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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[–] dead@hexbear.net 22 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Tucker is not a strong anti-imperialist, he only says such things because he knows that it will make him popular. Tucker Carlson's dad, Dick Carlson, was the president of Voice of America from 1986 to 1991, which is US-government-owned propaganda news station ie CIA. Tucker Carlson is a fed or tied to feds.

When Kanye West came out as a Nazi, he went on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show to make the announcement. Tucker Carlson selectively edited the interview to launder Kanye's image, so that it would appear that Kanye was a more reasonable populist right wing figure. Clips of the interview were leaked by editors. Kanye claimed that Tucker censored him and then he went on Alex Jones to say even more antisemitic things. This interaction demonstrates that Tucker was comfortable with promoting a figure who claimed to be a Nazi.

The role of Tucker Carlson is to say things that are popular to promote far-right figures and far-right ideas.

Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show focused on 'the great replacement' conspiracy theory. Tucker used the term 'legacy americans' to describe white people and regularly implied that a shadowy group was using mass migration to eliminate 'legacy americans' ie white people. Before Tucker got fired from Fox News, Tucker's show was the most watched news program in the US, averaging 5 million nightly views.

The danger of Tucker Carlson is not that he's actually anti-imperialist. The danger is that he's popular and his popularity will allow him to promote his white supremacy narratives.

Only a fool would honestly believe that Tucker is actually an anti-imperialist. Just go watch one episode of his twitter show. Every episode he says things like "trans people are trying to stop you from having free healthcare". He is absurd.

[–] hyperpoopsucks@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah lmao he is incredibly opportunist and just sees an opening. We are talking about the guy who wore a bow tie on TV to spread hype for war on Iraq lmao.