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CNN's townhall features unreliable source

jeudi 18 mai 2023 à 13:47

In his long CNN "town hall", the bullshitter brushed aside inconvenient facts by opening the firehose of lies.

I have a hunch that CNN intended this program to increase its audience among US fascists, and that it succeeded.

There were a few topics on which the bullshitter seemed unwilling to dismiss reality entirely. For instance, he said he would quickly end the war in Ukraine, but refused to state any support for it. This gives us reason to believe he still supports Putin and would "end the war" by stabbing Ukraine in the back. This would end the deaths in combat, but would not end the killing. The Putin forces did plenty of killing in parts of Ukraine that were occupied in the first months of the war, as well as kidnapping and torture. If the war turns into a bigger occupation, they will surely continue.

The line that the bullshitter is following was worked out by many progressives, who now demand to "end the war" at any cost. After years of condemning the US for starting gratuitous wars based on lies, they can't adjust to a situation where for once the US is on the right side.