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The Russian leader was given the opportunity to expound familiar grievances unchallenged.

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[–] senseamidmadness@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

The fact that we're talking about this means that, as a publicity stunt, it worked. Tucker got a massive amount of media attention for this.

And in the social media algorithm, there's no such thing as bad publicity; all that matters is engagement.

Personally I won't be watching. Not even for the memes. If enough people ignored pundits like Tucker Carlson, they'd go away.