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    10 hours ago

    I wrote paragraphs critiquing this sentiment as someone inside the fandom, but I got five paragraphs in and was veering into capitalist realism so I stopped myself.

    Rather than some wordy, pseudo-lefty analysis, I’ll just say we have a glut of people doing that already and it sucks then follow with an emoji.

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  • That show, Duck Dynasty, felt like a step in that direction. I never watched the show, but iirc they were all wealthy from a family business and that picture leaked of them like a decade before the show where they look like they’re out of a Banana Republic ad. The bead and camo thing is a branding exercise which is all that seems like now, a consumer identity.

    Pertaining to your fourth point, there are a lot of guys driving around my area with a redneck affect in $100K+ gigantic pickup trucks that are pristine. I live in a urban area where you have to drive a good 30+ minutes to find something resembling a farm. Amusingly, I grew up in an actually rural, post-industrial Appalachian town on a small family farm so I have more bona fides than most of these people. I just became a leftist instead.