Honestly charity stuff is great and horrible at the same time and you can criticize a lot of it.
But Dolly is not to blame for the system and within that system, dolly seems to be a fucking Staint. Thanks Dolly!
In her entire life, I have seen no evidence that she has EVER said anything as disgusting as Vance does every single time he speaks. In fact, you are hard pressed to criticize her at all. The only thing I have is that she has said she never wants to comment on politics and I just hope that is not because she secretly has bad views but just wants to keep her image despite that. Who knows.
Even if her views didn’t align to mine, the fact that she does not go around espousing it at every turn (just like her faith), is still reason enough to respect the hell out of her. So she could be secretly batshit crazier than Vance, and I’d still respect her.
I mean, if she is secretly a trump supporter I'm pretty sure her reason to keep it a secret would be entirely selfish so I couldn't agree there. Better than if she shared that view sure but I don't see it being altruistic. I refuse to think she is a trumper though because if she is, then nothing can be pure in this world.
If she's actively trying to help educate people, she's no secret Trump supporter.
I could easily imagine her as either conservative or liberal or somewhere in between or somewhere outside of that whole spectrum. I can't imagine that she is a Trumper.
I expect that her reason for not sharing her political beliefs is at least somewhat selfish. She has fans across the political spectrum, different segments of whom would certainly be upset by any political position she espoused. It could even be that she's concerned about fans being angry and violent depending on what her views actually are.
Regardless, the fact that she doesn't use her popularity to influence politics makes me respect her all the more. I my opinion, it's both a smart decision for her, personally, and shows moral character.
Impressive, let's see Jolene's Appalachia.
It's gotta be beyond compare.
Don't take my country just because you can.
With her no one could compete.
My god, it even has an auburn watermark.
I think it might be relevant to add:
Dolly Parton worked her ass off, GOT LUCKY AND ACKNOWLEDGES IT, to get where she is.
That kind of honesty is early always the way with people from regular etc. backgrounds who made it. Probably because they're surrounded by people who worked just as hard as they did but, through no fault of their own, never stood a chance of making it through bad luck.
But then you'll get some nepobaby, whos had over a million spent on their education, claiming to be a genius for earning a million in their lives, despite only (at best) breaking even.
Or worse, somone like Elon who was given enough free capital that he didn't need to spend on loving to keep spread betting until he got lucky acting like it was all down to him alone and no one else could have done what he did.
They say money unmasks people. She's a saint.
So she's like many of the other childless cat ladies I know.
We get the dolly parton books in the mail and they're great. I read at least one of them every day.
Favorites are "grandpa and Jake" "the rabbit listened" and the most recent one "a book for bear." The from last month is about sending you octopus to school, but it's not as popular in our house. It has a lot of factoids about octopi, it's really for an older audience like 6-8
My younger sister got books from Dolly's programme. We lived in a shitty little council estate in the North of England, and my little sister got to grow up with more books than I did because of a US country music star. It always blew my mind.
I didn't know they did it outside the US! That's awesome!
It's strange.
I didn't think any US politician could be less popular than Hillary Clinton, but the lad's going for it.
Dolly Parton likes Taylor Swift while the orange felon hates Taylor Swift.
Is this about Hillbilly Elegy?
JD "Appalachians are just lazy welfare leeches" Vance
I fucking hate Appalachia as only someone who grew up there can hate it, but God, what a dogshit fucking take from someone else who grew up in that shithole and should know better. Of all the many sins that can be laid at Appalachian regional culture's feet, 'lazy' and 'welfare leech' do not feature.
But it was condescendingly paternalistic enough to please liberals and victim-blaming enough to please conservatives, so it was so highly fucking praised when it came out.
Goddammit.
I thought it was about that. I listened to the episode of "If Books Could Kill" on it. And holy shit, JD's full of shit lol
Michael Hobbs reading the bit where JD questions his sexuality cracks me up.
Thanks for the new podcast recommendation.
You're welcome lol. I first heard about it here on Lemmy too
Yeah, both I and my father grew up in Appalachia before finally moving away, and I'm not saying it's a bastion of intellectualism, but that grifting piece of shit doesn't represent us.
I'm a proud Appalachian. We have some solid history. It's a shame what's become of the place. I still live here in West Virginia. Didn't that lying sack of shit grow up in a suburb of Cincinnati though?
I love and am proud of the history in the place. But as for living there? Man, I was born after right-wing talk radio started inundating the airwaves. Unfortunately, it was never been a pleasant social environment for me to exist in.
Rare case of the past actually being better in some small detail. Bring back labor radicalism in the mountainfolk, please
I fucking hate Appalachia as only someone who grew up there can hate it
As someone who grew up in Florida, this resonates with me so fucking much, lol.
My family traveled quite a bit when I was a kid, and I often found myself riding through Appalachia, and honestly I loved the area around Chattanooga, I genuinely think it's the most beautiful part of the country, in spite of the kudzu. But it's probably the only place I could have moved to in the US that would be definitively worse than the place I left a decade ago.
What are the lowest starting and median wages of her employees at Dollywood?
Glassdoor says average pay is $14.90/hr. I don't know if it is trustworthy or not.
Yeah, at least halfish of her employees are struggling to live. As cheap as the midwest is generally, Pigeon Forge has high property values and high taxes. I know a couple of her employees, they have five people in a shitty two bedroom apartment.
The closest thing Ms. Parton ever did to sin was Rhinestone, and that is still one of my favorite movies of all time.
He gets Appalachia totally wrong anyway. I've started to wonder if he ever left his grandparents' home while he was there.
As a skeptic, I went looking to see if if I could find some fault in her fortune. I found that she genuinely is a good person.
Didn't she finance the research for one of the COVID vaccines as well?
Can you even imagine if someone named her as their VP pick?
Maybe Tim Walz will when he runs for president. What a ticket that would be.
I'm OOTL here. Is Dolly running for VP?
I'm guessing Vance said something insulting about Appalachia.
Vance first rose to prominence a decade ago writing a memoir about growing up in Appalachia, and how the inhabitants were just lazy, violent peons who didn't know how to pull themselves up by their bootstraps like he managed to do.
Now, let me tell you - I grew up in Appalachia. I can give you a long, LONG fucking list of problems with Appalachian regional culture. It's not some idyllic paradise; it's not even 'normal' by the low standards of American society. I was glad to escape. But Vance's memoir, or at least the conclusions he drew from his experiences, was absolute dogshit with very little relation to reality.
It got turned into a movie and everything. Very irritating.
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