🎶Got an old truck🎶
🎶Got some beer🎶
🎶Got an old dog🎶
🎶Got a weird sense of nationalism that won’t let me identify with anyone but people who look exactly like me🎶
Goated KOTH moment. o7
When I was a preacher I did a sermon around that episode. It's got a legitimately great message at the end about the perils of trying to make spirituality hip.
I'm sure they received the message well! XD
They really, legitimately did. I had many people tell me it was their favorite sermon ever.
It was one of my better ones, because it focused on what the church was doing well and what it was doing wrong, both from a social and a spiritual standpoint.
It's easy for a church to turn into a Chistian Club, where it's more about seeing your friends every week than anything else. And that's not all bad. With the decline of the Church we are losing some of the social glue of communities. It's a place where a bank executive and a bagger from Walmart can be legitimate friends without barriers between each other.
But the flip side of the Christian Club is they can become isolated and focus so much on the internal community and friendships they've built that they stop reaching out into the community at large. And while a lot of people here appreciate the lack of religious folks on every corner, it can prevent the members of the Church from benefitting the community at large.
In much of the country, the church had the fastest boots on the ground in an emergency for centuries. When now, programs like the United Methodist Committee on Relief can deploy huge resources all over the country with zero paperwork.
I once saw them buy 20 acres of land to build a evacuation/mid-term housing camp for fire refugees for cash money within hours of a disaster declaration. When the national guard arrived they set up their command station at a site the Methodists had prepped for them - it was incredible to see.
And they stayed working in that community for the better part of a decade until everyone had a home again.
But with the move to make Christiandom more hip, cool, and marketable it's become more inwardly-focused and has been enriching the Osteens of the world while abandoning the call to aid others and playing into the hands of the political right.
Religion isn't for everybody. But the church is capable of doing so much good in the world, and an important part of making it great again is to stop trying to market it like a business that's competing for the attention of the TV station and book deals, but to simply practice the kindness and compassion that we preach.
But the church is capable of doing so much good in the world, and an important part of making it great again is to stop trying to market it like a business that's competing for the attention of the TV station and book deals, but to simply practice the kindness and compassion that we preach.
Even billionaires pick on a charade of "charity" after exploiting and benefitting off of atrocities they caused after they're on the top.
It's really easy to call yourself a force of good, when you pretend to fix the problems you created to get to the top.
making it great again
Like the crusades? Hoarding wealth for the rich? diddling children? forced conversions? missionaries bringing diseases to native people?
No blooody thanks mate, religion going extinct would be a net positive for the world. There are genuine non-profits who don't use the fear of god and hell to help people without a need for a sky daddy. They can take your place and your sermons will not be missed.
Positive adjective, rual noun
Cold beer
Warm night
Red pick-up
and something about hunting or fishing thrown in there and you now have a modern country song
Thanks, Bo Burnham!
Beau Burnham has one about this...
You dumb mother fuckers want a key change?
Removing the tracking so they might not immediately associate our accounts when I click it. Probably know it, love Bo.
Ah thanks man. Didn't even think about that. I appreciate it
They lured us in with 20 years of copying “””un”””tracked URLs…
The alt country folks have too, but that’s also because they didn’t like the sound Nashville was peddling
That strain of nationalism predates 9/11. Sometimes even out of those same outlaw country artists. Johnny Cash did Man in Black, but also Ragged Old Flag.
It all started with Okie From Muskogee in response to the Summer of Love
Then there's Dixon Dallas:
He's bouncing off my booty cheeks, I love the way he rides
I can hardly breathe when he's pumping deep inside
I kiss him on his neck and then he kisses on my bussy
Call him daddy while I holler "Man, that boy so damn good lookin'!"
That is impressively out there. Good for them!
What bro country sounds like to people who don't like bro country https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CORANvT8l9A
Every time I make fun of country I’ll sing some made up lyrics like “got a girl in my truck and my truck in my beer” so I definitely laughed when I heard this parody because it’s basically the same thing.
There's still some outlaw type country out there. Just have to search more.
Ford truck month country is a blight tho
Outlaw country still exists and garbage pop country has been a thing since the 60s. Stop listening to the Top 40.
Cherlene is the queen of outlaw country.
"Outlaw different country woooooo!"
Toby Keith is the prime example of that. His early stuff was great. Should've Been a Cowboy is one of my all time favorite country songs. And then he got obnoxious and shitty, but man did he make a lot of money off racists.
Can we start a petition to make the good "country" music be called something else and all of the any other genre, but with a fake accent and nationalism just be country? The name is tainted by decades of shit music and shit people that only care about WHITE MERICA.
Tangentially related : https://youtu.be/jRdkrDk0BQ0?feature=shared
Canadian country: https://youtu.be/LOmvIPywfms?si=kaICflBl1G0-lEW8
Havin BBQ in the backyard,
Bombin Iraq in my heart,
Ate too many beans,
Now it’s time to fart.
Even good country had its nationalists. Marty Robbins made some certified bangers but he was also a nationalist who made a song in support of the Vietnam war.
Bud light?
White Claw plz
Bud light is too accepting of trans people.
Country music listeners aren't exactly Pabst Blue Ribbon's key demo.
And they don’t drink Bud light anymore ever since Budweiser treated a trans person as a person who has a right to exist.
Yeah, it needed to be some bud heavies or whatever piss flavor water they are drinking. I think the creator picked Pabst because of the colors
Following the Chicago fire and the destruction of their breweries, Milwaukee breweries were able to step up to provide the masses with beer. Transporting the beer on ships traversing lake Michigan breweries like Best were able to grow and expand.
Philip Best only had daughters, one of them married a ship captain that had worked on the transport ships. He ended up more or less running the brewery. Out of appreciation for his contribution in 1889 they renamed the brewery Pabst Brewing Company after Captain Pabst.
The company also was a successful cheese producer and the cheese side was eventually bought out by Kraft.
ON WISCONSIN!
Country music in the 50s: I tripped and fell into a burning ring of fire and fell down down down
Orville Peck is real country then ;) 🏳️🌈
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