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.
honestly I'm still shocked people are buying into Reagan's welfare queen nonsense 40+ fucking years later
Step 1 to believing welfare queen nonsense: Be racist and imagine said queen as being black
Or Hispanic or native American or an immigrant
Immigrants aren't even eligible for EBT until they're citizens but it doesn't stop the whining from the right
This song does such a good job with communicating the conservaive trinity:
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.
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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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Someone here mentioned this dude lives in a camper as somehow proof of his working class bona fides. Yeah…he lives on 90 acres of land that he wants to build a farm on and raise livestock. Doesn’t exactly scream “working class.”
Not that it matters. He could’ve written this song sitting down at the bottom of a mine at the end of his shift right before he was diagnosed with black lung and it still would’ve been a shitty racist song.
Also has anyone looked into how this shit got so popular? At least Jason Aldean is a known guy so it makes sense that song got popular, but with all the talk of industry plants this Oliver Anthony guy feels extremely sus. Especially for some nobody living off the grid somewhere in the middle of Virginia
Absolutely a plant. Nashville has been an arm of conservative propaganda since at least 9/11.
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.
this kid is training to become every white guy at a party with a guitar
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.
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.
