• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Y’all act like Russians have figured out hypnosis and seeing anything they say will instantly corrupt a person’s brain. I really don’t get it.

      If he’s not a journalist then what’s the big deal? Tuck is already a propagandist for oil money and he’s been a professional apologist for capital since before his bowtie days. Is it suddenly a crime when he also talks to Russians?

      For clarity’s sake I also don’t care what happens to Tucker Carlson. Throw him in the ocean for all I care, but for a good reason, not just talking to Russian politicians lmao. Tucker Carlson has been a professional white supremacist homophobic asshole for decades, except now that he’s talking to Putin he’s suddenly a problem? That’s ridiculous to me.

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        What about what about what about.

        Yes, Tucker is a media whore for whomever is slipping singles up his ass. The topic was Russia, but sure, I very much agree that capital is as foreign to me as any foreign government.

        No country openly allows foreign propaganda from hostile countries to be broadcast in their country without restrictions, Russia being among the most extreme in this regard. It’s not about fear, it’s about not being idiotic.

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          Capital is as foreign to you as a foreign government? What do you mean by this? Also foreign propaganda is totally allowed. Once again I’ll point you to the Vietnam War, free speech laws meant that totally uncensored footage of the atrocities being committed were broadcast and criticized. The media/military industrial complex tightened the grip extensively in response, but through corporate acquisitions and private soft power not by sanctioning journalists or especially non-journalists. Not being a journalist and being silenced is kind of an even bigger deal.

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      Last I checked America is not at war with Russia and regardless, yes free speech includes Enemy Propaganda. Should people who protested the Vietnam War have been sanctioned?

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        LOL, comparing Tucker Carlson to a Vietnam protester is even more of a stretch than calling him a journalist.

        No, of course we shouldn’t have sanctioned Vietnam war protesters, though I would argue that we actually did. It’s an insult to compare them with a disingenuous cultist giving Putin a bullhorn pointed straight at the most gullible people in American society. People like Tucker were the ones suppressing those protesters.

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          They both spread enemy propaganda. Your opinion of someone has nothing at all to do with it. Either enemy propaganda should be covered as free speech or shouldn’t. You don’t get to pick and choose based on your opinion cause laws don’t work like that for a good fucking reason.

          I don’t even believe in free speech (as in like, as a concept it’s meaningless) but at least I get how laws work.

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            America has plenty of ways to allow free speech without really allowing free speech. The Internet blew up their controls for a while, but they have speech they don’t like pretty well quarantined again.

            In Russia, the state dominates corporations. In America, corporations dominate the state. In either case, it ultimately ends up looking pretty much the same, though I think corruption in Russia has been quite a bit worse. Most of our leaders can still fool themselves into thinking they are virtuous, and that gives the people at least some ability to push back.

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      enemy propaganda

      enemy of whom? afaik Ukraine isn’t the one bringing this, the EU is. on what basis should the EU suppress the speech of Russians if there is not a state of war between them?

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        I was using the framing of the comment I was responding to but, yeah Russia is an enemy to both the US and Europe, with or without a war. The Russian government is nothing but a cartel at this point. Not that the US is a whole lot better in many regards, but at least political assassinations aren’t something we got used to.

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      If spreading propaganda should result in sanctions, do you support corresponding sanctions against Voice of America and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute?

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        It doesn’t matter what I support because I don’t live in the countries that would have a problem with those, but I sure expect that they will block what they can.

        Anyways, we aren’t going to stop Tucker from spreading his verbal diarrhea anyways. Maybe we could just throw him out a window afterwards as a warning to others.

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        Tucker isn’t interviewing the people who live there, he’s interviewing the very concrete embodiment of the abstract concept of the Russian government that is absolutely our enemy. Tucker is himself a concrete representative of our common enemy, capital.

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          Our enemy

          Don’t try to tell me who my enemy is nerd, I know who my enemy is. It’s the people who put these bizzare nationalist ideas in your head. You’re talking like a medieval serf would talk about a rival kingdom, when it’s our own aristocracy that’s menacing the entire world.

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            LOL, it’s not nationalism to acknowledge that countries are a thing, or to acknowledge that there are indeed differences between them. I have no illusions that the US government is my friend, but I do see that I’m better off here than under Putin. There is a reason that a third of Russian males are alcoholics, and it’s not the quality of the vodka.

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              are you in any danger of becoming Russian and owing anything to Putin? No, you’re not. Disentangle the nationalism from your brain. Russia isn’t a threat to you and it’s not your enemy, it’s a threat to your country’s shareholders.

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                So, you acknowledge that Putin is threatening the US. Well, that’s progress of a sort. (I can play your stupid games too.)

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                I wouldn’t know. I couldn’t even tell you the last time this “yank” are fast food.

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                  You know that national representation, how laws and rights work as well as international relations aren’t at all guided by your opinions or lifestyle right? Your lack of fast food consumption has nothing to do at all with the Americans who do or the comparative stereotype your comment that was removed for racism (I know cause I’m.the oen who reported it). Stop being so self involved and blockheaded.