Jon Stewart unironically tells Tucker Carlson that the reason why the US can’t have clean functioning subways or cheap grocery prices like they do in Moscow is “the literal price of freedom”
Jon Stewart unironically tells Tucker Carlson that the reason why the US can’t have clean functioning subways or cheap grocery prices like they do in Moscow is “the literal price of freedom”
Yeah I was so confused when I first heard this. And then I thought about it and it's like, this whole statement is shoddily built on anti-Russia vibes.
Paraphrasing "The civilizational (???) battle was between capitalism and communism after WWII. Russia was the enemy." A revisionist statement considering the US sent forces right after WWI in an attempt to put down the Bolsheviks.
Then it bleeds into some bizarre statement that Tucker and other right wingers think that the systems in athe US and Russia are the same... it's because they are! Both are capitalist states. Liberals love to divorce from reality and act like an authoritarian country can't be a capitalist country. I guess it's another demonstration why the term is just a neoliberal invention to make it seem like the baddies are really different from the good ol' US of A.