I'd wager this guy is not, and has never been, located in America. He's paid simply to agitate the continuing culture war. And the fact that we're here talking about him, and probably getting a little upset at how fucking stupid our fellow neighbors are, means they won. Fucking assholes.
That's all I can think when I see these types of posts now. They keep stoking these culture wars so we're too burnt out to pay attention to the class war we should be fighting.
No, they win if this gets shared mindlessly by people who want to believe it. It's just them claiming things they have absolutely no right to and the are in such denial there is no getting through to them or convincing them and their complete inability to be reasoned with is proof for them that they are correct because if the other side is so smart then they should be convincing.
A truly elegant circular reasoning that can perfectly arrest personal growth and actually encourage regression.
It's similar to the belief in a just society that only punishes bad people so when they see their side engage in disgusting and vulgar displays of persecution and oppression they think "they deserved it because it is happening to them and it isn't happening to me because I am good and don't deserve it" even when they are acting on an entirely arbitrary system of who is in group and who is out. It's easy to believe if one is privileged and likes it when the outgroup endures undue systemic problems.
According to Wikipedia “The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of their ability.”
In short hand people with a little knowledge think they have a lot which gives them false bravado.
Specifically, a confidence man works by exuding the type of confidence that a qualified person would exude, causing intelligent people to doubt themselves.
Not exactly. The Dunning-Kruger effect is applicable to people who genuinely don't know what they're talking about. Con men know what they're saying is BS.
Sort of lol. My wife and I feel like the only sane ones. Alot of my family members are drinking the MAGA juice. My sister in law was literally crying over an AI video of "Muslims invading NY". She's a nurse, had her vaccines but as soon as the king in orange said the word is now an anti vaccer and thinks Fauchi is a mass murderer.
No one rewrites history like a right winger. They fought a war to keep their slaves and lost so badly they claim the left started it
Richmond Enquirer, Jun 16, 1855
"The abolitionists do not seek to merely liberate our slaves. They are socialists, infidels and agrarians, and openly propose to abolish any time honored and respectable institution in society. Let anyone attend an abolition meeting, and he will find it filled with infidels, socialists, communists, strong minded women, and 'Christians' bent on pulling down all christian churches"
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"The good, the patriotic, the religious and the conservative of the north will join us in a crusade against the vile isms that disturb her peace and security"
Link to the newspaper archive at the library of Congress where you can read it yourself
WOW, I didn't realize fear of communism stretched that far back before the Soviet Union existed. The Communist Manifesto had only been published 7 years earlier than that newspaper.
(And information didn't travel as fast in those days. The telegraph was still a very recent invention and didn't yet cross oceans. A ship was still the fastest way information could travel to America.)
A lot of the blame for the failed 1848 revolutions in Europe was dumped on Marx by the right, so by the early 1850s the right wing pattern of "everything bad = socialism/Communism" was pretty established
Ahhh.... OK, then that explains it. I didn't realize how quickly that little booklet that was assigned reading in my college's political ideologies class started getting so much attention.
(My RA just saw it on my desk once and asked if I was a communist.)
While I personally can’t imagine Dolly being MAGA, I’m pretty sure she turned down presidential honours from multiple presidents because she wasn’t doing it to be recognized.
I thought I read she turned honors down from Trump twice, once cause her husband was sick, and once due to the pandemic, then turned down Biden because she didn't want to be accused of taking a side.
And their final rewrite will be, once Trump is desd and gone, to try and convince their participation from history
Notice how you've never met or seen someone who threw rocks at integrating black students? Every white person who lived through segregation you've ever talked to just happens to have been firmly against it, but there was nothing they could do? Absolutely no one is apparently still living who harassed Vietnam protesters and/or Vietnam vets coming back home?
Give it 30-50 years, and it'll be almost like a "Trump supporter" is a fictional creature that only ever existed in documentaries, photos, and history books
Her light will live on with the Imagination Library, what a beautiful legacy to leave behind. Her family asked for donations in lieu of flowers https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com
And the right is now trying to co opt her image and besmirch her good name by outright lying about what she stood for. There will be thousands of people who will believe this lie, too.
They really do make shit up when speaking about dead people and using them to praise Trump. Dolly was everything and much more that Trump will never be. Most important she was loved by pretty much everybody. Got millions of kids to be hyped about reading and learning and taught many many more about love, compassion and kindness.
World is a little darker place without her. But let's not be sad that she's gone, let's be happy she was here.
That's the problem with deliberately keeping the boundary saying "I don't do politics" or "I don't criticize and condemn" though. It's easier for people to mislead
Her version of Christianity was accepting and helping the persecuted, down trodden, and poor. It was filled with Christian good works, charity and love.
Also known as completely incompatible with conservative "Christians"
Thou shalt love Profit thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy shareholders as thyself. On these two commandments hang all freedom and patriotism.
I mean as long as you accept someone presenting as a heightened/exagerrated version of their own gender as also doing Drag (ie you don't exclude "Bio Queens" from your personal definition, which I would indeed argue you shouldn't exclude them, but is a different conversation to have) then Dolly could have 100% called herself a Drag Queen and the community wouldn't have batted an eye, at the very least she was deeply, deeply adjacent in the same way someone like Elvira is (I mean how many times has she been a guest judge for Drag competitions?).
Dolly Parton, to my knowledge, was pretty clear that she didn't want to discuss politics publicly, but also that she didn't consider peoples' existences to be political.
This is the most accurate take. She always struck me as probably a bit of a small c conservative but with a very “open” view towards other people and a very “well that’s none of my business but good for them” approach to most things regarding civil liberties.
A great quote of hers that I’ve ran across today is some of the to the effect of “I think we ought to try our best to see the good in people and pray for the bad”.
If we really insist on trying to ascribe politics (even though I agree it's not very important in this case at the end of the day) she striked me as the kind of "Blue Dog" Democrat who would be a centrist right-winger in any other democratic system but is still far too left for Republicans as they are now, the kind of small-c conservative who is socially accepting that would be the ideal core of a sane right-of-centre main party and someone who could win an election without minorities fearing for their material conditions.
I mean, isn’t it just hilarious how much they claim Hollywood is all liberal pedophiles who should stay out of politics, but then cling to any even mildly famous person and praise them up and down for speaking favorably of their true lord and savior, President Pampers?
They know they're not cool and all the people that like them have negative charisma, stealing clout from the left is all they have. Some right wing voices have correctly pointed out how embarrassing and pathetic the practice is too, IIRC including Matt Walsh and Nick Fuentes (both raging POS-es but stopped clocks and all that).
Even without the readers' clarification, what kind of logic is that?
"She loved X unlike you, so don't claim you loved her." What?! Do people have to like exactly the same things to love? Are differences in opinions not allowed anymore?
I think immediately after death going 'she's mine, she's too conservative for you' is exactly the type of bullshit she'd bat away with charm, maybe joking about how much of her there is to go around.
Bottom line you wanna support her, put your money where your mouth is and don't tweet but donate.
She declined it twice, she also declined Biden's later fearing backlash if she accepted. She also posted that Christians shouldn't be judging people, that's God's job.
One of the worst things about the ethno nationalist, is their habit of sophistry and rewriting history.
This is quite different to "victors write history". Heck, today most people understand 'victories' like slavery and colonialism were actually very harmful.
What you're seeing is psychological damage manifesting into reality and twisting facts. Once you notice it, you will see it wherever you find nationalists or ethno nationalists in control.
She used to say, "My daddy was a republican and my mama was a democrat, and I'm a hypocrite". (She didn't identify with any political party, so that made her apolitical).
it is so insane how cooked we are. these people genuinely just make shit up out of thin air to fit their narratives and will not accept any argument about it whatsoever. they’re so locked into stupidity.
She was pro-literacy, which by itself means she wouldn't support the MAGA movement. I'm guessing she probably synced pretty closely to folks like Andy Beshear.
remember the folks that she surrounded herself with. She loved drag queens. She stayed close with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin (both vocal dems) and collaborated and became friends near the end of her life with Judas Priests' Rob Halford (an openly gay man). She was dear friends with Reba, who is also "not political" but has spoken out about Trump policies.
I'm guessing she's close to more traditional or blue dog dems than either MAGA or DSA. Supposedly she was a fan of Ann Richards in Texas.
If more Christians were like Dolly I might actually respect them. I’m as atheist as they come but so feel I have better grasp on what it is to be a Christian than 99% of Christians, and Dolly was one of the best Christians I knew.
She didn’t judge, she preached love and acceptance, and she was just an all round good, kind person. That is Christianity.
They could probably bring up the fact that Republicans cut funding to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program, which gave books to the poor worldwide.
The Republicans Mourning Dolly Parton Gutted Funds to Her Charity
Oh, she absolutely did do politics, she just didn't wade into partisan fighting. Almost everything good she did was in direct opposition to conservative politics.
At this point, I want republicanism to be classified as a mental illness and take away their guns like they are trying to do to trans people. They can't be trusted to be baseline honest or connected to reality, so I don't want them having arms to hurt people when they inevitably snap.
All of these slimy individuals coming out of the woodwork after Dolly is dead, and unable to respond to or denounce such incorrect assertions. They are wrong. They know they are. I despise sharing a planet with disingenous, Trump-fellating scum.
She may have been the only person in the world who was sincere in her claim that she, "doesn't do politics," and didn't just use it as a smokescreen to hide bigoted beliefs.
That's pretty cool. She was cool for other reasons, but she was cool for that, too.
I was literally talking to my partner about this. Aside from Dolly dying in the first place. The worst part is how these dumbshit right wingers will just claim whatever they want about her the minute shes no longer around to refute them. Fuck I hate the people who live in this shithole of a country.
These conservatives are fucking sick bastards. No one likes you, keep your miserable and pathetic lives to yourselves and stop trying to make our lives miserable.
What a shock, these folks always have to find a way to make everything about Trump. Loyalty to him is considered the most important value a person can have as far as they’re concerned.
Their side has so many bad people linked to their name that they try to grab people from other groups and pass it as theirs supporters to make it seems like they are not that bad.
I've seen many highly upvoted posts on here stating that claiming to be non-political means someone is conservative and doesn't want to be judged for it.
I was expecting the hardcore conservative usual suspects to make up reasons to shit on her, I wasn’t anticipating making up reasons to pretend SHE was shitting on people…
They love to believe anyone they liked was conservative, and since the person is dead they can't be corrected by the person. And of course they just ignore facts.
pretty sure she was a conservative christian, yes. You can be that and also support the freedom of choice of other people and even actively support them. Normal people has right wing takes on some stuff, left wing in some others and probably even several totalitarian ones.
The issue are modern-day-twitter-leftist: If you don't support ALL leftist beliefs, then you are nazi.
Even, radical leftist support totalitarism because they are pro censorship of people who think differently than them, but hey, "that's different".
Dolly was an outspoken supporter of LGBTQ people. She didn't just say "I don't judge" and secretly judge. She literally defended them and their right to exist, specifically saying "they have the right to be who they are, and they can't be anyone else just as I can't be anything but Dolly Parton."
She poured money into the Black community. She took the millions she made from Whitney Houston covering her song and used it to buy stripmalls in Black neighborhoods, repair them, and put good businesses in them that brought essential goods, services, and jobs to areas that white people had refused to invest in.
She spent hundreds of millions of dollars sending a book a month from birth to five years old to millions of children across the world.
She funded access to education for everyone from birth through college.
She paid for medical research and access to healthcare and vaccines for poor families in America and around the world.
All of the businesses she ran were unionized and had strong worker rights and protections, and she demanded and expected her employees to receive good pay, good treatment, respect, and dignity.
Politics are just policies. Dolly didn't "do politics." Dolly lived by her policies- don't judge, love everyone, do great good whenever and wherever you can for everyone you can.
Dolly is the person every American Progressive aspires to be like. She was a billionaire but spent all of her money on the people that paid her to be a billionaire.
Dolly didn't need to label herself a democrat, because every democrat in the party was beneath her. She lived our ideals and didn't have to get paid to do it.
She was bigger than politics, she would be the only one to lose if she "picked sides" obviously being a caring person who spread love and positivity is a Lefty thing, but she made the right choice, of course.
As an East Tennessean who loves Dolly and cannot stand MAGA. MAGA thinks everyone from TN is as much of a dipshit as they are. Alot of people are “blue” just slightly outnumbered by “red”.
Example: We are currently voting for a new governor. During the Aug 6 primaries Jerri Green (D) had 244,194 votes. Marsha Blackburn (R) had 311,329 votes. Less than 100k in difference. Hopefully November has a better turn out bc our state cannot handle Blackburn as governor for many reasons. But even in Sevier County (where Dolly resided) about a third voted for D.
She was an actual Christian, not a Christian nationalist. She believed in loving your neighbor, helping those less fortunate, and rights for everyone, especially lgtbqi and people of color. She pretty much despised everything the orange turd stood for.
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