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Trump Supporters Have a Meltdown After Green Day Slam 'MAGA Agenda' During New Year's Show
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So you were all okay with "redneck"? Are the rednecks offended by being associated with MAGA? What would be the reaction if some country singer sang "I'm not part of the woke agenda"?
Ugh. Ya know... the reality is that news outlets, Rolling Stone in this case, need to generate attention just as much as the outraged Trump supporters. I have to wonder if us normies are suckers. Why do we fall prey to the need to comment on something so irrelevant?
Edit: So, I just listened to and read the lyrics for American Idiot (it’s been a while and I wasn’t ever all that into Green Day). I hadn’t realized how on-point my comment was. It’s literally about the media manipulating us. Man, what a great song and meta article.
We lack political agency that has any ability to impact the economic arrangements we find ourselves in, instead we react to politics happening, from opposing ends of this economic consensus that alienates us, by engaging in the hyper-real spectacle of politics. This is what the Trump era represents, decaying neoliberal consensus, increasing internalized anxieties, and alienation from political institutions.
Hey, I'm a redneck. I'm probably the most gun shootin'ist, truck ownin'ist, motorcycle ridin'ist poster on here and I sure as fuck don't want to be associated with Trump and his MAGA morons.
Remember the (apocryphal) origin of the term "redneck" is potentially the red bandanas striking mine workers wore, both to show solidarity and to act as battlefield identification (because those people got into gun battles with police and mercenaries a LOT).
Yeah I think a few salty tweets are hardly representative of the image conjured by the headline, but in reality that's all it is.
This could be said about the vast majority of headlines these days. It's exhausting.
Like someone following you around with a megaphone occasionally screaming "fire!" or "oh God the baby!".
We are getting desensitized to the constant one up penmanship of panic and need higher and higher levels to even register. Go watch Faux News some time. It puts a bunch of 8 year old ADHD boys watching an action cartoon while sipping sugary lattes to shame.
If you would have gone back 50 years and said, hey, selling ads on the news is going to be a key part of the unraveling of society as we know it, they would have put you in the loony bin, but here we are.
So exhausting you'll have a meltdown?
If I do you will hear several tweets about it
Yeah, I've found that the language is the same on both sides. It's stupid to have sides.
Unfortunately, most people have to pick a side to survive. Gay people, trans people, ethnic minorities, poor people, etc. Must all fight against fascism just to protect their very existence.
I just do my job and don't bring up any of that at work. Half the people I work with speak either Spanish or French. The French is kinda surprising tbh.
And lots of those folks mentioned are just trying to do their job and mind their own business when some chud walks up and says, apropos of nothing, "what are ya, some kind of f*ggot?" and it just goes from there, typically poorly.
"I just do my job and don't talk about it" isn't the slam dunk you think it is because the people being abused and/or assaulted and/or legislated out of existence, are overwhelmingly also just trying to do their job and not talk about it. All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
I've had dudes call me all sorts of names including that one. It basically doesn't matter. I'm also not making any kind of slam drinksy or whatever. Just wondering why your circumstances are so special but can't approach the topics in any better way than they do.