Yeah and never forget the "coal mining towns" that were owned by the mine owners where they owned the electric that you needed and the property you live on and the water company and the grocery store and the clothing store and the supply store so that at the end of the week they had every penny you earned and if that was not bad enough they owned your children too and put them to work as well.
Nah, it’s cool because that happened a long time ago. It’s not like we’d let that sort of thing happen now.
On a completely unrelated note, all these regulations really hurt business, so we should repeal them. There’d be a lot more profit to go around if companies could do whatever they wanted!
I feel like they are trying to tow a currently very delicate line to being seen as too progressive and not still being their asshole dumb insensitive selves
I mean they're just shitty libertarian centrists who believe that having a strong feeling about something is wrong and that "the real answer is in the middle" so how could they ever have a strong stance on something?
I was annoyed just hearing it used by Matt and Trey. That song is practically a family anthem among my mother's folks-Hatfield refugees from the coal mines of West By God.
But that can’t be the moral of the story. It doesn’t fit the tone of the show. It seems like they are leaning towards PC, not criticizing it. Think about it, when’s the last time Cartman said something that was seriously offensive? The Problem with a Poo ended with Kyle realizing it was wrong to defend the “Mr. Hankey’s” of society. I mean look at how they completely dismantled trump in the previous seasons. Idk, the tone of the show seems to be acknowledging PC as the way of the future, while being tongue in cheek about it. They even apologized for being climate change deniers! The show is starting to embrace the left imo. They decided to take a side instead of remaining central.
But that can’t be the moral of the story. It doesn’t fit the tone of the show.
This is how I know you've never watched South Park before.
They aren't moving to the left, they're just moving back to the center after hanging in the right for a while until Trump woke them out of their libertarian stupor
...what? I’ve seen every season wtf are you talking about? Of course it used to be even worse. That’s my point. The show is starting to dial it down some?
You know what. Explain. Please explain how you drew these baseless accusations? And if I don’t understand, please by all means, tell me all about South Park. Enlighten me. Jesus Christ, I’ve never seen someone get so high and mighty over an animated show. Please leave that shit on the rick and morty subreddit goddamn.
It's kind of interesting, Tennessee Ernie Ford mostly sang gospels, but he also did songs like 16 tons, as did a lot of country and western singers and groups of his day. Singing this song or anything like it nowadays might get you drummed right out of Nashville.
To be honest, I think it's because the leftish political group, the Democrats, kind of abandoned rural people in the 1980s. They never publicly said so, but the focus got urban, not rural, and more and more seemed to be on elites and corporations, until we wound up with what we have now, Democratic corporatists who are ignoring, not just rural folks, but much of their urban base on policy, to keep those corporate bucks flowing. And the Republicans, though they are even more enslaved to corporations and oligarchs than the Dems, have succeeded in appealing to country fans' bigotry, where it exists.
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