re: #110 teleskiguy

Putting aside the proven fact that Finnicum was a grifting, family-abandoning apocalyptic freakazoid with bizarre fantasies about murdering police -

He may be the only person from the whole kennel who acted with something approaching integrity. He said he was OK with dying, and that he wasn’t going to jail, and he intended to go down shooting, and he did, sort of. Out of this entire Fuckparade of Redneck Dada, he’s been the only person who put his money where his mouth was.

Men all over the world might feel a twinge of something when a guy who wears a cowboy hat non-ironically dies. The American cowboy is a popular image all over the world for a reason. “Fuck The Police” was his creed, and he died on his back under the Oregon sky with his hat still on. It’s enough to inspire a country song. Johnny Cash wrote about lawbreaking assholes plenty of times.

Finnicum was a disgusting sociopath, but it’s strange to see something that feels like a folk ballad playing out on Youtube in 2016.

The stories of American Assholes never really die, they just change media.