Fuck this bible thumpin reactionary hillbilly dork.
"But he goes after both sides!"
No, He punches down on poor people. Fuck off with that.
The name of the song itself is a huuuuuggggge dog whistle, imo. Tells me everything I need to know about the target demographic.
Dude is a full blown nazi, his YouTube channel had (possibly still has) a playlist of videos titled something like "videos to make ya think", including stuff about the dancing Israelis conspiracy theory.
I feel like I should be happy to not recognize this person.
Same
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This song does such a good job with communicating the conservaive trinity:
In his interviews he claims he is a centrist but takes issues with teachers turning girls into boys and boys into girls.
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…
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.
Can confirm. There is no such thing as a "white welfare queen".
It is basically a slightly different variations of this
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.
He's a Jewish conspiracy level Nazi.
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.
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
AJJ aka Andrew Jackson Jihad has been around making protest songs for awhile.
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
Fit For An Autopsy has been around for a while my dude. Look them up.
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Good job! Thank you for doing that.
Anyone have the numbers of social welfare spending vs corporate welfare spending for a recent year? Say 2020-2022? I can't find it.
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.
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
It depends on what exactly you consider social welfare and corporate welfare. There's all sorts of ways to split the data.
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.
I know this guy. I mean, not exactly this guy but pretty much.
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.
Yeah, I get it. It's like conservatives who use "Born in the USA" at political rallies. Sometimes you gotta listen to the lyrics
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.
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.
