Spend the money on more books for kids, so we have fewer regressives in the future
GNU Dolly
Amazing Grace
Submitted 10 hours ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The president we should have had.
pachrist@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I cannot imagine how hard it is to be as kind, loving, and gracious as she is, but to be surrounded by a world with so much willful anger, hate, and misery.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
We don’t deserve Dolly.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
This isn’t a shit post at all. Don’t take it down, but it’s not shit.
Naich@lemmings.world 10 hours ago
Dolly Parton is 100% class. One of the good ones.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
TIL that Dolly Parton entered in and lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest at some drag bar in LA in 2012
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
“All of these other beautiful drag queens had worked for months and weeks getting their clothes and all that, and they were dressed like me,” Parton explained in a 2012 interview. “So, I just got in the line and I just walked across [the stage] and they just thought I was some little, short gay guy. And I got the least applause, but I was just dying laughing inside. I say it’s a good thing I was a girl or I’d be a drag queen.”
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’d heard that story before, had no idea it was a drag bar
the_q@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Imagine if all southerners were like Dolly.
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Not just an 80s country singer. One that was mocked mercilessly as a big tit bimbo for years. She came out of that kind hearted and when Unknown Hinson came after her for preaching kindness there was such a backlash that he couldn’t play shows for a while and Adult Swim fired him from Squidbillies.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The Imagination Library alone is a true blessing
zipsglacier@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The imagination library is fucking amazing.
9point6@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The US doesn’t deserve Dolly as a national treasure, she’s a treasure of the world
In spite of the USA we have today
ceenote@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Let’s agree that next time they wanna put up a statue of a confederate general, they put one up of Dolly instead. That way, everyone wins, except the loser general.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Many of those loser generals were self aware enough to specifically state that no statues or memorials of them should ever be made. Then Wilson came along…
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
God bless DP
cadekat@pawb.social 5 hours ago
And Dolly Parton!
glitch1985@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
And Dr. Pepper
Codandchips@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Class
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
All the more reason to build statues of her when we sort out some more serious problems.
I love Dolly. Her kindness and grace is an example to the world. She spent her own money to help rebuild the Gatlinburg area after fires destroyed it. She has a free program called Imagination Library that sends monthly books to children. It started regionally, and now she offers it to multiples countries.
She is so much better than the government of Tennessee. There’s a reason everyone wanted her to run for Governor.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I gotta say, given the state of Tennessee at the moment, I would not want my statue anywhere near the other icons they’re raising.
dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
We need more like her.
dephyre@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Everyone liked that
hOrni@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I wonder how will they react, given that Robert E. lee didn’t want statues.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
“yes he did. yes she does.”
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Goddamned saint.
Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
As an artist, I find this totally relatable. “Gosh, please don’t erect a statue right now. A statue sounds nice, though. I am not saying not to build me a statue. Please immortalize my likeness.”