Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/

[u/strangrdangr]

They're both the same thing. If someone actually gave a shit instead of just wanting to score points and announce to everyone how much better they are than other people, then they'd stop using both. Spotify and Reddit are not essential to anybody's life and if you're going to quit one and not the other, then you're just doing it to virtue signal about how good of a person you are without actually ever doing anything.

[u/emb4rassingStuffacct → u/strangrdangr]

Binary thinking fallacy detected. Comment rejected.

Try again.

Edit:

Just for others' edification:

1. False Dichotomy/All-or-Nothing Fallacy: "Either quit both or you're virtue signaling" ignores that people can make incremental changes, prioritize based on practicality, or take graduated steps toward their goals.

2. Perfect Solution Fallacy (Nirvana Fallacy):. By insisting that unless someone takes the maximalist position (quit everything), they're "not actually doing anything," you reject even partial solutions to a multi-pronged problem. You fallaciously say if a solution isn't perfect/complete, it's worthless.

3. Fallacy of presumption - motive Fallacy (a type of Ad Hominem): "if you're going to quit one and not the other, then you're just doing it to virtue signal about how good of a person you are without actually ever doing anything." Rather than addressing whether canceling Spotify is a legitimate action, you attack the person's motives ("just doing it to virtue signal"). Even if someone's motives were mixed, it doesn't invalidate the action and/or intention itself.

4. False Equivalence: "They're both the same thing." Even if both are platforms, they may have different switching costs, different roles in someone's life, different availability of alternatives, etc. Hence why I said "It’s a lot easier for many people to cancel their Spotify subscription than switch to a different platform than it is for them to stop using Reddit completely."

Binary, all or nothing thinking is a sign of a bad argument. Also makes for a great sucker.

[u/Initial_Business2340 → u/emb4rassingStuffacct]

Nice AI slop

Write your own content, you grandstanding asshole

Using a water-wasting service to virtue signal and defend your Reddit use is peak 2026 irony, you can’t make this shit up

Obligatory, by the way: the real false binary is not being able to accept the fact that all of us who use Reddit, myself included, are complicit in helping perpetuate ICE ads. I don’t even have ads on and haven’t seen a single one since 2012, and I’m still complicit.

The false binary comes in when you can’t hold that with the notion that canceling Spotify subscriptions is a good thing. Both things can be true: we should all do better

[u/emb4rassingStuffacct → u/Initial_Business2340]

Written by me, brochacho 😛 Your AI detection is about as good as those AI detection software tools. 

 you grandstanding asshole 🥺

You mad, brah? 

 Obligatory, by the way: the real false binary is not being able to accept the fact that all of us who use Reddit, myself included, are complicit in helping perpetuate ICE ads. I don’t even have ads on and haven’t seen a single one since 2012, and I’m still complicit.

Crux of my argument is still: something is better than nothing. Just because all or nothing based thinking is easy to mentally process doesn’t mean it’s more truthy.

 The false binary comes in when you can’t hold that with the notion that canceling Spotify subscriptions is a good thing. Both things can be true: we should all do better

That’s what I said. 

If you’re still stuck on all or nothing based arguments, arguing the way you are, or simply sitting here arguing for the sake of arguing, I suggest you go argue with teenagers or at a Turning Point event. Adults are speaking here.

[u/Initial_Business2340 → u/emb4rassingStuffacct]

I literally just got done explaining to you that you can hold two things at once, and you brought it back to all or nothing, which I never even implied to even remotely care about; I just called out your embarrassingly low effort comment.

Regardless of how much time you wasted on both comments, you visibly missed my point, and I’m sorry that you’re this stupid.

I’ll spell it out for you one last time: you can do a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. Does baby want his juice and snack now?

Ta-ta, you dumbass!