What do the fascists get out of saying the truth? Shouldn’t they be cheering on the war machine? My conservative family is sharing this vid around and I’m very confused on what to do. Why can’t it be socialists and communists who get millions of views by talking like this?
Someone stole the noodles out of your soup.
Anti-war is supposed to be the left's bread and butter. But the left has completely fallen down on this, just like the working class issue. The right found the issue lying around on the ground and picked it up. Now they're the principled moral ones who are saying to stop the killing and singing "War! Huh! What is it good for! Absolutely nothin'! Say it, Say it, Say it, Say it!" This never should have been allowed to happen. But it has.
Really says it all about the current western "left"
There is no principle with reactionaries, only appearances. This is entirely about aesthetics to them. They like Putin for being an orthodox queerhunter, not for being a stopgap to Amerikan expansionism. They like Xi for having balls of steel, not for putting the capitalist class in its place and offering an alternative to western allegiance to the global south.
Consequently, the right's occupation of anti-war protests will never lead to a policy change within the Republican party, in spite of the GOP paying much more attention to the vibes that resonate with their electorate than the Dems do. They know from the Trump years that they can stick to the entirely gestural and performative, simple and meaningless things like their guys saying something nice about Putin. It will be enough to make the libs scream Russiagate all over again, which will be enough to give the hogs the nice, fuzzy glow of having triggered the libs, and nothing will fundamentally change.
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The right doesn't actually have an anti-war politics. Tucker Carlson talking about how dumb the libs are for supporting war in Ukraine after a segment about woke candy is not politics. The masses are not mobilized by him and the rightists in power aren't gonna play along either.
Even if it's paltry it's leftists on the front of the anti-war movement still. It's leftists doing the agitating and organizing. What the right does is just spectacle. It's like pretending listening to your favorite podcast is politics.