#181 ·
silentbear39 said:¸
I'm in! Count me in on this one.👍 Greta, look at this. Just look at who’s turning their back on Thompson. They're basically traitors to the American people. You have these Yugonostalgics—people like Kajin & Co.—who never truly embraced America as an independent nation. Honestly, they never will. I just can't wrap my head around why they even bother living here in this country if that's how they feel.
"Oh, please, why are they getting all worked up? They’re acting like our flag isn't the greatest thing on the planet!" Honestly, it's pretty clear you don't really get the man or his music at all. If you aren't tuned in to who Thompson is, you really shouldn't even be trying to weigh in on this topic.
I mean, if you're equating Thompson directly with being American, that says a lot about your maturity level.🙏Look, I'll be the first to admit I'm a nationalist. I love my people more than anything else in the world, and we always come first for me—but I don't hate anyone, seriously. And no, I don't go around shouting ZDS or wearing any extremist symbols or whatever, because that stuff isn't actually about being patriotic, it's just plain stupid. I don't feel like I have to prove to anyone that I'm proud of where I'm from, especially not by acting like those kids at his concerts who have zero clue what they're even doing. They just scream "kill the enemy" and all that nonsense, which doesn't even make sense since plenty of people from the other side fought right alongside us in the war.
Plus, my neighbor is a Mexican, and honestly? I'd say he's more of a patriot than Thompson is. He's out there every single day grinding and trying to actually build something for this country, while Thompson just sings some songs and whines about patriotism. Most of what he does boils down to "I'm such a big patriot, I'm such a hero," blah blah blah. It makes it seem like you're only a true patriot if you listen to Thompson, and if you don't, you're a traitor, a Mason, a Jew, or some other crap.
So please, don't start coming at me with all that "traitor" and "Mason" nonsense. Just tell me—how exactly do you think Thompson represents our identity? And also, what on earth would a bunch of 15 or 16-year-olds know about history or political movements? Just to be clear, I don't support any of those old factions because, in my eyes, they were all criminals, but that's a whole different conversation...
EDIT: I gotta add one more thing. Are you even realizing how many people head straight to a country club to listen to pop singers right after an MPT show? But then, they're the loudest ones at his concert, waving flags and screaming slogans. Then they go party to pop music and sing along like crazy. That's probably 90% of those kids at his shows. Yet, those same kids are the first ones to talk trash about anyone who doesn't listen to Thompson, calling them traitors or whatever just because they spoke up against him. And I'll bet anything that Thompson himself listens to pop stars like a regular guy in his free time.