The Tuck dog is great. An American treasure. However, this interview is evidence of him wanting to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian. Audience capture. His audience expects him to question every narrative so………. “Maybe we were the bad guys in WW2?”.
Tucker Carlson is not part of the IDW. He couldn’t sniff their jocks - although Sam Harris has rampant TDS and Bret Weinstein has lost his focus too.One of the marks of the Intellectual Dark Web and the Alt-Right, in general, is an addiction to contrarianism. The idea is that if most people (aka “sheeple”) think “X,” then, chances are, “Y” is secretly right. We got a great example of this on Monday as Tucker Carlson proudly dedicated two hours of his program to a “historian” who believes that the real villain of World War II was Churchill.
I see "sheepie" being used constantly by cult members in comment sections of any yt video critical of Trump. Now that you lay it all out as a Dark web phenomenon it all makes sense. I swear every time I start to read thru those type of posts I hear the theme from Twilight Zone in the background...One of the marks of the Intellectual Dark Web and the Alt-Right, in general, is an addiction to contrarianism. The idea is that if most people (aka “sheeple”) think “X,” then, chances are, “Y” is secretly right. We got a great example of this on Monday as Tucker Carlson proudly dedicated two hours of his program to a “historian” who believes that the real villain of World War II was Churchill.
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Wow! It’s disgusting and shameful that Carlson takes this guy seriously. When did Carlson lose his mind? He wasn’t always a nut.
I think it is the contrarianism mentioned above mixef with a need to drive clicks. To put in the context of sports on this sports website, he did the Indiana Sports Journalist equivalent of dropping an "Indiana is the 4th best basketball program in the state" article in a slow news week. How many hate clicks and rubber neckers did Carlson pull in with that interview? Absurdity and poking known large online groups drives clicks and clicks drive income.
It was a shit take. There is a certain point that is reached in being "open minded" where your brain has basically fallen out of your head. Making the allies the bad guys in WW2 and thinking that is some great outside the box thinking is that point.
Listen. I am about as right wing as they come. The fact that so many people on our side of the aisle are jumping into this nonsense isn't a good thing. The Allied powers (namely England/Chamberlain) bent over backwards for Hitler. Yeah, there didn't need to be a war as long as France and England were willing to keep sacrificing countries to Hitler....until the point where there was a need for a war because of his insatiable appetite for conquest.
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We'll see how it goes. I think this is more of the online right than it is the rank and file. Most people just aren't as in tune with this stuff.The mentally ill and morally bankrupt were let into the tent 8 years ago. They've setup a permanent home now. Good luck ever fumigating the place to get rid of them now. You better get used to it... This is the new American right that isn't leaving.
We Need to Talk about Tucker, Again | National Review
Republican voters are not in a good place if Tucker Carlson is their guide.
I know Germans who profess to loathe Hitler, but draw a moral equivalency with the Holocaust and our treatment of Indians.
Your last point is VDH's point in the article I linked. Our culpability was in not being forceful enough and that certainly didn't fall on Churchill.
with every tweet i see from you i brace for four years of squad politics.
Well, you know, VDH and I are pretty much on the same intellectual level.......
I won't lie I did not. I assumed he was arguing that while Hitler was by far the worst person ever and is burning in hell right now much of the death and destruction of WWII could have been prevented had they simply appeased him a bit.
The WW2 parts, yes.
I liked the 'we can't really talk about this yet, because it's too soon' types of statements.
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Oh, I know all that is out there - I've heard it posited before that we caused it.That's out there. It is a combination of our very effective embargo and that we knew they were coming but needed the Pacific Fleet destroyed so we could declare war on Germany.
And yes, the embargo was damn effective, maybe the most effective of any embargo. Japan was desperate for oil. All that is true. We never had a clue they were coming. The Japanese changed their code just before leaving, they also changed their call signs. The radio operators of a couple of ships were transferred to island stations and sent fake signals, knowing that we could tell it was the usual Akagi radio operator sending it. It was all very elaborate, and we had very little chance to break it in a month.
Blinded by the Rising Sun: Japanese Radio Deception Before Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor achieved as nearly complete a surprise on an opponent as any in military history. Ever since the first bombs fell
And we were mired in old thinking, Billy Mitchell wasn't yet a hero. We firmly refused to believe that carriers were the new ultimate naval weapon.
Oh, and we only declared war on Germany after Germany declared war on us. America wasn't wanting revenge on Hitler, I'm not sure we would have declared on Germany without the German gambit.
Oh, that's right - it certainly wasn't over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!
