Chapotraphouse

Anything that divides the empire against itself is good. Long-term new problems may arise but our most pressing problem is the empire.

"Waaah he's a fascist, he hurts my feelings". Yeah no shit he's not a great guy. Doesn't matter.

I don't like how Iran treats women and how it murdered communists but I still understand the role it has to play.

Iran's role is more significant and important than Tucker Carlson. They're not on the same level. But where do you draw the line? Does someone have to militarily attack the US (and only I will remind you in response to being attacked first. Iran are not some bastion of fanatical anti-imperialists who struck first, they reply only when attacked first and are more than willing to negotiate with the vile US empire when it actually seems like it might do so in good faith)? Iran was forced into the position it's in. It wanted rapprochement with the west and integration but the west spurned it. Tucker Carlson was perhaps forced into the position he's in. He lost his Fox News show and the market for zionist puppets and pro-war maniacs is quite bad for new sellers because of all the big media apparatus already being on that. If he wanted to do anything his range of choices was pretty constrained.

I'm not going to cheer for Tucker unlike Iran but I'm not going to do like the idealist liberals here and cheer for say the FBI or CIA harassing him because they don't like what he's saying because mentally you people despite claiming to be leftists are still Democrats at heart happy to score an "own" against that mean reactionary personality instead of dispassionately analyzing what it does.

It shouldn't matter for us any more than it matters that Russia or Iran were forced into doing good things. So long as we don't delude ourselves (I haven't seen that) that he's a true friend through and through (same with Iran and Russia) and understand what is going on we can point out what he's doing is taking the correct position.

You people act as if the absolutely irrelevant online left praising Tucker with reservations will result in him skyrocketing to popularity and personally becoming fascist leader of America thanks to our help in bamboozling the totally innocent left-leaning American public. Ridiculous. Absurd. 1) He doesn't need us. 2) America is already reactionary and violent as shit. Please see Trump. Whether it's Tucker or someone else doesn't matter. The empire is a machine that will continue regardless of figurehead at the helm.

Calm down and analyze what it does. Have no illusions about who our true friends are but have no illusions that change and the new world will be brought about in no small part thanks to people we rightfully consider enemies. Save your breath, there are plenty of liberals, chuds, and zionists seething at Tucker we need spend no time trying to "take him down". Continue pushing our positions and lines, our explanations, our values. But please save your freaking out at Tucker being a bad guy the same way you save your freaking out at Russia whenever it's mentioned because they oppress LGBTQ people. There are times it is appropriate to bring up and times it is inappropriate to do so and knowing the difference is the difference between being a liberal and a member of the left.