The Russian leader was given the opportunity to expound familiar grievances unchallenged.

  • @SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
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    Russian propaganda molded a big part of a nation and some of its media into a submissive lab dog. Amazing that it became the Republican Party cozening up to Russia and making this 180° turn of it previous stance without losing the empty mind of their followers, as Russia transformed themself closer to the republican extreme it is today creating a match made in hell. Brother in heart, cruel, authoritarian, corrupt, brass, lying, projecting, and slaying anyone who falls out of line. And in the End of all the politics Bowtie-Tucky sits on Putins lab, panting, drooling, like the spineless overbred dog he is.

    Carlson is a millionaire funded by billionaires (Rutger Bregman).

    • Sonori
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      I don’t see the contradiction, Russia went from the center of a nominally socialist union to a hypercapitalist libertarian dictatorship, of course the Republicans are going to try and support it.

  • bedroomsOP
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    Putin wrote a long essay before the war that denied Ukraine’s existence as a sovereign state. He now appears to have learned it by heart.

    I mean, that’s the job of a body double. He’s right there in the picture.

  • ArugulaZ
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    The biggest challenge of the interview was the translator trying to understand what Tucker Carlson was saying with his mouth full.

  • @ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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    101 year ago

    To be clear here, I actively hate what Tucker does. He’s a symptom of a great sickness to society that causes more harm then anything else.

    The only part of this that is Carlsons fault is that he took the interview and went to Russia. There’s no other way this would have played out when a reporter does an interview of Putin. Carlson was likely in that room with nothing but Russian agents who let him know exactly what was going to happen before the interview.

    Anything else could have easily resulted in Carlson never coming home.

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      Anything else could have easily resulted in Carlson never coming home.

      Nah. Anything else would have resulted in him going home sans interview tape. Putin is not dumb enough to start another Khasoggi style incident.

      Carlson’s a total sycophant yeah but he wouldn’t be murdered. Putin just doesn’t have anything to gain by that.

    • @orbitz@lemmy.ca
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      Maybe they got kompromat on Tucker so there was never any worry? Or he’s just a useful tool for them, any definition of tool will do in this case.

      • @ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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        The reason he took the interview doesn’t matter, that decision is his fault. Even if kompromat, he did something he wants to hide in that case.

        But the moment the interview was announced, we should have been expecting this exact thing.

  • The fact that we’re talking about this means that, as a publicity stunt, it worked. Tucker got a massive amount of media attention for this.

    And in the social media algorithm, there’s no such thing as bad publicity; all that matters is engagement.

    Personally I won’t be watching. Not even for the memes. If enough people ignored pundits like Tucker Carlson, they’d go away.