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Video https://youtu.be/2H7D2lNAeeY
He’s backpedaling but it seems pretty clear that he was in agreement at the time
“I agree with that” doesn’t get much more in agreement than that.
Mf actually said (hastily) “I agree”
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Just spins for me and doesn’t play video. Cool concept though, I hope it takes off.
Have that happen quite a bit. Just refresh the page a few times usually fixes it.
Took a nap and your comment was there when I woke up. Clicked it again and it worked immediately. Perhaps it was a server hug.
Ah, the "globalists".
I need not watch past that, because now I know he's on the side of Captain Inbred.
"Did I say Globalists? I meant Jews."
You should, because it gets worse. Much, much worse.
Don't think he knows what that means.
Viewed without the previous context of 2000 hours of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Ben Shapiro, and Tucker Carlson.
He tried to say he didn't hear that because it was loud outside. All the people I can see are smiling but not talking. Blatant lie.
Sounds like the guy said, “Joe mall” and buddy was like, “uhhh k yeah I agree”
Yeah because, as we all know, “I agree” is the only response to “Joe mall”
gtfo honestly
What? You’ve never been there where you can’t hear somebody say something and you’re like, “oh yeah for sure” because you need to move on.
Seriously, listen to the guy. He sounds like talking with no teeth and a mouth full of marbles.
I don’t know who this guy is, but his biggest faux pas here is saying, “I agree,” instead of “ok,” or something else.
Edit: oh never mind, after watching again this guy was asking leading questions. He’s a shit journalist.
Anyway, fuck this guy, but not for that part. I honestly believe he didn’t understand what ol’ Fatface Marblemouth there was saying because I didn’t either even while not having to deal with all the background noise.
Edit 2: The downvotes tell me that tribalism is alive and well on the left. There’s plenty of things to criticize republicans on, why waste your time and energy getting mad about this? By showing you’re opponents zero understanding as human beings you’re also showing that you’ve fallen for the diversionary tactics used by those to keep us fighting amongst each other.
If he only said it the first time, I’d agree with you that it’s possible. But he said it, and then said it again more clearly. I’m sorry, but you can’t chalk this up to “he didn’t understand/hear.” If it were really loud there, even, and he said it twice, maybe you’d have a point. But it was not very loud where they were standing.
Not to mention, he had the context of the conversation they were having. He was trying to goad them into spouting their rhetoric. There’s no way, given the context, the volume of the area, the fact that he said it twice…I’m sorry, you can’t buy his bullshit back peddling.
I think exactly what they’d hope would happen has happened: create a controversy to become the new OAN. I, for sure, had never heard of “far right news” or whatever the fuck the name of that “network” was.
Yeah I get what you’re saying, but just yesterday at work I asked a guy to repeat himself and I did the whole “ok yeah gotcha” thing when I didn’t understand what he said even the second time. It happens.
I’m not saying this guy isn’t a piece of shit, I’m just saying this incident isn’t the one to nail him on. The whole, “the globalists? The lefties?” or whatever the exact quote was is much more egregious in my opinion. A reporter shouldn’t be influencing people’s opinions.
I agree with you about the context. I can tell this guy is part of the problem in America, I’m just not going to condemn him for something I did just yesterday. 🤷🏻♂️
Come on, you can’t be that naive. Yes, misunderstandings happen. But what are the chances that this reporter had a misunderstanding exactly when it was most politically expedient for him?
There is this weird thing people do in modern politics, where the people that have the same political beliefs they do can just never be wrong. People have their team, and everything that comes out of anyone with the same color shirt on or the right letter next to their name is suddenly defensible, no matter how obviously silly or ridiculous.
Like communists will defend every single massacre perpetrated under the banner of communism. It’s absolutely insane. Just admit that people who you agree with can do/say things that are just wrong. It’s not that hard. And it doesn’t make your convictions less your convictions.
Dude said he wants to kill everyone that isn't a trump supporter and you're crying about tribalism on the left because of downvotes? Fucking seriously?
Haven't you heard? Clicking a down arrow on the internet is literally the exact same thing as making a death threat. Both sides are equally bad!
He has an earpiece in, he can hear what’s being said into the microphone. He agreed because he was pandering.
Bro you can’t even admit that this dude meant what he said because he’s right wing and you’re whining about tribalism
I mean, he could be lying. I’m just saying it’s not unbelievable that he didn’t understand what he was “agreeing” too because it’s loud and the moron he’s talking to can barely speak.
I don’t fucking care if he meant it or not. Everyone’s right that he’s a shit journalist. My point is that you could get on his case about the other obvious propaganda tactics in the video instead of the one that will never gain traction and I can’t believe that me making fun of old Marblemouth there led to me being called a Nazi in the comments. 🙄🙄🙄
Everyone here is so eager for a fight? Put your money where your mouth is, go find him, punch him in the mouth and leave me alone. I’ll pitch five bucks for your flight.
This is all a lot less funny when you put into context that nearly all domestic terrorism in the US is from right wingers. These people listen when others say to be violent.
Why are Nazis and people concern trolling for Nazis allowed on this server? Doesn't lemm.ee have rules against that sort of thing?
Way to play right in to the real Nazis hands, bud.
Nope, that's not going to work on me. I used to be a centrist, I know the game and I am not going to be taken in by you pretending to be an impassive third party when im reality, you support and defend a hate group that wants to kill anyone different from them.
Cool man. Tell me what I think. That’s really productive.
Gladly:
You're in here because you have befriended a bunch of right wingers, probably on their Discord even though they were banned from the platform years ago. You heard the rumors of how hateful and bigoted they are, but when you went to see what all the hullabaloo was all about, they were actually welcoming to you. Chill..Perhaps even kind. And their opposition to the lockdowns made sense, so you shacked up with them politically.
Cut to you seeing leftfam frothing at the mouth over blatant death threats you've become conditioned to automatically dismiss as overblown, because you know these people, and they wouldn't hurt you (snrrk), so a Trump supporter saying live on TV "kill 'em all" and a reporter agreeing with him must not be just that. It has to be a miscommunication, or the reporter didn't hear even though the guy said it twice, or any number of dumbass excuses you've already conjured up to protect your "friends".
Wake the fuck up, dumbass: the right wing are NOT your friends, they are not reasonable or principled or have your best interests at heart. They are petty, vindictive, immature and champing at the bit to get back at the left for the lockdowns, and that's why they are openly aggressive now. You are not "one of the good ones". They are not going to spare you either.
They want to kill anyone who doesn't agree with them or lives the way they want you to. They overturned Roe vs. Wade which has already killed and maimed people. Ron Desantis is putting out campaign ads bragging about the anti-LGBTQ laws he got passed in Florida, with fucking soldiers goose-stepping toward Nazi symbols. And now this.
They are openly saying they want to kill anyone who is different from them, and you are defending them.
You are a despicable piece of shit.
From the quick scan of it I can tell you’ve made many incorrect assumptions about me and my life. Like waaaaaaaay the fuck off base and ended it by calling me a piece of shit, but I don’t need to explain myself to you so fuck off, pal.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure it was "Let's go brandon"