Toby Keith dies from stomach cancer at the age of 62
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Ah yeah, the guy that helped inspire Patriotism by the truck load during the Iraq War when it was beneficial to do so to the tune of trillions of lost dollars and wasted American lives, only to turn around and say "nu uh I never supported Iraq, only Afghanistan I was tricked too!!" once it wasn't popular to be pro-war anymore.
The one who bragged about being a lifelong Democrat and not living a conservative life in the slightest, but made sure to grift off and fake it for those who thought he did?
But sure, I guess he made fun music.
I don't know much about him but I agree that retconning dead celebs into saints is really NPC behavior.
Its not even retconning. He has been open about all of those facts since like 2007.
Its people who literally fell for an open and admitted grift for 20 straight years because he said all the words they wanted to hear and then they looked no further at it.
I try to separate art from artist, so it doesn't ruin my enjoyment of the art.
His art was used and intended as a literal call to get people to sign up for a pointless war that he continued to scream about until the moment it stopped making him famous, when he immediately backtracked and pretended he never wanted that. Which of course brought back all the young men who went and died in that war the moment he said "oopsie, sorry guys, I'm not giving the money back though." Its a bit bigger than Mark Hamill being a retard on twitter.
You can enjoy his art all you want, but him as a person should have his grave pissed on. Not lionized as some "True Patriot."
Indeed, so many people have goldfish memory.