“I love our country, I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to us,” country singer tells crowd after “long-ass week” of controversy

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    These dummies never understand that their country doesn’t want them. Society grows and leaves some people behind. Adapt and grow or turn in to an old man yelling at clouds.

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      Well, they also believe that America is identified by its small town culture. But it really isn’t. And I speak as someone who grew up in a very very small farming community.

      The thing is that nothing happens in small towns. They’re generally static and full of people who have escaped the rest of society in one way or another. They are not the harbingers of the future, more like the leftover dregs of yesteryear.

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        That’s the rub. Nobody wants to be told they’re irrelevant. Of course they believe that America is defined by people like them, because the alternative is to accept that America is defined by a culture that might as well be aliens to them.

        They are losing a culture war. They feel like they have to announce their relevance, but they don’t understand why that very thing means they are becoming irrelevant.

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    Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash didn’t act like this. Maybe you could aspire to be more like them, and less like… you.

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    Create an exclusionary song about not liking someone’s behavior.

    Whine about being excluded due to behavior.

    Sounds about right.

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      That entire song is just a thinly veiled threat saying “we’re going to murder you if you’re trying something we disapprove of here in this place, where we have all the power.”

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    Let me guess: This choad thinks that “before all this bullshit started happening to us” is any time before April 12, 1861.

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        Even the guitar sounds like it’s wallowing in self-pity. “Waaaaahw. Waaaaaahw. WAAAAAAHW.”

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        Lots of great folk, bluegrass and Americana, even some good “country”.

        “Pop” country is the one you hate

        Give some Sturgill Simpson a try, and if that’s too “country” for you still , try his “fire and fury” album which is quite a departure, complete with custom anime music videos

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    Restore it to what? A time when we didn’t acknowledge how terrible we always were? I always find it funny that the people with the least amount of things to worry about are always the most vocal about being “hurt”.

    The worst part is always how little they can relate to anyone who has always had it bad living in America, no matter what year it was. I guess it is ok for some to suffer as long as it’s not them.

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    Restore our country to what it was? Oh, you mean having black people in the back of the bus and LGBTQ people in the closet.

    Personally, if we’re going to revert anything to the 1950’s, I say bring back the 1950’s tax brackets. In 1955, anything a person earned over $400,000 ($4.4 million in today’s money) was taxed at 91%.

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      When I grew up we bullied gay children until they killed themselves. I’ll take cancel culture going too far over that any day.

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    I want to go back to 3 days ago when I’d never heard of this chuckledick.

    Seriously: just ignore this dingus. He’s a waste and any press/ clicks is good press

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      This right here.

      When he does, sings, or says anything worth paying attention to, someone let me know please?

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    The problem is “his country” is the Confederacy and by restored he means slavery reinstated. That is my take until I see him prove me wrong, which he won’t.

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    Lil Nas x (or someone else current idk, just seems like he’d be a good fit) should write a response song called “try singing that in an urban center”

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    Maybe try to release a less inflammatory video concept next time. He is appealing to the Maga crowd but is turning off many others.

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    All the cerebral content of a Teen Miss USA speech. What a fucking clown.

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      “I personally believe that U. S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should—our education over here in the U. S. should help the U. S., uh, or, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq, and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.”

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        “Uh, well, uh, I think America is the land of the free, which is a wonderful thing, and also the brave, where people can live. And nobody can ever take that away from you. And it never gives up. But the high birthing rate of immigrants frightens me! No offense to anyone out there, but if it were up to me and my family, I would actually call it our America, and not their America! Thank you.”

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        Hey man, don’t be too hard on her. She did advocate later on for more maps and geography courses in school, lol.