Twenty hours in and it’s up to me to remind people that Dolly Parton is the full package?
She’s got tunes, OK ‘I Will Always Love You’ is a bit cloying but the rumour is that she also wrote Jolene the same day
She supports other women. When porn star Julia Parton was around and telling people that she was Dolly’s cousin, Dolly’s public response was something like, 'She ain’t my cousin but I can’t condemn what she does… it’s not like I ever tried to hide my breasts. Good luck to her.'
She produced Buffy The Vampire Slayer through her production company Sanddollar. She kept a low profile publicly but behind the scenes was very supportive of the show because it provided good role models for young women.
She funds the Dolly Parton Imagination library which mails free books to kids under five.
Dolly Parton is a rich theme park owner who has abused her employees and she pals around with mass murderers like George W. Bush.
At a certain point she had credibility. She came from a poor Appalachian background and made music reflecting that. After a certain point though, after decades in the industry, she completely flipped. Her 9 to 5 song used to be a genuine anthem for struggling working class people, then she flipped it a few years ago as “5 to 9” for a Sqaurespace commercial, glorifying the idea of working a second job after your main one.
She’s the exact problem of modern country music. It’s made and financed by people too rich to be connected to humanity anymore.
It’s hard to say, while he did grow up stuck in a western town, outside of racing there’s not much else known about his life outside of what’s been show by him and his son.
You can’t make assumptions based on the stereotypes.
I know, that’s why I’m asking, for all I know he was very liberal. I’m not a NASCAR guy by any stretch and don’t know anything about these guys, but I know what the fans tend to be like.
Yeah, seconded. He’s in a business surrounded by right wingers and right wing fans. It would be highly unlikely that he didn’t lean hard right, but sometimes these guys surprise you. Like Garth Brooks being a super-popular country singer back in the day but being very liberal - of course that political stance wasn’t talked about at all during the height of his fame.
News to me. I don’t know anything about Brooks beyond that he sounds like every other country music guy, so I definitely just painted him with the same brush as what I know about the rest.
Dale Sr. never really spoke about politics one way or the other, but it’s worth noting that his son is an open progressive in an industry that appeals almost entirely to the Conservative crowd. Is there any reason in particular you think Dale Earnhardt was a typical republican?
Edit: after a little more research it seems that Dale was probably a traditional Southern conservative but not what we would call today as a MAGA conservative. An excerpt from this article reads:
Dale’s daughter Kelley recalled an incident that occurred in her childhood, when her father placed a bumper sticker reading “American By Birth / Southern By The Grace Of God” on the rear of his truck. The family’s black housekeeper mentioned that the sticker, which featured the Confederate flag, made her uncomfortable. Dale immediately took a pen knife and slashed the flag off his truck, leaving the expression of Southern pride while divorcing it from the region’s sour history.
I also believe that he wanted to use the extra profits that Ford made to invest into better processes to make the cars cheaper and to increase the wages and conditions of the workers.
Then the share holders sued him saying that he had an obligation to give them their share of the profits and won…
Yeahhh. That writing, too, lmao. As a Carolinian, the little faded "comrade" was a good one. Down to earth and huge hearted as he was said to be, I don't think the christian republican co-owner of Dale Earnhardt Inc. is your friendski, pal
I would have said god is a fascist. There’s a real “do what I’ve decided is best for you, or there will be hell to pay” (pun intended) vibe throughout his interactions with humanity.
But he does always seem to need money, so maybe you have a point.
Me after finishing every RPG I’ve ever played ever: "Well I guess I could have used all those really powerful items I’ve been saving the entire game in that last fight if I had known it was the last fight… " If you tell me an item is super powerful and in extremely limited quantity, I will essentially never use it before the game is over out of fear of needing it later.
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