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Tucker Carlson Turns a Christian Presidential Forum Into a Putin Showcase (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 65 points 1 year ago

Imagine telling people you love america so much, that you fully support the ideals of an autocratic suppressive foreign regime.... AND PEOPLE BUY IT. Republicans are bringing this country down by the help of useful idiots - on the stage and in the seats.

[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

They spent most of the 20th century telling us that Russia was the biggest threat to the world. 25 years later Russia starts invading its neighbouring countries and the halfwits are taking the Russian side.

[-] Robbeee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They said the Soviet Union was the biggest threat to the western world. Now they're supporting the ghouls who devoured its corpse.

[-] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine rooting and fully supporting the actual enemy of the values, way of life and political views of your own country. Because that's what Russia and Putin are. That means being a traitor even by the enemy standards

[-] i_had_name@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The dude is sucking some Russian cock.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Dudes a Russian plant. What more evidence is needed. Get him the fuck out of here.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Why does a "Christian presidential forum" exist? People need to keep their death cult book clubs out of politics.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Because tolerant liberals kept tolerating religious garbage for decades instead of confronting this shit early on. Now here we are.

[-] taanegl@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Boot licking shill licks boot and shills. News at 11.

[-] Raphael@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Don't let the US become an all-out theocracy please, your stupidity affects all of us.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Was this after or before he had serious discussion with Andrew Tate about climate change?

[-] EeeDawg101@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Can someone share the article? It just loads an ad for me.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Archive.is link to article

Mentioning @Bridger@sh.itjust.works too in case you didn't want to scale the paywall earlier.

[-] EeeDawg101@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thank you!

[+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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[-] adroidBalloon@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ignoring them won't make them go away because they'll just up the stakes-- that's exactly what Carleson is doing after he got fired. the only way to beat fascism is with united strength, and there are more of us than there are of them. the problem is that we've become complacent, and too many of us have come to believe we're doing all we can or that our efforts won't be enough-- and that's wrong.

The Alt-Right Playbook: The Cost of Doing Business

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I love innuendo studios. I rewatch them and find new insights. It’s difficult to type what I’m thinking sometimes. I didn’t mean to wholly ignore them. I meant in discussions with other liberals/leftists. There’s too much infighting between centrists, socDems, socialists, Marxist, etc. We all agree Republicans are bad. I get disheartened when I see post after post just hating Republicans. Whose mind is it changing? It’s just hate for feels. I want discussions about what comes after the fascists lose.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

While I mostly agree with you, including about the Dem leadership being what Republicans used to be, there's a crucial aspect you're overlooking:

The already marginalised groups that Republicans seek to eradicate don't have the privilege to be able to just ignore the people who advocate against their rights to peacefully exist. They also can't afford for the rest of us to ignore the stochastic terrorism that further endangers them every day.

[-] Bridger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Paywall.

[+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -64 points 1 year ago

Got it, Republicans are bad. Tucker is evil. Christofascism is rising. Vote Democrat. Nothing fundamentally will change.

https://www.salon.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-to-rich-donors-nothing-would-fundamentally-change-if-hes-elected/

[-] adhdplantdev@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

I mean it'll get worse if you keep voting Republican. I'd rather the status quo than worse. Maybe don't put down enthusiasm of others.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Biden has consistently refused to recognize the metastatic cancer that has eaten the Republican Party from the inside out. He still cherishes the dream of bipartisanship and hearkens back to the good old days of hammering out compromises on the Senate floor. Of course he’s going to downplay the difference between the parties.

That doesn’t mean go vote for fucking cancer.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

You linked an article where you just read the headline. You didn't read the article apparently where if you did you would have seen this:

'Biden said that poverty was “the one thing that can bring this country down” and listed several new programs to help the poor that he would fund if elected.'

So that could change, for the better, the standard of living of the poor negating your headline only argument.

Additionally, the president prior, Trump instituted substantial permanent tax cuts on the rich with temporary tax cuts on the poor and middle class. The temporary tax cuts for poor and middle class expire in 2025. The rich keep their tax cuts after that date. So even with the worst possible reading of that headline, its still preferable to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

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