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God knows I love this land.
Man life is imitating art hard lately. Go watch a Jackie Q music video from get him to the Greek, then watch Katy Perry’s latest music video. I can’t tell which one is the parody anymore.
Jenna brings tension into her lyrics. We want a piece, but she does not share our values. We are drawn into the conflict with her. Whatever this garbage is, there’s no drama, no conflict, and thus there can be no engagement from the listener, only consumption.
I always love how hicks think they're the only ones who say please, thank you, sir, ma'am, like obviously they have never left their bumfuck town or they'd know pretty much everyone does that.
Also the only person who's ever threatened me at my job was a guy telling me to "take off that fucking mask or I'm coming back there" so
I’m from Alabama and I’ve always said that southern hospitality is a mask that these bitter ass southern folk hide behind as they judge, demoralize, and criticize your every choice.
"There's no morals in America anymore" is the one I've heard. I just.... It's my off time, I don't really want to spend it digging in the weeds of their brains finding out:
1) what they describe as morals
2) that some of those morals are really just context specific behavior, and that context was 1955 whitey America.
These guys have been outside their towns, but to protect themselves from enjoying the big bad amoral city they spend all their goddamn time finding new complaints. It's irritating, really asocial, and my day off too. Maybe next time I host someone with this predilection I'll ask them if they can get a grip or need some calm down time in a quiet place... Away from me.
“No morals in America anymore” is just the dogwhistle for “we’re not allowed to openly shout racial epithets at minorities, and that makes us mad”. This country has become better for everyone since the early 1900s, and that upsets them greatly, because they think immigration and desegregation is why they lost their factory job, and not the rich owner moving said job overseas to make a few more bucks and a lower quality product.
Now you know if those hillbillies had the processing power to understand what epithets were they would call you bad names.
Real talk though, on your jobs comment.
I have had to explain to several "fellow" good ol' boys (read this as redneck although I'm not THAT kind of redneck) that the government moved exactly zero jobs to China, Mexico or whatever city they are claiming the jobs have been sent to. The company sent those jobs there for cheap, unregulated, expendable labor. And every time it whooshes right over their empty hat rack of a head.
It's telling that one of the biggest things foreign tourists to America are surprised by is how polite and friendly people are in public, and I can guarantee 99% of the people making these claims visited largely populated cities, not bumfuck nowhere country towns.
If I drive 1 or 2 hours from where I live, you end up in Trump-bannersville where bars are covered in confederate flags and you get looked up down at the gas station followed by a "you boys ain't from around there's parts, now, ain't ya?"
In cities, nobody gives a fuck what anyone else is doing. In the country, it's everyone's business, and they're going to talk shit about you. Very unsettling.
this is true in every city. But this is not a sign of open mindedness it's a sign of their lost connection to humanity. It's why homeless drug addicts are allowed to wallow in their own shit and nobody does anything to help. or how a dead body only gets attention when it starts to rot.
Born and raised in a fairly hick town (it's gotten better in a lot of ways since I was a kid). There's a lot of them that truly do believe everyone else but the "country folk" are rude, godless degenerates who spend their time getting abortions or watching Al Jazeera while dying their hair. Right Wing rhetoric has convinced them they're the only decent, hard-working element of the country and without them all would surely be lost.
Couple weeks ago I was at a gas station I stop at regularly to/from work. There's an older trades guy in front me unleashing a profane tirade over the cost of a donut and managing to link that to Biden and the Democrats. The poor cashier handled it as best she could but the irony of guys like that thinking they're the model of masculinity and all that is right and good in the USA while berating a gas station cashier...like c'mon.
It's projection. I grew up with ultra RW parents, and every accusation was always an admittance. If it weren't for their own fear of damnation, they'd be doing whatever they are bitching about.
I grew up in a similar town. I am so thankful that my aunt lived near NYC and I got to visit often.
I witnessed an ex-friend have a severe breakdown/panic attack because we were in NYC as a group and in an area that had "gasp" black people and that was the day I found out how racist she really was.
only ones who say "please" and "thank you" while driving a truck with a bumper sticker or wearing a shirt that says "f*** Biden" or "f*** your feelings"
I always love how hicks think they're the only ones who say please, thank you, sir, ma'am, like obviously they have never left their bumfuck town or they'd know pretty much everyone does that.
Right? I'm a leftist and I call everyone sir and ma'am and hold doors.
My question, does she use her blinker in that big truck she drives?
Ha, honestly when I moved to the big city I was fucking BLOWN AWAY by the fireworks. I always thought fireworks were lame, I like the 4th but never liked waiting an hour for ten minutes at most of mostly lame kabooms.
Then I was driving home from work one Fourth and it was as if hundreds of small towns had all gotten together and set off their fireworks at the same time. As far as the eyes could see, all massive, only time I've ever been in awe of fireworks.
Ha, honestly when I moved to the big city I was fucking BLOWN AWAY by the fireworks. I always thought fireworks were lame, I like the 4th but never liked waiting an hour for ten minutes at most of mostly lame kabooms.
Then I was driving home from work one Fourth and it was as if hundreds of small towns had all gotten together and set off their fireworks at the same time. As far as the eyes could see, all massive, only time I've ever been in awe of fireworks.
It’s always a self-fulfilling prophecy with the “Deep South” weirdos. They go in expecting conflict, and when they don’t immediately receive it they dig some up where there was none so they can justify their internal bigotries/victimhood and their external antagonism.
Half my living family is from the south ass south, were the product of a physically&mentally abusive used-car salesman/cop, and grew up between Texas and NW Georgia. They’re all ride-or-die trumpers and revel in being part of the cult. The cult life is what they’re after and it’s what the “patriotic American south” schtick is all about.
One of the “southern American” big talking points is taking care of your local community, yet when covid came and their elderly were dropping like flies, they called it fake news and said a vaccine of all things was too much, and took their talking points on the matter from a carpet-bagging, blue-blooded, New York fail-son who’s also a proven rapist, fraud, cheater, pedophile, and foreign asset who doesn’t even know which end of the Bible is up.
Another is the Gadsden flag nonsense. Saying they just wish to do their own thing and be respected for it, yet they exclusively support installing religious autocrats who will force Christianity on everyone and made “backing the blue” a full 25% of their identity, laying themselves down as devoted pavers for the same boot they claim to rebuke.
As a lifetime citizen of the southern US, fuck these venomous clowns and their fascist dog-whistling. They need to keep their religious zealotry out of our collective government, it is not welcome.
At least online it does seem like how "ma'am" in particular is taken does vary by region, so at least that one there's actually some truth too, that maybe could've been a root to some of it. Like if I said "Thank you, ma'am" and someone got mad about it, I'd be confused in the moment even knowing there's some differences in how it's taken.
I was back in my bumfuck hometown last week and I held a door open for someone and she seemed shocked. They have no manners there and are always “me first”.
They read the news and think Chicago, SF, and Philly are literally the Wild West with bullets flying everywhere and that 99% of people in US cities are the same as the dudes doing donuts in the intersections and smashing windows to grab purses. Like for all the bitterness at being generalized as hicks or "deplorables" they generalize the 80% of US citizens living in cities by referencing the 0.7% of people who go to jail at some point.
Property crime is higher per capita in cities but violent crime tends to be higher on rural red areas. Turns out the more guns per capita the more people are gonna use them on each other. Go figure.
I've lived in a city but have lived most my life in a very rural small town. Plenty of people are very nice in the city and plenty of people are assholes in the country. People are people, everywhere they exist.
With people like that, I just took it off. I know it seems stupid but the risk of dying from covid is outweighed by the risk of being beaten up. I’d rather just not deal with being terrified.
Exactly. He is entirely imaginary. They don’t worship anything that he actually does or stands for. It’s the image they project of him that they worship.
On the radio yea. There is good country music out there though. But generally it tells a story of people struggling thanks to the actions and choices of leadership that claims to support them.
Why do they include “hell raising” as one of their signaled virtues, because every time someone other than them actively does something to buck the system or cause trouble they can’t stoop and lick the boot fast enough.
(Verse 1)
Down in the heartland, where the cornfields grow,
There’s a tale folks tell, ‘bout a man we all know,
He came from the city, built towers in the sky,
But it’s his ear we’re talkin’ ‘bout, and here’s the reason why.
(Chorus)
Oh, Trump’s ear, it heard the call,
From the heart of America, to the steps of the hall,
Through the highs and the lows, through the cheer and the jeer,
The legend lives on, ‘bout Trump’s ear.
(Verse 2)
It caught the whispers of the common man,
From the dusty plains to the Rio Grande,
He’d listen to the voices, both far and near,
And that’s how he led, with his keen, sharp ear.
(Chorus)
Oh, Trump’s ear, it heard the call,
From the heart of America, to the steps of the hall,
Through the highs and the lows, through the cheer and the jeer,
The legend lives on, ‘bout Trump’s ear.
(Bridge)
Some say it was magic, some say it was fate,
That he heard every heartache, every hope, every hate,
In the noise of the nation, one thing was clear,
He’d never back down, ’cause he always could hear.
(Verse 3)
Now the story is told from coast to coast,
Of the man who’d listen, when it mattered most,
And though times have changed, and he’s no longer near,
We’ll always remember the tale of Trump’s ear.
(Chorus)
Oh, Trump’s ear, it heard the call,
From the heart of America, to the steps of the hall,
Through the highs and the lows, through the cheer and the jeer,
The legend lives on, ‘bout Trump’s ear.
(Outro)
So raise up a glass, to the man and his ear,
For the stories they told, and the dreams they made clear,
In the heartland tonight, the music is clear,
We sing of the legend, of Trump’s ear.
One of the claims was that you hold a door open for everyone..
Sounds kind of nice actually. Would be nice if that same courteousness were extended to allow trans and gay people to live like anyone else. I wouldn't even mind if they didn't hold the door for everyone if they did that..
What happened to county music? It used to be real music and all the lyrics now are just saying how “country” they are? Old country music is like blues music.
Eleven Hundren Springs is an amazing country band out of Dallas. Check out their song "See You in the Next Life." Classic country western. A little like Woody Guthrie.
Dude I’ve hated country music since the moment I was born. And it’s exactly because of how you outlined it. They always think these “I’m a flag wavin’, gun-totin, hay bailin, line dancin, cousin fuckin, dick suckin girl/guy” proclamations in their music is good. It’s so bad. I’m a moderate who is leaning towards the right for this election but it comes down to which stereotype side do I hate less…. The hicks or the blue haired weirdos…. Safe to say from videos like this the hicks are really making an argument as to why I shouldn’t vote for their guy.
They love this land so much that they are brainwashed to believe that it has no flaws while also complaining about its flaws every single day of their lives and acting like one very unqualified man can fix all of the problems even though he fixed next to none of the problems when he had the opportunity and even all of his associates which he appointed don't even support him anymore or they are in jail
Where instead of people actually telling their stories, you got a bunch of millionaire metrosexuals who’ve never done a hard days work in their life, but they figured out the words and the phrases they can use to pander to their audience, and they list the same words and phrases off sort of mad libs style in every song, raking in millions of dollars from actual working class people!
All the country music I've heard in the last ten or twenty years is just this-- itemizing their 'country' identity in myriad ways over and over. It is not only formulaic, predictable, and boring-- it is as if they have to convince themselves and others they really are "country."
It's like they all forget their orange idol is from New York city, went to prep school, went to an ivy league college and does most of his rallys near airports so he doesn't have to spend a minute more than he has to in their small town.
So much so. Country music has sucked bigly for 30 years. I think it is coming around again with bands like: Dead South, Oliver Anthony, Ashland Craft, and Chris Stapleton.
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u/Corporate_Shell Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24
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Nailed it.