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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Lussy@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Follow up from

https://hexbear.net/post/8052362

‘He’s obv. a piece of shit but…’

Oh really? If he’s such a strong anti-imperialist how is he a piece of shit? Maybe explain that instead of just hand waving literally every concern your comrades reply with and calling them libs.

Some of you read the front cover of ‘Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism’ and decided that there’s no material basis for the idea?

No, seriously, let’s have a struggle sesh about this, defend the fash in front of the entire community. If his faux anti-imperialism is good enough for you to throw others under the bus, explain why the rest of us deserve to die

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[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Joe Kent Michael Flynn, Jackson Hinkle, etc, these people are all obviously taking money from other countries outside the USA to talk nonsense. It's not organic, they often contradict previously held beliefs or give out information that they themselves know is false to deliberately mislead. Michael Flynn does this a lot. A man of his military experience knows that what he's saying is false. Like when he said the NEW START treaty banned hardened aircraft shelters for nuclear capable strategic bombers (it didn't, and he knew that, but he said it anyways to feed a narrative, because he's probably getting paid to do so). Kent went on a tour of the podcast bro scene right after resigning, the opposite of organic. Who's funding them is the bigger question.

If people want to do a red brown alliance with these hacks whom are only loyal to their bank account, that's highly questionable. They're not outflanking anyone, they're just getting paid to say stupid things they themselves know are false, and put out low effort slop. Even more questionable is the rumblings I've heard of some kind of red-brown-green alliance? Yeah that's not going to work and should not be supported.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

An odd claim. Why does the US allow this?

The country with near total insight to global money flows. Hundreds of people working on sanctions. Whole redundant investigative divisions dedicated to sanctions enforcement and tracing money. And with all this they can't figure out these people are being paid off by Russia, China, Iran, whoever the unfriendly actor is who wants to sew discord against the US?

They can tunnel down and figure out how complex, intelligent, staffed criminal organizations and countries are shifting money about and you're telling me a few small time right-wing grifters have outsmarted them?

This is kind of a curious thing. I want to say ridiculous but it seems the US must be complicit in this and looking the other way. If they wanted to nail these people they could but they're not even trying. I mean they've sent the FBI to raid the houses of minor RT writers in the past trying to prove they were being paid to say these things. At least with RT writers you could say oh they know what their employer wants without anyone saying anything. But these people are not as far as I'm aware on the payroll even in a contributor per piece freelance way for any major media outlets from enemy powers.

This sounds like so much Russia-gate nonsense to me to be honest. The type of lie the CIA pushes to discredit anyone domestic against them.

I think its more likely since you offer zero proof, that they simply saw a niche and went for it. The mainstream has being pro-zionist and drooling over war covered quite well. There's not much air to breathe in there for small fries like these. So I find it far more plausible they just found an empty space.

This sounds like so much Russia-gate nonsense to me to be honest. The type of lie the CIA pushes to discredit anyone domestic against them.

I agree (russiagate is nonsense)

but the thing is about Tucker is that he has views that mirror Russia on a lot of things

The "I don't hate Islam but immigrants in Europe bad" shtick notably

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

There are not that many flavors of reactionary. What Russia tries to use for soft power influence peddling itself as a "trad" defender of traditional values, the family, against the gays, etc is a strain of thought that originated in the west more than Russia which was we must recall the USSR from 1917 to 1990.

These are simply the suppressed nativist conservatives who were shoved out of the way in favor of neo-cons and their agenda in the 90s and 2000s. And they're trying to reassert themselves against very powerfully funded imperialists whose thinking has made weapons companies a lot of money and whose thinking has captivated the higher echelons of the intelligence and state apparatus. They at least on the surface care more about too many brown people in the US than someone not bowing to the US 22,000 miles away. These people are true believers in the culture war or at least using the appearance of that to attempt to gain power.

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