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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (6 children)

What's crazy to me is Putin had such an opportune chance to control the narrative and try to pull the far right to his side. He could have done this by speaking to anti-LGBTQ stuff or talk about traditional families. But instead he spent his time talking about a perverse Russian history that some how blames Poland for Hitler's aggression.

Putin had a chance to control the narrative, but instead ranted on like a crazy old man. So win for the west, but what a strange story.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I don't think it matters what he spews. One-in-four Americans already have a positive view of Putin. I think he's got the crazy demographic already locked down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please tell me that’s not actually true

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could lie to you. To give you sweet, comforting fictions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To what has the world has come to…

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Because he knows it doesn’t matter, he’s taking a figurative verbal shit on fucker carlson and it’s a flex on his part. He knows it’s bullshit, he knows that we (non qult idiots) know that it’s bullshit and it’s him basically going “look at these imbeciles swallowing the shit I feed and what are they going to do about it?”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But instead he spent his time talking about a perverse Russian history that some how blames Poland for Hitler’s aggression.

This was a message towards German fascists; he's dangling the Königsberg-carrot (and other former German territories in the east) in front of them. He'd really like Germany to be on his side.

It becomes more clear what Russian strategy is when you consider Medvedev's interview where he speaks about Lviv and he mentions how Poland could support an Ukrainian remnant with Lviv as its capitol. Complete and utter bullshit, the message is simply "Poland and Lviv".

And I'm betting that Putin promised Orban he gets the south-western parts of Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Well Orban seems 100% on Putin's side regardless. I guess I don't know enough about Germany to know if that's something their far right wants, but wouldn't surprise me. And I suppose that all makes more sense since the far right in USA is clearly on his side already.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

The interview was several hours, very few people actually watched it. The only thing that matters is that "Putin was open to being interviewed" even though that perspective is missing the important details like how Putin has avoided interviews from anyone else for the past few years because anyone but Tucker Carlson is going to ask hard questions and confront him with unpleasant facts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Putin cares infinitely more about Russian domestic opinion than American public opinion. He had a few good moments in there where he belittles Tucker that are going to be clipped and shared all over Russian media.

He started this off very quickly with calling Tucker a talk show host causing Tucker to laugh awkwardly amd nervously. Speaking of that, I was surprised at Tucker's nervousness. I guess he felt the whole world was watching him or something and he choked a bit.

Not as easy to seem like you're centered and wise when you're not reading a script on your own TV show.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Speaking of that, I was surprised at Tucker’s nervousness.

The interview wasn't on the ground floor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

He doesn't need to pander. The far right will ally with anyone they think will give them a leg up over their real or perceived opponents.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago

Gondor has historically always been part of Mordor, we just gave it to them for a little while because we were bored.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I actually watch the whole damn thing. For me, Putin went from highly intelligent evil dictator to highly stupid evil dictator. I hope I get the chance to spit on his grave one day.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't it crazy that the more you learn about world leaders, the more it becomes evident that they're a bunch of morons just like everyone else?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Worse. Normal people have the decency of self consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Of only this was true in the general way you wrote it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Worse. Normal people have the occasional decency of self consciousness.

Fixed it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For everyone else tripping slightly over this command.

Normal == Perfect Being different/ having a disability is not abnormal.

I am neurodivergent, this may often make people exclude me from the “normal/neurotypical” group. But the term is misused here

But in the broader sense, the way the term is used above is not excluding in the same way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Damn I was gonna say I appreciate your comment because you used the double equal sign operator to mean equality " == " and I thought it was cool to see that in a non-programming context.

But you actually did " = \ = " and Lemmy markdown interpreter thought you were trying to escape something because of the backwards slash.

Anyhow, to address your comment...

Yes, normal !== perfect but nobody was claiming otherwise. Neurodivergent also !== special

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Putin was pretty damn smart. But, I'm sure old age and decades of yes-men have caught up to him.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Sounds like a pretty cool premise for a book tbh.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just saw a bit of this interview on The Daily Show... and man was it hilarious

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

And then Putin went on another show and said he was disappointed by how soft the questions were from Carlson, LOL

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This history lesson will only take one minute #trustmebro.

30 minutes later

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

30 minutes? More like 30 days

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

And that is why it's justified that Gonder forced us to invade them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only a month? There are people here who can talk about it till the inevitable end of the universe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

until the Dagor Dagorath? Why, of course, that final battle of good and evil in an important piece to understand...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Soon to be adapted into a trilogy of major motion pictures, directed by Peter Jackson.

*edit: revised wording.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The trilogy isn't set in the first age.

If someone goes from Aunulindale and the Silmarillion to the third age in 30 minutes, they skipped waaaay too much. Probably skipped over the War of Wrath, or at least one of the drownings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I was just referring to the interview itself.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The Last Ringbearer (annas-archive) by the paleontologist Kirill Eskov.

Eskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a "history written by the victors".[2][3] Mordor is home to an "amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic", posing a threat to the war-mongering faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude is described by Saruman as "crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem") and the Elves.[2]

Macy Halford, in The New Yorker, writes that The Last Ringbearer retells The Lord of the Rings "from the perspective of the bad guys, written by a Russian paleontologist in the late nineties and wildly popular in Russia".[4] The book was written in the context of other Russian reinterpretations of Tolkien's works, such as Natalia Vasilyeva and Natalia Nekrasova's The Black Book of Arda [ru], which treats Melkor as good and the Valar and Eru Ilúvatar as tyrannical rulers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This comes up every time when lotr discussion goes deep and I love it every time. Good reads and fun perspective exercise. The books that is. Not puddin'.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...so you see the King of Gondor is and always has been an Occupier, who hasn't paid rent to the rightful owner in many centuries

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This is excellent and entirely spot on. Putin is a Maiar, not a Valar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

At least sauron wasn't lying like putin.

UKRAINE WAS IN CHARGE OF ALL RUSSIA BEFORE. MONGOLIA ALSO. RUSSSSSSSSSS NAME COMES FROM UKRAINE AREA