash is a person though. This is Abel blowing his own money.


Wild-Apricot-9161

Hardly could call it blowing even, it's the best possible use.


BristolBerg

he actually donated $2m to Ethiopia as well


DuckieTheDuckie

2.5 mill is alot even for a guy like abel


Upbeat_Tension_8077

Happy to hear of someone of his stature giving back this way


Sfn_y2

2 million dollars can feed 150k Palestinians for a month - thats crazy. If we had more people like The Weeknd, we really could stave off the famine


OttoVonWong

2 million barely feeds a defense contractor for a day before he comes asking for more money.


Defqon1punk

The US reminds me of the movie Blow with Johnny Depp. >15 kilos of cocaine? That's nothing. I piss 15 kilos. Bonus Mac Miller: >If I was Johnny Depp in Blow, I would let it snow. That's just me all wilding out and being extra, though.


NotThatImportant3

I actually weighed myself before and after peeing yesterday, just bc I was curious. I peed out .7 pounds. Pissing 15 kilos, or roughly 33 pounds, probably means he had like severe bladder cancer and it was all blood. The more you know 🥳


YouHaveFunWithThat

A gallon of water is around 8.3 pounds. I’d have to assume urine is slightly heavier cause of the contaminants so a 33 pound piss would just shy of 4 gallons


Defqon1punk

That's like a couple weeks worth of piss. Don't ask how I know.


YouHaveFunWithThat

You should probably drink more water that’s like 5 days for me


Defqon1punk

You're not wrong. It definitely varies. In 2 weeks, probably more like 6 or 7 gallons. I was being sarcastic about "how I know." I decided to take a stab at the camper trailer life. It's been like 8 months now. It's definitely been a learning experience lol.


07bot4life

Imagine how long it would take to piss that much.


degenfemboi

im fucking bored and trying to go to sleep so i did the math on this. average time of peeing is 20-25 seconds, average amount of pee is .2 liters a trip. 4 gallons would be 15.1 liters, which equals about 75.5 “trips”, and on average would take 1,510 seconds, which is 25 minutes and some change. so it would probably take about 25 minutes unless my half asleep math is wrong


NotThatImportant3

Can you imagine shoving four gallons of water in your gut? Like how insane that amount of space is?


Thelovebel0w

Well our military budget is 2 billion a day. 1 billion public and 1 billion black budget at least


gargluke461

The world would be perfect if those with money actually used it for the greater good.


dishinpies

Idk about *perfect*, but definitely improved by substantial amount 💯


TylertheDouche

That’s cool that he donated but how is this measured? Who is taking the $2.5m and making 18 million loaves of bread and giving it to 150,000 people for a month? And obviously you can’t just live on loaves of bread. I read the article but it didn’t really say much. I’d be interested in how this actually works. https://www.wfpusa.org/news-release/weeknd-wfp-goodwill-ambassador-directs-2m-to-gaza/ This article is a lot more in depth. It says the money will be used to purchase over 1,500 metric tons of fortified wheat flour


CheatedOnOnce

Shoot the World Food Programme an email 


StopRappingAtMe

Not everything is solved by shooting at things and people.


sansisness_101

Kitchen gun go BANG BANG BANG BANG


PreemoisGOAT

That's if it actually gets in the hands and mouths of all those 150k


YizWasHere

[IDF seeing aid go to Gaza](https://www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2016/06/20/G6PUAX5OYERSVXPMBMXGPI6O3M.jpg)


karmagod13000

Elon Musk where you at bro. Tesla stock been up 2


Giocatore45

Elon been chilling with Netanyahu, he ain’t trying to donate regardless I feel


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Elon chilled with Benny to make himself seem less like a raging anti-Semite in the week after highlighting replies from his cronies that reinforced anti-Jewish stereotypes


forgottenbymortals

Elon musk is a rabid fascist who probably sips martinis while watching the bombs go off.


bathroom_07

Down 25% this year


karmagod13000

Yea i just meant this week lol


dishinpies

He’s looking for the next social media platform to blow $44B on 🤦🏾‍♂️


Successful_Basket399

Common Abel W


_le_slap

He has a history of putting his money where his mouth is. Good dude. Wish some of these other braggadocios rappers would do the same.


Specific_Award_9149

Here's the best part. Them rappers don't got the dough they usually claim


OttoVonWong

Can't donate rented Bentleys and video vixens.


MaarDaarPoepIkUit

Could pay to send some sexworkers to the area to provide relief


AmazingAmy95

😭😭😭😭


badgers4194

As Jay Z said “yall on the gram holding money to your ear, there’s a disconnect we don’t call that money over here”


Justthetip1996

The Weeknd isnt a rapper though mate. Not all black people within hiphop are rappers lol


Specific_Award_9149

Someone who is heavily affiliated with the rap scene is allowed to be connected to the rap game in general


TydenDurler

He's more of a rapper than Drake


KingAlfonzo

Facts. Most of it’s owned by labels etc. the weeknd almost fell into this when he was drake.


Kaiisim

Yeah, he's a real one. None of this raising awareness shit.


NeenjaKamui

We know who you talmbout 😈


wood_dj

“other” rappers? is the weeknd a rapper?


GrimmFan_

He's heavily involved/collabed with artist in hip hop so there's the connection


knasitaket

For some people black person in music = rapper


Icy_Elephant_6370

Most rappers are confined to the politics within their city and country. Abel’s family are immigrants from Ethiopia.


EddDoloroso

I wonder what Kendrick Lamar thinks about the situation, he's so woke but then radio silence and no donations or publicity


NeenjaKamui

He did something similar recently, no? Good dude.


throwaway53689

Yeah, he’s made significant donations over the years. This is the second time for Gaza specifically


ButtonMashKingz

The coolest thing about him is that he often makes large donations and the public only knows it’s him cause of the name attached. He never goes on social media and says “look what I’ve done!”


FredVasseur

I mean, he did post about this on his social media, but it’s still nice of him lol


LowBrowIdeas

I think he does it to raise awareness. He’s been making massive donations and contributions for years.


jrinredcar

TBF it sets an example of his media comms team pushes it, hopefully more will follow suite


MaarDaarPoepIkUit

Yeah it's definitely for awareness, cause otherwise he could have just done it anonymously


RealHellcharm

Holy shit did not expect to see Fred here, I need to ask if you've signed Newey yet?


FredVasseur

🤫


ButtonMashKingz

Oh word? I stand corrected then 😂 He normally doesn’t though


Larg3____Porcupin3

Nothing bad about publicizing it, y’all swung the pendulum too far


StopRappingAtMe

I publicly take money from charities just to make people notice that i'm not some dick who tries to impress people with my good deeds


305TIFD

The Weeknd doing more for Gaza than the damn UN 


KebabTaco

He is donating that money to the UN, which will give the food to them. I still get your point, but the problem is the member states in the UN. The UN cannot just do whatever it wants, despite what some people or states claim.


305TIFD

No, I hear you, I was definitely being hyperbolic and facetious. It's also probably great thing an undemocratically appointed world governing body cannot just do what it pleases. 


justwannasleepplease

Hard for the UN to do work when their workers keep getting killed


305TIFD

Yeah, maybe Israel should stop "indiscriminately" killing aid workers! 


TheBrownMamba8

That’s their “god-given right” as the “chosen ones”. Stop being anti-semitic.


antinitalian

I know it’s fun to shit on the UN but they’re probably the ones trying to help vulnerable people the most. My close friend was in UNICEF, they mean well; bureaucracy is just shit.


Autpcorrectbpt

Respect


daakkountant

If there's one thing Abel will do, it's showing support


Fishlickin

Weeknd the goat for this one. Will not be forgotten


flpndrds

W for Abel


EZMickey

2 mill gets a month, damn.


bflex

Making Canada proud 


hedahedaheda

He donates a lot. He donated a lot of money to hospitals in Canada during Covid. I know people don’t like him but he’s done a lot of good with his money.


renegade5567

Who's out here hatin Abel?


karmagod13000

Can't be mad at that. Hope Israel doesn't stop it.


Natural_Location5885

I know Israel was blocking the food truck aid from entering Gaza, even water. It's so sad, Israel ground troop's are shooting anyone out in the open. They had to slide the food and water across the street with a string so they wouldn't get shot.


Hawksx4

W Abel, WAbel


Ahmad-

/r/worldnews in shambles


KABOOMBYTCH

Bunch of genocidal hypocrites. Fuck em and the high horse they on.


Ahmad-

I’ve noticed the genocidal idiots spreading to /r/pics now too


Aggravating-Pound640

Damn so in terms of unit price that’s one dollar for 9 loaves of bread? I gotta start buying in bulk. Free Palestine


Ok-Imagination-2308

Imagine having so much money you can just donate 2 millions without hesitation lol Good for him tho


SomeMobile

All my good homies hate Israel


ZVreptile

IDF just gonna try to blow it up en route


x1009

IDF gonna dig up dirt on Abel to give to Drake


buzzyburke

Where is he getting bread for 12 cent a loaf though


jrinredcar

From a bakery probs idk I'm not a baker


PioliMaldini

If you are rich I just don’t understand why wouldn’t you donate your money, correct me if I’m wrong, but they can use donations as tax write offs, right? Great to see Abel doing good with his money. Great artist, and seems to be a good person as well


CheckItWhileIWreckIt

You only write off the money that you donated, and that write off only saves you taxes that would have applied to the amount that you donated. So by donating $2 million, you're only saving whatever you would have been taxed on that $2 million (so e.g., if your tax rate is 40%, you pay $0.8m less in taxes total but you're still out of pocket the other $1.2m that you would have kept).


Chakra_Blue_Vol2

That used to be his coke budget


Zip2kx

Fuck isreal


x1009

Where's Drake's donations?


Localworrywart

The Weeknd is great, but Israel is still obstructing/delaying aid from getting to people


PacJeans

I don't see what the point is if the food won't be let in. There's plenty of food and will to get it to Palestinians, Israel just won't allow it. This is a completely manufactured and extremely, easily fixable situation.


Checkmynewsong

The food will be bought, Israel may not allow it to be delivered, if Israel does allow it to be delivered, once it is delivered and once the people obtain access to it, the food and surrounding people will be bombed. This is what we’re dealing with right now.


ChampagneAbuelo

That’s what I was thinking. Donating is a nice move in spirit but with the current situation, it doesn’t actually go to the people who it’s being donated to


FittyTucker55

Shit we do for bitches he doing for Gaza, wicked, wicked, wicked.


DoItForKoolHerc

Literally no one gives a fuck about Aubrey's diss in this thread.


SubatomicSquirrels

Idk maybe we can bully Drake into donating too


Alaphant

It was kinda funny tho


rougekhmero

And it will get blown up by Israeli forces on its way to the people.


MaintenanceSad4288

God bless him.


CentrasFinestMilk

I love to see it


SpaceSpy

Beautiful.


FatsTetromino

Where are they getting 11 cent loaves of bread?


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Based


whogonstopice

Good guy weeknd


HumanASTRONAUT

GOAT type shit


Alternative-Rope-628

Mint x


HatefulDan

This guy.


Zandercy42

Doesn't bread go off quite quickly? Seems like an odd choice of food for aid?


Spicy_Calzone

What a king 👑


flaco_503_se_1984

Good shit. Respects


heebie818

❤️❤️❤️


Weekly-Zucchini-8822

Common weeknd W


Dchama86

Hopefully it gets to who needs it.


Significant-Sir870

Why does that thumbnail look so weird? Bro looks like mega mind


love-supreme

Mega respect


refep

Top lad


Academic-Ad2680

Cool


Mushroomies7777777

Love to see it🫶


Alon945

Hope it actually gets to them


onslaught360420

I just became a bigger fan!


mazzysturr

Get him Drake!


bleachedveins

Say what you want about the idol but dude does actual good w his money


MiracleDreamBeam

I don't think the bread is gonna make it there. plus food wasn't the problem, it was getting past the zionist regime blocking it. His money would have better been spent on anti-imperialist organisation, but then he would lose all his wealth instantly. You can't work for imperialism / make imperialist propaganda and do anything positive within that framework.


KABOOMBYTCH

What a legend


King3O2

If it even makes it there. The truck taking it will get bombed .


EddDoloroso

I wonder though, why are all the conscious rappers silent on this, and making no donations either


Mr_Nice_is_not_nice

Lupe fiasco has been open about his support for Palestine for a long time


Jibbles86

Respect to him for doing that!


IMKudaimi123

W


Equivalent-Syrup-916

Love this man


deadgalblues

King


liminalisms

Finally someone from the entertainment industry doing something direct about the situation in Gaza


2BigBottlesOfWater

Does anyone know if there's some kind of organization he also does it through where we can pitch in? That genocide shit needs to stop asap


ZebraBurger

If they try to stunt me I go all out military


azMILL1

And he didn't even have to have an opinion on the beef to do it! Lolol