"Centrist" aka "I'll still vote for racist fascist misogynists instead of anyone else". Fuck off!
P.S. And he thinks welfare is a problem like some blubbering Reganite reject.
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Really, I think centrist normally just means totally uninformed. They've buried their head in the sand so they don't realize what's wrong.
Centrist means you’re too embarrassed to admit you’re a republican.
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The distinguishing mark of so-called "conservatives" in the US is not, in fact, conservatism — that is, a desire to cherish and protect the good in their society.
Rather, it is betrayal.
They are not conservatives, but rather traitors — betrayers. They betray their faith, placing Trump ahead of Jesus. They betray their country, placing Putin ahead of Washington. They betray their species, placing oil companies ahead of humanity.
Conservatism can only be redeemed by embracing the actual good of our actual society. You can only conserve that which really exists. That includes the "melting pot" of multiculturalism.
It would be cool if they were all about conserving wildlife, natural features, forests, clean air, and clean water. Or the rights to vote and have privacy.
But no, they just want to conserve the power of a small group at the expense of everyone else.
News sites need to start using screenshots of tweets. That article is mostly empty space with some @s in it for me.
I just assumed my ad blocker was doing its job. Weird formatting, if not.
I feel that’s every internet article in today’s news dystopia. Clickbait headlong, taking you to a site that gives your device more cancer than a Gawker media site, where the actual tweet doesn’t even load.
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I don't wanna judge this guy yet. He could mean well. The song has a great message until it doesn't.
"They want to know what you do and think!"
Yeah fuck the man!
"Fat people on welfare shouldn't be eating fudge!"
...what?
But he seems young, kinda wholesomely uneducated, passionate, and genuinely has a good voice/can play pretty well.
I'm not surprised conservatives latched on.
I'm glad to see he's shaking them off.
The songs ok, but that lyric seems to defeat the purpose. Hopefully his future hits do a better job keeping his message clear and consistent. Hopefully that message is "eat the rich" and not "starve the poor".
Hopefully that message is "eat the rich" and not "starve the poor".
I wouldn't go holding my breath. He's pretty clearly on the ignorant conservative train, he just happens to maybe be a little less racist than most of them.
I've watched a few of his non music videos to see if I sniff it out and I don't catch a bad vibe from him beyond that lyric.
I think the general issue with Conservatism as a modern ideology is that it only spreads through uneducated crowds. We can't blame people for the bad education they got.
He talks about the pure joy he's getting out of people enjoying his content. He even deliberately tried to deliver a message of inclusivity to ward off the conservative crowd from making him their mascot.
Getting overnight fame is hard and I hope he handles it well and in a way that enables him to share his talents for good.
Good on you for recognizing that this man could have a good heart and be a possible ally. The 2016 era has made us jump to conclusions immediately and shun anyone who seems sympathetic to conservatives. I get that and fully understand it, I do the same.
But the problem is that doing so pushes people in the middle towards conservatives. We can say his welfare lyrics are unacceptable without making him into a total pariah. He holds a lot of similar beliefs to us, and I bet you could sway him over a beer. He's not a stubborn and hateful conservative, he's a misguided moderate. We only create more enemies by our own hand if we shun everyone.
I'm inclined to think that his comments on diversity here are indicative of him rejecting a conservative idol position.
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That website is absolute cancer on a mobile device
I use an ad blocker and the empty space between information (presumably where ads should be) is hilariously large
Just use Firefox and ublock, friend.
The ads work pretty well. That's the point right? The ads?
All these people know is hate.
They can only support "their own" for so long before they start directing their hate and rage at each other.
Cycles keep spinning.
They’d like him better if they knew he fucked an ostrich. Bunch of fuckin’ degens.
ALLEGEDLYS!
I heard it was a sick ostrich
"We are the melting pot of the world and that's what makes us strong our diversity. And we need to learn to harness that and appreciate it and not use it as a political tool to keep everyone separate from it.”
Conservatives: No, that's exactly the tool we've been talking about.
It's saddening and hurtful that overt racism is accepted and trendy in The United States of America. I genuinely don't understand how the most foundational core component of this country is lost on so many people. The US was founded to escape persecution and oppression (as it persecuted and oppressed the natives and later did the same with "imported labor"). Oh, yeah... I guess hypocrisy and contradiction is right there within the core too.
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I don’t know if I like them wearing their racism on their sleeve better than back when they were hiding it.
At least you know who to avoid that way.
Is it just me or does anyone else think the lyrics were done with chatGPT or some other LLM?
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This article is garbage, here's "thing someone said" + random twitter comments about it. So one, it spreads the toxic original message of hate from rando idiot conservatives toward the idea of diversity and a melting pot. Then two, it makes us liberals broadly associate all conservatives with the hate message from rando twitter accounts. Imo this is garbage "journalism". If prominent conservative thought leaders are commenting about something on twitter it could be newsworthy, but you probably know that it's probably not when they include users such as "TriangleCyclops", "DPZCrypto", "BoxingMD1", etc. Yep those 3-4 tweets must represent literally millions of people's exact thoughts.
Somebody else remembering their School House Rock:
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Finally a song that captures our thoughts and perspective and how we really feel!
(the song is complete fucking garbage)
Good for him! Fuck the haters
The funny thing is that "melting pot" is generally a conservative term, often used to deny the value of diversity.
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