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Tommy Robinson comes out in support for Ed Sheeran in career low for singer (www.joe.co.uk)
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[–] 55 points 4 weeks ago* (10 children)

Wanna feel really confused by it? Tucker Carlson is defending Macklemore.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    Yeah. That makes me feel yucky.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    It's really weird, right?

    Like, first off, Fuck Carlson. Years of damage and bullshit.... not forgetting that. He's never gonna be "on my side".... And I know his pivot is entirely a self interest grift.

    But I'm still in favor of it? Like...

    He's not a good person, but he's respected by the far-right. And still manages a large audience of alt-righters. So, if he's criticizing Israel, and Trump, and TPUSA... then... maybe that's good? In the clip he's openly discussing how Fox news (his former employer) is being deliberately manipulative with their wording... that's... good?

    I'd say, "broken clocks" but I don't he's "right" either. I think he has his own purposes that aren't "good", but some good may come of it. If that makes sense.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    He sees the writing on the wall that young rightists are anti-Israel (for all the wrong reasons) and is positioning himself to be the next anti-establishment right-wing voice in a post Trump era. It's pure cynical politics.

    But I guess still better than defending genocide.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 weeks ago

    But I guess still better than defending genocide.

    The bar is in hell.

    I look it as though Tucker is just the first rat off the ship trying reestablish himself as the "true republican". He helped make this monster and now he's doing this "the right have lost their way" bit after it all went tits up.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Tucker Carlson is just desperate for relevance. That's what everything he's done over the past year or so comes down to.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (1 child)

    oh, no doubt. I'm not giving him any credit. This isn't some "oh look, Tucker is moving to a more moderate position and we should all give him grace"... No fuck that, Tucker is a self-interersted dickfuck fuckbag.

    BUT, him back peddling may deradicalize some of his viewers. If they can connect the dots between "wait a minute, tucker says Fox are liars... maybe I've been lied to..." that's a good first step. I know, putting a lot of hopes in "maga connects the dots".... but I want to believe!

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