MelvinUdall said:
shiftyandquick said:
What's kind of weird is when the guys in the 5th Column don't know that they are in the 5th Column.
You are admiring and praising a genocidal dictator. That is your hint that you are in the 5th Column, MAGA.
Why does Tucker interviewing Putin bother you so much? I still don't understand the outrage about any of this…
Why, because it's literally government propoganda, you know the thing Tucker *****ed about... Let's not pretend it's journalism. Tucker, has, for a long time made an effort to subvert American democracy for conservative, evangical dictatorship. He wants America to have a decades long "conservative" leader LIKE Putin. And the dark part is he crafts his story under the guise of "FrEE SpEEcH". Do you think Putin would allow an uncensored, unedited interview with Biden by Gary Kasparov be aired in Russia since Putin just loves free speech? Forgive me, if through all it's faults, I want a multiparty Democracy even if that means sometimes defending and supporting ideologies I do not agree with #concernedmoderate.
You know what, I will give Tucker a pass if he asks two key questions: #1 all of your serious political opponents have either ended up poisoned, murdered, imprisoned, or died a mysterious death, could you please explain why that seems to happen so frequently and #2, Putin you claim to be a strong Christian, how do you reconcile your "faith" and "thou shalt not kill" with the decision to kill millions of innocent people over your imperial ambitions? If he doesn't ask those two questions (he won't) then you know he's running blatant propoganda for Putin. As I said, I'm sure he'll spend a lot of time talking about Christianity, how hypocritical America is, how bad trans people are, #conservativevalues, the western world is falling apart, NATO is such a threat (but of course European militaries are so weak), CIA coup, Trump is a martyr, Iraq, etc. Etc... But you know, just because you're countercultural doesn't make you inherently righteous. The fact that some of you cannot immediately identify right and wrong in this conflict suggests serious moral, mental, and ethical decay on your part. I'm sure many of you will nod in agreement as if this is not a tailor-made propoganda to get you to have sympathy for Russia. But the truth is, Russia wants to hurt American interests all around the world. They are deepening an alliance with Iran, North Korea, and China (who have no problem handing over piles of weapons to Russia) to undermine America and our interests. Putin wants your life to get orders of magnitude worse and if that means pretending he's on "your" side, then so be it. Tucker has made someone who started a needless land war in Europe and caused untold and endless suffering a sympathetic martyr to the "own the libs" crowd.
It seems so small, distant, and irrelevant now. But I genuinely fear a situation 3 years from now where China begins building up troops to invade Taiwan. Meanwhile Putin masses troops on the Estonia border, and Trump is president. I know some of you believe Trump will magically just dissappear those problems, but Trump proudly states how he won't come to NATOs aid (a sign of real strength of course) so what leverage does he have. I mean who wants to send our sons to fight for Estonia, right? The problem is, if we get to that point we either end up in World War 3 or we end up losing access to many resources that make our standard of life possible while the entirety of Europe is plunged into a land war and that's before talking about the cluster**** that Asia would become. It would be an absolute disaster, even if we weren't in the conflict. Tens or hundreds of millions dead and every supply chain off the North American continent gone.... Depression, hyperinflation, threat of Nuclear strikes and that's if we don't get involved miltarily. This is easily preventable as the window for this happening is small for these autocrats - maybe a decade, probably 5 years. The less strength and unity we project the more likely this outcome is to happen. How do you break American unity and strength? Convince a political ideology that you're actually on their side by talking about their grievances with America. It's not about censorship; it's about what's at stake and how much of a threat to America's interests... YOUR interests... this kind of calculated propoganda is, no matter how much Tucker masks this threat. I know some of you will take the nihilistic approach to what I say, or something to the affect of "Putin is better than democrats". Being an ******* feels good if you're frustrated (probably why Trump is so popular if we're honest - he gives you permission to be an *******). But your life can only be as good or better if America is prosperous going forward. America will not be prosperous if we listen to Putin for inspiration.