The explosive popularity of Oliver Anthony's country song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” shows that the rising class consciousness and anger in the US isn’t limited to the millions of youth who consider communism their “ideal economic system.”
  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    c/the_dunk_tank

    Look at the lyrics of the song:

    Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds / Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground / 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      This is not against you personally - just what I see out of those lyrics. So forgive a bit of a rant.

      Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds

      This line promotes lazy welfare queen / king and attacking public health. No fractional pennies of mine is going to pay for other people state of mind.

      Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down.

      Promoting the whole :up-yours-woke-moralists: "there's a crisis with the men" mythos and reinforcing patriarchy. Why is it a always with men - have women not also had the same struggles? Oh noes the poor MALE! Won't anyone think of the MALEs? ooooooooooooooh I can't scapegoat my problems on minorities or be queerphobic or treat women like property without being called a bigot! This nation keeps kicking me, a WHITE MALE lmayo cracker down!

      It's like he took legit class consciousness gripes and quips that are still valid from carlin-pog George Carlin and twisted packages them into the Daily Wire / PragerU mythos to channel that energy into frothingfash pipeline.

      :porky-happy: couldn't ask for a better propagandist.

      I'd rather not give this chud a minute's care, but he keeps being given earned media and his stupid Mr. Beast Squash SEO monke-rage face is promoted by Youtube and bootlicker Cucksylvania.

      TBF I hadn't listed to a damn thing from this dude because 1- I lothe country music to begin with and only mock the fuck out of it whenever I do hear it in passing. 2- he's being promoted by the reich wing propaganda machine for a reason.

      If I can unpack all the above just out of a few lines then do I really need to torture myself with more?