Since countering Aldean's claim the video only contains "real news footage," Destinee Stark has received a wave of hateful messages from defenders of the song.

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[–] 58 points 3 years ago* (16 children)

See how far you make it down the road because he has a gun... which he will use as a pointing device to politely direct you elsewhere.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (15 children)

    I mean this song is dumb as fuck but the quote is misleading.

    That last line is the start of a second verses focusing on how you can't take his granpappy's gun - it's not part of a continued threat from the first verse

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago

    The entire thing is a threat of violence, see all the un-bolded parts. Like literally what is different about a small town in this song which forces people to stop burning flags, except that they will violently prevent you from exercising your first amendment rights?

    Immediately mentioning a gun is specifying gun violence but threatening violence in reaction to free speech in general is illegal and an immoral call for vigilante justice.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Yes the implied violence and the introduction of grandpas gun are purely coincidental! How misleading of OP!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (7 children)

    It is misleading. The second verse literally has its own implied threat.

    Got a gun that my granddad gave me

    They say one day they're gonna round up

    Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck

    This is just how songs, paragraphs, and language in general work.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just because the second verse literally has its own implied threat does not mean the first verse is unrelated. In songs and paragraphs adjacent sentences are typically related- its how English works- but I can't speak for all languages.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Working hard defending this guy aren't you?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    No. I'm against people intentionally misleading others even when I agree with their general thrust.

    If people stopped buying in when they were being obviously mislead, we wouldn't have had Trump

    This really shouldn't be such a hard concept for you to grasp.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's a lot of words to say, 'yeah, I am spending a lot of personal, unpaid time to defend someone I don't know'.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Exactly.

    Also, these motherfuckers can't see the joke in my comment. People be trippin hard lol

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