And it’s totally cool to disagree! (isn’t nostr weird?)

I have close family friends, whom I love and respect, who would agree with your opinion here. And it’s true that he’s willing to broach subjects that many others won’t touch.

My issue is the incentives. I can’t shake the feeling that his motivation is “off”. And he frequently promotes a point of view where the powerful, rich, and deeply-entrenched incumbent is the first entity to profit from people buying Carlson’s arguments. As a bitcoiner, my first instinct is to be skeptical of this.

There’s a school of psychotherapy called NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) where you re-train your psyche and form new internal narratives.

The scary thing is that many politicians and pundits (left and right) employ these techniques in order to promote their party’s view. But the most adept/skillful of anyone is Tucker Carlson. He uses textbook “modern hypnotism” methods and makes it appear like he’s just a curious skeptic.

That shit can’t be good…

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Appreciate you sir, first of all.

American “empire” propaganda is dangerous, damaging, manipulative, scary, and at times, murderous.

I’m not excusing it for a minute.

If US tax dollars had been required to fund the war in Iraq (instead of GWB2’s money printer), there would have been a civilian revolution instead of an endless war overseas.

But I believe American leadership has become entirely detached from American ideals.

For what it’s worth, I don’t believe that most Russian citizens want a conqueror’s war in Ukraine. Most of them probably oppose it. But they live in a country where, if they speak up too loudly, they will “disappear” along with their families.

It’s the leader of THAT country who is being given a platform today. Who is being celebrated by people with the word “freedom” in their bio. Who is publicly and shamelessly proclaiming that he hasn’t murdered enough civilians to be satisfied.

When any other nation’s leader does this, trust that I will condemn it with similar emphasis.

But today, it’s Putin and Carlson who asked for the spotlight, so it’s time they damn well get it.

In many instances I would agree on principle, and I respect wanting to understand what makes the guy tick.

If I believed Carlson was doing this interview for some humanitarian motive, to “shed light” on why a nuclear power has attempted to obliterate its neighbor, I might go in with a different mindset.

But Putin doesn’t need this platform to promote his angle. He’s not saying anything new. And Carlson’s general viewer/listener-base is prone to side with the contrarian viewpoint as a general rule.

In my (skeptically interrogated, bitcoiner-philosophy) opinion, Carlson isn’t acting on deep principles of journalistic integrity.

It seems to me that, as usual, he’s taking advantage of a situation rife with conflict, fear, and uncertainty, to expand his reach and shill his brand

Yeah I was mad. Still am. Also still love the nostriches here and the fact that we can disagree and still 🫂🤙 after