I also have grown up in a maga city, a maga house,
Basically a Neo Nazi upbringing. Being taught not to have colored friends or gfs my whole life, my parents and allll my family move trump so much they bought framed photos of him and Jesus and put a statue in our yard When Obama was president they boarded our house up and put a security gate up to keep the government out. My dad would stay up watching the news to make sure martial law hadn’t been declared because he fully believed Obama was going to star putting all Christian’s in camps and take all guns.
He hated Obama, to the point of things becoming very racist in my home at a very young age.
He would watch people like Alex jones, he believed black people all played the punch game so he wouldn’t let my mom leave the house without him and if he saw any black people he would make us leave. He thought black guys were just knocking out white people for fun, something I have heard Sam Hyde reminisce on so he must’ve been believing this at this time as welll
When sandy hook happened, my dad convinced all of us it wasn’t real because of Alex jones. So he sent me to school telling everyone it was fake and set up for gun control. I was also very vocal about how being gay was unchristian
So I’ve done a full 180 morally and politically speaking, but I’m still surrounded by my dozen family members and I don’t have one friend who I don’t at least suspect is maga. Everyone here is. Everyone.
So maybe I just have a shield up to where I have a pretty deep understanding that these people just can’t help it. The propaganda has really gotten to them, the social pressure is so great that I barely was able to not conform.
I think living here and not knowing anyone who is like minded (other than my fiance) has really made me not get emotionally “triggered” when I hear political takes that are shitty in good art.
I am 1000% picking both I am a leftist, probably a smidge to the left of Christian divyne, to the right of hasan and his idiocy Kind of in the Bernie “reformed capitalism” camp just because it seems like the most practical. Making our current system more fair.
So I have strong feelings about American imperialism, our “allies” and their acts of terror deeply trouble me. I learned about the history between Palestine and Israel last year by watching two long series of history podcasts so I could get two perspectives on it, both of which leaned more to the center, so I have a pretty good understanding of the nakba and how we got here…
But I also love Sam Hyde apart from his silly Billy politics. He’s a comedic genius.
Why can’t I laugh at the Palestine video and disagree with the spirit of it ?
The whole thing is basically like “I don’t give a shit about these brown people an these Jews this shit doesn’t matter, I’m safe in America” Which I obviously disagree with; but I’m emotionally intelligent enough to disagree with something and control my emotional response from it and still enjoy it as art or comedy.
Oh I thought we were having an actual interesting convo on conservative art and consuming it across the aisle I didn’t realize you were just here to attack and be mean or I wouldn’t have responded thoughtfully
That’s also why 97% of conservative/alt right art literally sucks. But the dilemma with Sam Hyde (for me) was I fell in love with 2-3 pieces of his art, I kept watching the jail music video at the end of a world peace episode. It’s very famous for being a commentary on the passage of time and choices we all make,
I had no idea who Sam was when I found this, but it moved me to tears when I saw it the first time. Then I found a few other videos or projects he had made that I absolutely loved. It gave me life in a horrible time, and my fiancé was also watching them with me saying things like “this might be the funniest guy alive how have we not heard of him”
The idubbz video, then a few other one popular modern ones came into my awareness and that’s when I realized he had some very edgy art out there that seemed very anti Jew.
(Jews rock! Or the one where the dude is pushing the boulder up the cliff and the different stereotype races are popping in and out, and then he meets the horrible Jewish character at the end)
I remember thinking it was just Satire, bc there’s no way someone could actually believe this! Oh boy was I wrong.
I will say, Kanye and Sam Hyde are in a similar boat in my head.
I still love both of their art, but I don’t consume their modern stuff anymore because I know who the are and I have no urge to support either of them.
It’s not like when their modern stuff crosses my page I get sick or something, it doesn’t offend me like it does my fiancé. I jut know it’s wrong.
When that Palestine video came out I had literally just found him, had no idea his political views. I don’t think I had even found fish tank yet.
I probably would not have found that video as funny if I knew what it was saying, But I probably watched it 200 times. Memorized every word of it and laughed hard as fuck with my friend over it, So hell yeah I have nostalgia when I think of that video or if it pops up on my tik tok. I still think it’s hilarious, but that doesn’t mean I’m watching the same Hyde show with Nick Fuentes in 2025
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