What is the craziest conspiracy you actually believe?

  • Nero [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I'm not sure if this is a conspiracy theory, but I think the GOP has been funneling money to hack country musicians to get them to make more music about how great small town life is to keep people from moving and weakening republican majorities in rural areas.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This is actually well documented and ramped up significantly following 9/11. There was a huge purge in the country music scene (see the Dixie Chicks) that removed the remaining working class characteristics and made it entirely a nationalist/jingoistic propaganda outlet. I think Citations Needed has a pretty recent podcast on it.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Square dancing was promoted by Henry Ford to stop white people from liking Jazz, as that was music for blacks and Jews. Not joking, it is documented.

      • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Not just “promoted”, lobbied to be put in schools and made the “state dance” in many places...

        Shit, I learned square dancing in school when I was younger

    • Churnthrow123 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It's less about keeping people from moving and more about making people accept less and stay put. They spin shitty conditions and a lack of infrastructure as being on the frontier and being proud of a simple life. "It ain't much, but it's mine".