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joenakamoto | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 He’s a dictator with a disregard for human life and a track record of deceit. 

Show me a democratic election and we can talk about his popularity
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MuckytheMoose | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Unfortunately the same (dictator with a disregard for human life and a track record of deceit) can be said about most "western" leaders now.

They are all lying to us, and the media supports it.  There are very few journalists who even try to speak-truth-to-power.

Is Tucker 'Hyping it up'... yes.

Is Putin using Tucker to deliver a skewed message ... most certainly.

But censoring these messages is never a good thing.  

We need to rely on everyone's built in intelligence and skepticism to identify the skewed messages and down-right lies for themselves.   ...unfortunately (again) these muscles have atrophied in today's 'modern society'.
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Han Sanders | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 To be fair, for the disregard and deceit part the same could be said about the current and former US president and UK PM's like Johnson, Cameron, Blair.

And even dictators have a hard time when they have no majority support and they are pushing unpopular things like drafting into an unsupported war. If there was no popular support for him or his measures, I doubt the war could have been sustained 2 years