• @ebenixo@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Let’s conflate the prime thrust of the song with just the one line where he refers to food stamps and crucify him / not hold those sewing poverty and anxiety into society to account

    • Franzia
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      42 years ago

      The prime thrust of the song is a dogwhistle about the confederacy

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        2 years ago

        It’s a populist song it’s got fuck all to do with race. Try thinking for yourself and stop being an apologist for corporatism. What you don’t like is the populism because you like being lap dog to corporations so you try to conflate anything populist with racism because you saw someone else do it and you are a follower.

        • Franzia
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          92 years ago

          I didn’t say race. I said Confederacy. The lyrics continuously dogwhistle about the mason dixon line and the union / confederacy divide.

          Can it really be populist and anti-corporate if it repeats talking points from Raegan? And if it was almost certainly funded and put in front of us by a think tank?

    • @Aaliyah1@lemm.ee
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      62 years ago

      The lyrics are extremely basic and not creative in the slightest. They make gestures towards working class solidarity, but are petit bourgeois attitudes wrapped in redneck aesthetics for comfortable middle class folk. Songs like this are a dime a dozen, and I’m sure you can find another song like this, especially in country/bluegrass, without the racist undertones.

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          42 years ago

          Okay, so what in your mind is the “prime thrust” of the song. Because to me it has a pretty clear middle class perspective