This is why I get very angry with TC, to follow up on yesterday’s inspiration:
At this point, if you still deny Tucker Carlson is a Russian asset, you're either a liar, or a moron...or, quite possibly, both.
Aleksandr Dugin, aka “Putin’s brain”, is an anti-American bigot who wrote a book titled: “The American Empire should be destroyed” and was behind the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine.
Tucker Carlson is a Russian asset.
It’s all the more infuriating because I once thought a lot better of him. And now he shills nonstop for the murderous tyrants. I find it difficult not to wish him a lot of ill, if I’m honest. Lots and lots of it.
One more note on Dugin:
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Pointers from Garry Kasparov’s Twitter feed.
I have tended to think if somebody is quoted as saying something too wacky to be true then the quote must be wrong or taken out of context. I ask, "What am I missing? Surely patient, thorough conversation can sort this out!" Being wrong makes one vulnerable and, surely, no one wants to be vulnerable.
But: is there something in the nature of our prosperity that dulls worry over vulnerability and the need for logic, stripping it of its disciplinary power? Stripping us of any desire to accept or even recognize discipline?
The pursuit of logic requires courage. When once courageous logic morphs into common sense, are some people so revolted by the commonness of common sense - "How can my brilliance and intellect stand out when common sense is so widespread?!" - that they arrogantly determine to prove their superiority by dredging fragments of wisdom-like material from sources "common people" have utterly rejected?
Lucifer may or may not be real, but the road to human destruction he personifies surely is.
Abigail Shrier in conversation with Nick Gillespie, “The Libertarian Fonz”, about her book.
https://youtu.be/JwfIKOrWXCk?si=vHMcEF3n6HuIAa4N
Somewhere in the 42-minute section they discuss how the NYT “Bestsellers” lists now routinely ignore the ideological undesirables—even if the books are actual bestsellers. I saw a similar recent mention of this from Rob Henderson: His recent bestseller is blotted out from Times’s readers’ view.
This seems to me to mean that between today’s post about infuriating behavior by infuriating attention hogs *and* audience capture demanding news items on certain topics be rendered invisible, the media landscape continues to evolve in strange ways.
The social media herd instincts seem to matter more and more each passing day.