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[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance. The original line is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.”

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.

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well, maybe I'm the removed, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

a few salty tweets are hardly representative of the image conjured by the headline

This could be said about the vast majority of headlines these days. It's exhausting.

[-] yarr@feddit.nl 5 points 10 months ago

So exhausting you'll have a meltdown?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

If I do you will hear several tweets about it

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