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[–] ashok36 224 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Fuck this bible thumpin reactionary hillbilly dork.

"But he goes after both sides!"

No, He punches down on poor people. Fuck off with that.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The name of the song itself is a huuuuuggggge dog whistle, imo. Tells me everything I need to know about the target demographic.

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[–] wintermutehal 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] Kandorr 113 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like I should be happy to not recognize this person.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (16 children)

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
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[–] TrismegistusMx 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's a Jewish conspiracy level Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

And unfortunately he's also a pretty damn good singer.

Like my hackles were up the whole time I was listening to the song because I knew this is some sort of like Republican redneck protest song against the liberals, but at the same time I had to admit the guy can fucking sing and it was a good song.

We really need to step up our protest song game.

[–] RomeCallen 23 points 1 year ago

You need to get out there and look.

Lots of revolutionary music being made, just not made by industry plants and boosted by bullshit

Tho he is a good singer, the song was basic

[–] iforgotmyinstance 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AJJ aka Andrew Jackson Jihad has been around making protest songs for awhile.

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[–] baldingpudenda 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah that first verse about how we struggle, etc. I was very interested. Then look out for miners, not minors...oook easy dunk, we can all get behind protecting kids. Then the welfare thing. Oh it's republican talking points not a new uprising of classic country like Cash

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Tyler Childers is the good version of this guy.

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[–] TrismegistusMx 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that's absolutely v i l e

And not just the highlighted one

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[–] Transcriptionist 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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Picture of Oliver Anthony singing with the caption above: "When the government gives more of your tax money to corporations but you're mad someone used EBT to buy snacks"

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[–] kingshrubb 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone have the numbers of social welfare spending vs corporate welfare spending for a recent year? Say 2020-2022? I can't find it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm too lazy to look up the numbers, but I think the premise of this argument is rather weak.

Money spend on social welfare, vastly improves poor people's lives. When you spend it on corporate welfare, the money tends to go into the pockets of people who are already pretty comfortable.

This is a simplification of a multifaceted issue, but by and large I think this holds a lot more water than just comparing numbers.

Also: There was a pandemic in the time period given, so there might be some selection bias.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Means testing is something that wastes a lot of public welfare funds and is usually a tool utilized by those who want to cut programs as an example of welfares inability to work. If we got rid of means testing then corporate welfare would be shown for how truly useless it is. I'm not arguing with you or anything, just adding some more detail to the topic

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[–] TeenieBopper 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I legit actually like country music. Country music and punk rock. Both of them are just three chords and the truth

And man, when this song started, dude came in hot. I loved it. And then he went flying right off the rails.

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[–] theangryseal 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know this guy. I mean, not exactly this guy but pretty much.

[–] MojoMcJojo 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I likes the song when I saw it on Tik Tok. Now I'm getting videos for right wing politics. I just thought it sounded good. Had no idea that it would become a nazi war cry.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I get it. It's like conservatives who use "Born in the USA" at political rallies. Sometimes you gotta listen to the lyrics

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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