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Cleverdawny ( Cleverdawny@lemm.ee )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

patriotic guitar twangles

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patriotic guitar twangles

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Cleverdawny ( Cleverdawny@lemm.ee )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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  • argv_minus_one ( argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) BannedBanned
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    That’s because a lot of Americans are under the impression that poor people are poor because they’re lazy, and not because they’re victims of oppression. They even cling to this absurd belief when they themselves are the victims of similar oppression. Must be lead in the water or something…

    • FaeDrifter ( FaeDrifter@midwest.social ) 
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      I’ve lived in very poor, rural, white American places, and it’s unironically all about skin color.

      White and poor? It’s because the Democrats illegally steal your money with taxes, and any welfare is just you getting back less than you deserve.

      Black and poor? It’s because you’re bad, and any welfare is the Democrats buying your vote and supporting you destroying the country with your violence.

      • GreenMario ( GreenMario@lemm.ee ) 
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        Can confirm. There is no such thing as a “white welfare queen”.

    • BigBen103 ( BigBen103@lemm.ee ) 
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      It is basically a slightly different variations of this

    • gabe [he/him] ( gabe@literature.cafe ) 
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      It’s an outcome of puritanical Protestantism in the modern day. It’s nicknamed prosperity theology. Lack of wealth is seen as a moral failure, rather than a societal one. To be wealthy is to be granted abundance by God, and to be poor is to be punished for misdeeds in the eyes of God. It’s a cruel ideal that is deeply embedded into right wing American religious spaces.

      • mayonaise_met ( mayonaise_met@feddit.nl ) 
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        Ah, yes. I remember Jesus explaining this in the lecture on the mount.

        • Rambi ( Rambi@lemm.ee ) 
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          That sounds like something supply side Jesus would do

    • CurlyChopz ( CurlyChopz@programming.dev ) 
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      Actually it’s “forever chemicals” that they’re drinking https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/08/what-are-pfas-forever-chemicals-what-risk-toxicity

  • Zink ( Zink@programming.dev ) 
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    This song does such a good job with communicating the conservaive trinity:

    • persecution complex
    • mad about things they themselves voted for
    • mad that the other is getting something, which is obviously undeserved
    • AdamHenry ( AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      In his interviews he claims he is a centrist but takes issues with teachers turning girls into boys and boys into girls.

  • JoYo ( JoYo@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I was at guitar center shopping for a nylon classical and this kid was singing that Oliver guy’s one song in the acoustic room.

    When he finished I told him that song is about me.

    He also played wonder wall, no joke, 10 times.

    • Franzia ( Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Lmfao

  • ColorcodedResistor ( Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee ) 
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    id be willing to wager a $20 he used A.I. software and tweaked it for these lyrics. everyone commenting has been skirting, what i think, to be just a new trend in bait music.

    The song is bad yet just cognitive enough to cause a stir.

    • Polymath ( Polymath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      Throwback to when @destineenstark gave an 8m3s discussion and analysis on TikTok spelling out how DESPITE Jason Williams swearing that all the video from “try that in a ‘small’ town” is all original and genuine, one thing is from Berlin, Germany, another from Plovdiv, Bulgaria, another stock image from somewhere else…

  • Takatakatakatakatak ( bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    It’s pretty funny that the expectation on any man who picks up a guitar these days is not that he has a decent voice to go with, it’s that his political ideology is “correct” and cohesive and that he makes sure to convey the entire thing in a 4 minute song.

    The people getting their knickers in twist over this song are lost.

    • Cleverdawny ( Cleverdawny@lemm.ee ) OP
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      Dude, no one is above getting mocked. Stop it with the butthurt lol

  • young_broccoli ( young_broccoli@kbin.social ) 
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    Songs are not often literal. When he sings about the “obese” i think he means “the wealthy” and not literally fat people.

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      deleted by creator

  • Filipdaflippa ( Filipdaflippa@lemmy.ml ) 
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    This isn’t political memes

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