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Tucker Carlson has a documented history of downplaying Russian aggression, echoing Kremlin talking points, and securing a high-profile interview with Vladimir Putin.
Key Milestones
Everyone reading this should remember the account names promoting this candidate as they are likely Russian bots
If you read the comment as promoting Tucker Carlson, you lack the ability to read. Choosing to not understand your opponent leaves you vulnerable to them. You represent a vulnerability to our collective ability to stop fascism.
This logic is how Trump (the previous Kremlin choice) was elected.
I agree. By refusing to, and failing to understand Trump, and why what Trump was doing was working (or to even acknowledge it was working), Liberals, and Democrats more broadly, set us up for this era of fascism we're in. Its the fault of those who refused to understand their opponents that these easily beatable buffoons have become pillars of the modern political landscape.
Trump won because of election interference from Russia.
Key Evidence and Methods of Russian election interference:
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AI sloppo.
And also "Democrats can never be failures, they can only be failed".
Beep boop… Authentication successful! Russian bot verified: TropicalDingDong
Seriously though… calling evidence of Russia’s election interference AI slop… Russian bots don’t get any more obvious than this.
Yes yes yes. Every one who doesn't agree with with you is a Russian op.
We shouldn't try to understand our opponents or why their messages seem to resonate with audiences. No, we instead require "Trump bad" as the first test to ensure loyalty to the brand, then ensure the counter party is pure enough in their support for Israel and blue no matter who.
Surely simply demanding loyalty to a brand which has been objectively disloyal to its voters won't, yet again blow up in Democrats faces.
Nope just those that promote talking points from Russian propaganda assets like Tucker Carlson
Treating Russian propaganda as anything but Russian propaganda is not going to help you understand anything except what the Kremlin wants you to think.
You’re referring to the loses that occurred after verified Russian election interference. But you call that evidence AI slop and instead try to blame the party that Russia worked so hard to prevent from winning elections.
Obvious Russian bot
I mean do you think you are actually convincing any one with these absurd accusations (other than maybe yourself, by shrinking and shrinking the circular nature of your own thinking).
You basically have a toddler level analysis of 2016, and are accusing anyone who has a mature thought as being an "obvious russian bot". That only works on people who also are decrepit, toddler level thinkers.
So if you've gotten down this far into this thread, dear reader, I ask you to consider who you think @UsernameHere@lemmy.world 's rhetoric to operate on. Like, who is it that we think this user is trying to convince with their words? Its obviously not us. And if they aren't arguing to convince us, who is it they are trying to operate on?
One could say that they are looking to split off "liberals" from the rest of the left with this kind of rhetoric. In this sense, they act as a "wrecker" to any kind of populist, leftist movement. Scratch a "russian bad" liberal, and how deep will we have to go to find a zionist apologist, a blue MAGA't, someone promoting the least viable, most reprehensible instincts of the Democratic party?
It does beg the question doesn't it?
Also consider the fact that if this post were being brigaded by bots that you would see anyone suspicious of the bot’s talking point to have some counter argument being made against them trying to steer the narrative.
These comments that are reasonably skepitcal of Tucker Carlson would be downvoted by the brigaders and the bot’s talking point would be boosted to the top by the bots because it is easy to outnumber real users with bots.
If the bot’s narrative isn’t a genuine opinion held by the readers you would see multiple real users getting downvoted just like you do throughout this thread.
Seems like you’re implying that Lemvotes somehow disproves the existence of bots and brigading lmao
I'm implying that you are a toddler brained Liberal who's analysis is narrowly focused in a kind of maladaptive reactionary analysis that can't seem to get further than "Trump bad. Trump Russia. Peepee tape."
There are entire communities of tankies here on lemmy that will ban you for saying Russia invaded Ukraine. But you’re pretending it’s crazy to think their propaganda would end up in a post like this. I wonder why…
Tucker Carlson gave Putin a platform and then parroted Kremlin talking points and you’re acting like it is crazy to consider what he says as a red flag. I wonder why…
I never said anything that isn’t also being said by all the real users in this post that are being brigaded by the bots that pushed your comment to the top of the post.
This is an honestly insane take and your bullet pointy bolded formatting and word choice makes me wonder a few things.
Insane how? Tucker is a Russian asset. He gave Putin a platform and parroted Kremlin talking points.
He has always been a support of other Russian assets like Trump.
It is insane to pretend he isn’t a Russian asset