As most of you know, I am from Palestine, and something I’ve been noticing recently is the coverage that a lot of brainless goofs are getting.

On the internet especially, but people shouldn’t pretend the internet is not part of our lives.

The main three people I am referring to here are Tucker Carlson, Prof Jiang, and John Kiriakou.

The least brainless here is the guy that worked for the CIA.

Who do you think is behind the coverage and visibility they are getting?

My parents have heard about those three and have seen videos.

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    Okay but Tucker is an outright Nazi and you should not be “supportive” of anyone like him triangulating “to the left” of liberals whatever the fuck that means.

    The enemy of our enemy is not by default our friend and I fucking hate that I keep seeing takes like yours pop up here.

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      Is he though

      Tucker Carlson is an obviously horrible person (dude was big Iraq war advocate)

      But I am not aware of him saying Nazi shit

      He’s definitely said a lot of racist shit about black people and immigrants

      Idk about Jews

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        Nazism is not exclusive to hating jews. It was after all first and foremost about cooptng socialist energy and redirecting it away from the German bourgeoisie toward scapegoats that including Jews but also communists, anarchists, LGBT people, slavs, Roma etc etc.

        Also Tucker does dabble in ZOG shit about Israel controlling the US and the person I was arguing with also brought up Marjorie Taylor Greene who openly ranted about “Jewish space lasers” during the California wildfires which is especially fucked.

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            Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that Israelis were responsible for the massive wildfires that destroyed a bunch of my friends and family’s homes were not because of corporations depleting the water table and climate change caused by carbon emissions but actually a Jewish plot to destroy America by starting wildfires with space lasers.

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          You’re the one who turned it into an argument off the jump attacking me.

          I don’t give a fuck if tucker’s a piece of shit, he’s doing more for anti-imperialism than you are attacking people on an online forum. Touch grass.

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            I don’t give a fuck if tucker’s a piece of shit, he’s doing more for anti-imperialism than you are attacking people on an online forum

            Yeah we get you really want us to like this piece of shit. I wonder if he wasn’t such an bigoted flag bearer of capitalism, would you be browbeating us about not liking him?

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              I never said I liked him. I find it pathetic he has a more principled stance against imperialism than every “progressive” voice that’s been platformed in the west. That’s it.

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            Dear lord, this poster attacked you? Like they came through your computer screen and hit you with a big clown mallet? You must be terribly injured, Thoughts and prayers to you comrade.

            Jokes aside, Tucker Carlson is not anti imperialist. He’s not “doing anything for” anti-imperialism. Was Trump anti imperialist when he said “no more wars!” on the campaign trail? No, because he was cynically cultivating an audience and trying to garner mass appeal. And then, wouldn’t you know it, we just so happened to oopsie our way into attacking Iran. Stop being dramatic and acting like you’re grievously injured when someone rightfully calls you out for holding water for fascists.

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      You could say the same for a lot of the “progressives” you follow then. Nobody said I was supportive of him, what I am saying is him and marjorie taylor green aren’t afraid to be labeled as antisemitic for their anti-imperialist views, and it’s something “progressives” fucking suck at.

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        You don’t know me and you definitely don’t know who I follow it just disgusts me to see this sort of “critical support” for this piece of shit that should be one of the first against the wall. This is textbook tailism. Fuck Tucker Carlson and anyone that speaks even cryptically positively of him.

        They aren’t afraid of being labeled as antisemitic because they are proudly so. MTG is a fucking hilarious example to use given her open conspiracism about Jewish space lasers. Like come on do better than that.