• boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I heard that line as “hey rich people stop fucking kids” as Epstein & the other networks are constantly connected to right wingers

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      1 year ago

      “Minors on an island” is a qanon reference to Epstein and sex trafficking, as part of the satanic cabal that conspired to… whatever… trump.

      In other songs, he’s referencing other things- all of them code phrases used by qanon to talk about their whackadoodle theories without tripping algos to squash the disinformation.

      It’s entirely possible that he doesn’t understand that- but it’s also entirely possible I’m a sentient turnip speaking to you from the future.

      Further the way the song went viral is… not an accident. Somebody… made it go viral, gaming algos in a way to land it on billboard’s top songs list. Something is not what it seems. It might be that he’s totally just freaking clueless- but I really really doubt it.

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        1 year ago

        This is quite a cynical take.

        I assumed he was calling out pedophiles.

        Also it seems like he came out against the Republican take on his line about welfare recipients. Which seems like it would go against the idea of him being some qanon deep cover plant.

        His audience OTOH is maybe a different story.

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          I wish politicians would look out for miners And not just minors on an island somewhere Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat…

          I’m not being cynical at all. I’m just not twisting his words: that’s the exact quote of verse two’s start.

          He’s not calling out pedos. He’s calling government out for “caring more” about epstein’s child sec trafficking than about coal miners. And let’s be honest- most of the economic woes of coal country are from clinging to an industry that’s been dying for the last 2 decades.

          Further, the line “minors on an island” is a qanon reference. He makes other wanton references in other songs. Enough to the extent that it is difficult to not assume he’s qanon. Most people would have just directly called out Epstein, right?

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        1 year ago

        Yes qanonists tried to spin the actual right winger Epstein’s & the other group’s sex trafficking, child sexual abuse etc to be a progressive conspiracy or something.

        Until Ron Watkins became known

        But yes it’s hard to know which the singer meant