patriotic guitar twangles

Fuck this bible thumpin reactionary hillbilly dork.

"But he goes after both sides!"

No, He punches down on poor people. Fuck off with that.

I feel like I should be happy to not recognize this person.

This song does such a good job with communicating the conservaive trinity:

• persecution complex
• mad about things they themselves voted for
• mad that the other is getting something, which is obviously undeserved

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…

He's a Jewish conspiracy level Nazi.

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Picture of Oliver Anthony singing with the caption above: "When the government gives more of your tax money to corporations but you're mad someone used EBT to buy snacks"

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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 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.

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.

You could be mad at both.... why is this a black and white issue? EBT abuse is real.

I have seen people literally sell the milk they get from EBT that was intended to be used for their baby. They bragged about being able to get the new iphone with it. I have seen homeless who buy bottled water on SNAP only to dump and resell the bottles so they could get cash for their addictions. Why would i not be mad at that just as I am at how corporate bailouts didnt help anyone except the top .01% of society?

Edit: so many hexbears. I dont care to respond to Kremlin bots.

Definitely not defending Oliver Anthony because aside from this song, don't know donkey about him but take this for what it's worth as a die hard libertarian in the rural south who has also lived in urban areas.

I get how the song is appealing to actual working class people in the south. "Your dollar ain't shit," "overtime hours for bullshit pay," applies to a lot of living conditions here. Employers want college degrees in these areas for $12-15 an hour. Normal people that haven't went to trade school or college because they can't afford it, got pregnant, had to help with bills, etc. have very slim chances of getting one.

There are legitimately people in this area who have always been on top, that now are making 80k+ per year, who still draw food stamps and have medical cards. So yeah, if you're a normal Joe trying to be honest, it sucks dick. Because you spend 60+ hours of your week preparing to/teaching kids who are taught from birth that school is stupid and will never do anything for them, get paid $30k a year, as a good job, and your take home is less than 2000 a month. Houses start at 200k, milk is $5 a gal, gas $3.50, groceries are at an all time high because of profit margins, I get why it resonates with working class people here. If you aren't actively gaming the system (the Welfare hating as critics of the song are calling it) the way 40% of the area does, you're shit out of luck.

Again, don't know anything about the dude, but know a lot about the rural south, and they're underpaid, overworked, and the biggest victims of the government in this country because the government actively keeps a majority of them in learned helplessness and the remainder can't get ahead because with everyone having a medical card or EBT, jobs assume they don't have to pay shit.

Tl;dw?

Songs are not often literal. When he sings about the "obese" i think he means "the wealthy" and not literally fat people.

Thanks for the heads up. That is a good song?

Let's conflate the prime thrust of the song with just the one line where he refers to food stamps and crucify him / not hold those sewing poverty and anxiety into society to account

This isn't political memes