Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Easo]

Sure. Right after Ulmita stops trying to spin "the baltic states block specific Russian propaganda sources" into "western Democracy has banned all Russian media."

Fair enough. There is large gap between UK and Baltics, as something I have checked myself. Of course I have seen questions asking how the f... do journalists know what exactly Russian media says if it's blocked but oh well.
P.S.
Blocks are ridiculously easily circumventable. Not even VPN is needed depending on your ISP.

[Jessicka]

Fair enough. There is large gap between UK and Baltics, as something I have checked myself. Of course I have seen questions asking how the f... do journalists know what exactly Russian media says if it's blocked but oh well.
P.S.
Blocks are ridiculously easily circumventable. Not even VPN is needed depending on your ISP.

They’re largely pointless as well, since there’s so many Russian bots out there making sure the “views” get through.

[Gabriel]

Time to physically cut Russia off from the internet. Thankfully they might be doing it themselves.

[Corvus]

They've banned vpns for starters.

And the latest candidate to run against pootie just got banned. Funny how every other candidate ends up dead, arrested or banned. Pootie must be scared of an actual vote despite the election being rigged.

[postman1782]

It's about time to listen a bit to the other side too right? Elon tweeted this out, because the video with the most views in the history of twitter is about to land. Everyone and their grandmothers have been waiting for this interview.

No it isn't. They claimed that the Trump interview was going to have the most views ever, and the only reason it did, was because it was forced on everyone's feed. If you scrolled past it, it counted as a view. Trump claimed it had 230 million views in less than 24 hours. But the real total views was only 14.8 million views.

https://mashable.com/article/tucker-...lion%20viewers.)

I can guarantee it won't show be viewed even close to what you want it to. Because we know you are a Russian, you have admitted to it before.

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I'm sure if they track every autoplay as users scroll by as a "view" and force it into a bunch of users feeds regardless of if they've followed anyone sharing or interested it or not, they can absolutely artificially make that happen.

I mean, that's how they made his initial videos have such high view counts. And Facebook long used that as a tactic to demand a higher cost for video ads by dishonestly adding every autoplay from a user scrolling by as an actual view of the ad.

I posted it in a reply on how they do it to Ulmita.

https://mashable.com/article/tucker-...lion%20viewers.)

That shows how they calculate views on Xhitter.

[Gabriel]

They've banned vpns for starters.

And the latest candidate to run against pootie just got banned. Funny how every other candidate ends up dead, arrested or banned. Pootie must be scared of an actual vote despite the election being rigged.

He's probably worried that his goons will fuck up the job of rigging the election.

[Flarelaine]

He's probably worried that his goons will fuck up the job of rigging the election.

Rigging an election requires complicity from a great number a people and involves too many moving parts, as it were. Brainwashing and suppression are a lot simpler.

Speaking from experience, in a way - in the last election, Hungarian opposition organised a great drive to delegate vote counters to every last little village to show how votes were being stolen. It turned out they weren't. People wanted to vote for Orbán, even if they had to be shown which name on the ballot is his candidate's.

[Gorsameth]

Its infinitely easier to just not have opposition rather then having to fake the result.
And if you fake it you have large groups of people who voted for the candidate that you decided would lose who then get angry that they lost and that the election was stolen. Again easier to just not give them a candidate to vote for, they will be a lot less angry when they don't vote because the only option was someone they don't wan to vote for.

You see this in other countries where there is a lot of civil unrest after unreliable elections and people go out to protest or riot. You avoid all that by not giving them a candidate to vote for.

[Iphie]

Rigging an election requires complicity from a great number a people and involves too many moving parts, as it were. Brainwashing and suppression are a lot simpler.

That's, more or less, what I said before, with vote rigging other forces could work against him and make him lose the vote, without an opponent running against him he doesn't have to worry about his underlings moving against him in a "legal" manner. (look we all know he won't go easily if he lost the vote, but it would look better internationally if he lost the vote than if a coup came along. Even if we pretend that we're happy either way.)

[Easo]

They've banned vpns for starters.

Russia has not banned VPN's...

[Elegiac]

Russia has not banned VPN's...

Yeah the ban doesn’t come into effect until march, technically speaking.

[Benggaul]

Yeah the ban doesn’t come into effect until march, technically speaking.

But, but then how will we know how much a hamburger costs in Moskow as an indicator of economic health?

[Elegiac]

But, but then how will we know how much a hamburger costs in Moskow as an indicator of economic health?

Don't worry they haven't banned VPNs right now, they just have multiple state agencies and officials in an autocracy with a vested interest in controlling the flow of information talking about banning VPNs with a specific deadline in mind. There's really no functional fucking difference but the important thing is being the best kind of correct: technically correct.

I am going to eat my own fingers at this rate.

[Easo]

Well, welcome the new old new ZSU commander.

Yeah the ban doesn’t come into effect until march, technically speaking.

Yeah, yeah, they are totally gonna ban VPN's, pinky swear.

[Ihavewaffles]

Exclusive: Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin

Tucker Carlson
Feb 9, 2024



Watch Tucker's immediate reaction to the interview here: https://bit.ly/3SxeZBY

Tucker interviews Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. February 6th, 2024.

[Edge-]

Ouch, Tucker doesn't even have a million YT subs? And he's on woke YT instead of Rumble?

No thanks bro, no interest in fucking with my YT algorithm or contributing a click/view towards that trash. I've already gotten enough entertainment out of Russia fairly explicitly calling Tucker a useful idiot earlier this week.

Edit: https://www.politico.eu/article/tuck...terview-bingo/

If anyone does watch and wants some fun, Politico's EU branch has a bingo card for it. Because nobody with any brains is treating this like anything other than Russia using a useful idiot. Even if he does ask a question about an American journalist jailed in Russia for being a "spy", and gets the predictably bullshit, dishonest answer everyone expects from Vlady.

[DarkTZeratul]

I have less than zero desire to watch Russian propaganda.

[Saradain]

Tucker Carlson regurgitates propaganda in his special visit to Moscow where surely everything has been set up for his gullibility to tell a story or two. I'll pass

[Elegiac]

Look I’m sure the Dipshit Show is entertaining and all but can we not post blatant Russian state propaganda on main?

[Nilinor]

Ouch, Tucker doesn't even have a million YT subs? And he's on woke YT instead of Rumble?

No thanks bro, no interest in fucking with my YT algorithm or contributing a click/view towards that trash. I've already gotten enough entertainment out of Russia fairly explicitly calling Tucker a useful idiot earlier this week.

Edit: https://www.politico.eu/article/tuck...terview-bingo/

If anyone does watch and wants some fun, Politico's EU branch has a bingo card for it. Because nobody with any brains is treating this like anything other than Russia using a useful idiot. Even if he does ask a question about an American journalist jailed in Russia for being a "spy", and gets the predictably bullshit, dishonest answer everyone expects from Vlady.

I went to the video to mostly look at the comment section.

Its nearly all literally the same comment - the only difference is the country they are from

"Great interview! Greetings from -insert country-" its like they aren't even trying =/