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I don’t think anyone should Trust the underlying motivations of anything Carlson ever says, but this wasn’t too bad, and will resonate with the working class’ lived experience, so, may Eakle’s rebuttal fall on deaf ears.
This is how you can tell he is a fascist, when right wingers coopt leftist language you need to start lifting weights
yeah, the trick they always pull is reducing practical criticisms to pure aesthetics. human misery can only be understood through the perpetuation of ugliness. if the misery at hand is beautiful, then it's acceptable to them.
I listened to it and got bamboozled when they started making the entire spiel about ugly dollar store buildings. Like a classic case of "YOU WERE ALMOST THERE THEN YOU VEERED INTO THE FUCKING DITCH" with a healthy dash of "JESSE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT"
And then giggled at tucker saying "I don't know what you'd call me because I'm criticizing capitalism in America, a socialist" or something along those lines. Partially because I would never put tucker and socialist in the same sentence nor did I ever thing I'd ever hear someone do that much less Mr. Swanson chicken nuggies himself.
Also giggling at the horrific thought that Mr. Fucker might be trying to triangulate himself into making Maga communism a mainstream thing among his herd of hogs. My brain is painfully tingling in trying to parse through that sentence like a hamster on a wheel spinning so fast it trips up and goes spinning with the wheel and gets yeeted out of it
If anything Tucker’s position is a Red Toryism variant. Hierarchical society with white Christian patriarchy at the top, but that patriarchy controls the market as to ensure the traditional family unit is protected.
There's red toryism? That sounds like a real pain the the old brainpan
I've always considered it "Grandpa's conservatism", very old school in a way not really seen in the modern conservative movement.
My grandpa was a fox news grandpa so
Yeah, it's a very White Canadian kind of thing. Classic polite fascism kind of stuff. My grandpa used to try and get into fights with these kinds of people.
Your grandpa is automatically cool as fuck
Oh he was cool. Native ww2 vet, fought on the western front. Had a file opened on him because he was involved with unions and had connections to communist orgs. Brawled with fascists on a regular basis after the war. Worked for the railroad. Used to sing IWW tunes round the campfire. Would slip me five bucks whenever i was around so i can get a snack at the corner store. Had a soviet penpal for over 40 years, and visited him twice during the 90s with my grandma. I still have his uniform, his photos, and his letters. The guy was an amateur photographer, and liked to practice calligraphy and film.
Yeah no it’s an actual thing, although the red part is more metaphorical/relative. It’s sort of analogous to social democrats, the oppressive edge of aristocracy can be blunted with a robust welfare state.
Fuggin
Tucker Carlson is absolute cynical swine who believes in nothing other than making money and having an audience. He's doing the same thing that always happens to ousted conservative pundits/politicians, he's trying to triangulate on something that would make him an outsider but still resonate with hogs. And since he'll never be allowed back into the FoxNews fourth estate club, this is the only option he has. He can't keep being the same old Tucker, there are a million of those. He's gotta position himself as somehow different than those standard TV media people.
i think sometimes people here forget how big Tucker was. He was getting 4 million people watching him per night, and then tens of million more would watch clips of his on Facebook or whatever. He's not getting those sorts of numbers back unless he starts getting wacky with it
one of the replies is the Mises Institute arguing that poverty is caused by not having gold backed currency I am going to bite my own face off
Those dinosaurs still don’t get that it’s crypto that will set us free.
Tucker has a sense of the zeitgeist as far as it keeps him relevant I guess.