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Since countering Aldean's claim the video only contains "real news footage," Destinee Stark has received a wave of hateful messages from defenders of the song.

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago

You got it wrong.

The implied threat to use a firearm comes after that, in regards to trying to take the firearm in question, not in regards to the section quoted.

If you're going to point out hypocrisy, point to the accurate hypocrisy :)

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See how far you make it down the road because he has a gun... which he will use as a pointing device to politely direct you elsewhere.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean this song is dumb as fuck but the quote is misleading.

That last line is the start of a second verses focusing on how you can't take his granpappy's gun - it's not part of a continued threat from the first verse

OP definitely knew this, because the punctuation doesn't even line up as if it were the end of the verse. This is deliberately misleading, which is weird, because the song is obviously already ridden with shit lines.

[-] czech@no.faux.moe 27 points 1 year ago

Yes the implied violence and the introduction of grandpas gun are purely coincidental! How misleading of OP!

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is misleading. The second verse literally has its own implied threat.

Got a gun that my granddad gave me

They say one day they're gonna round up

Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck

This is just how songs, paragraphs, and language in general work.

[-] czech@no.faux.moe 11 points 1 year ago

Just because the second verse literally has its own implied threat does not mean the first verse is unrelated. In songs and paragraphs adjacent sentences are typically related- its how English works- but I can't speak for all languages.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

It's not "unrelated". It's just not part of the same shitty statement. It's part of a different shitty statement.

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Working hard defending this guy aren't you?

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. I'm against people intentionally misleading others even when I agree with their general thrust.

If people stopped buying in when they were being obviously mislead, we wouldn't have had Trump

This really shouldn't be such a hard concept for you to grasp.

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's a lot of words to say, 'yeah, I am spending a lot of personal, unpaid time to defend someone I don't know'.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Except I'm literally attacking both the song and the OP's lying comment.

Quit being stupid. It's a bad look.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Defenses of people don't normally include statements about how the person is shit lol

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