#and obviously i am not in defense of homophobic governance but if you think you're the victim of that and you're just like.

[astradyke]

i do very genuinely believe that Dan and Phil want to go to other places than they actually wind up going to because of touring logistics, and i also recognize that though they're involved in the conversation (ex. Phil's email thread about Mexico), they don't individually book the gigs and it is extremely likely that there are a lot of places where venues are unwilling to host a show without a number of people likely to go surpassing a certain threshold, and maybe even the fact that the show description mentions them being gay is a problem in certain areas. i understand all of that and i also additionally get that my expectations for them are lowered by the fact that they are two rich white men from the UK so i'm not exactly expecting peak leftism here. ALL i'm saying is i wish they had a little more tact, and particularly i mean Dan here, in talking about the fact that they can't go to certain places. and i know it's just one tweet because Dan and Phil both actually did a good job addressing this in the pre-tour Q&A in my opinion (they were compassionate and also had like a concrete explanation even if it was a bit belated, i get why they'd include it in a tour Q&A instead of just a singular tweet), just. as a general note i really do not love how they talk about non-Western countries sometimes and i'm disinterested in getting into the weeds of discourse about it because there's not really a ton more to say, just. love them but it's fucking irritating. yeah that's all.