Fred Hunt retweeted
@elonmusk Elon, I want to tell you something as a Ukrainian.
For years, many people in Ukraine admired and respected you. I was one of them. I personally saw you as a technological genius, a visionary, someone who was building the future while others were still living in the past.
And that is exactly why your growing hostility toward Ukraine is so difficult for me to understand.
Ukraine is not a perfect country. We have corruption, political failures, and many problems. Nobody denies that. But tell me, which country is perfect?
Ukraine is also a country of incredibly talented engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, developers, artists, and ordinary hardworking people. We build world-class technology, innovate under impossible conditions, value education, and have repeatedly shown the world what courage, resilience, and human dignity look like.
We are a country that voluntarily gave up the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for security assurances.
We are a nation that stood up in 2014, during the Revolution of Dignity, because we refused to live under authoritarianism and Russian domination. We wanted freedom, democracy, and the right to choose our own future.
And today, we are fighting for that same freedom.
Every day, Ukrainian civilians are killed by Russian missiles, drones, and bombs. Children lose their parents. Parents bury their children. Entire cities are destroyed. Millions of lives have been shattered.
These people are not dying because of Zelenskyy. They are not dying because of Ukrainian corruption. They are dying because Putin chose to invade another sovereign nation and continues to wage a war against its people, cities, culture, and identity.
Yes, corruption must be fought. Yes, every dollar of international aid must be accounted for. Ukrainians themselves deserve transparency and justice more than anyone.
But corruption does not justify invasion. Political failures do not justify bombing children. And no amount of criticism of Ukraine changes who crossed the border with an invading army.
You seem to believe that giving up Donbas and Luhansk could bring peace. But why should we believe Putin would stop there?
He already violated Ukraine's sovereignty after promising to respect it. He took Crimea in 2014. He fueled war in Donbas. And in 2022, he launched a full-scale invasion.
What makes you think another territorial concession would finally satisfy him?
History has shown us what happens when democracies believe they can secure lasting peace by rewarding an aggressor with someone else's land.
We have seen this before, in Europe, in the years leading up to World War II.
Peace built on surrender to a dictator is not necessarily peace. Sometimes it is simply an invitation to the next war.
Elon, you are a man who talks about the future of humanity, about making civilization better, about taking humanity to Mars.
But what kind of future are we building if we accept that powerful dictators can erase smaller nations simply because they have more weapons?
Ukraine is not asking the world to pretend we are perfect.
We are asking the world to recognize that we have the same right to exist, to be free, and to determine our future as Americans do.
And one more thing: Ukrainians have never been your enemies. Many of us admired you, believed in your vision, and appreciated what Starlink made possible during the darkest days of this war.
That is why your words hurt more than you might realize.
You have enormous influence. Your voice can shape how millions of people understand this war.
I still want to believe that the man who dreams of advancing humanity can recognize the humanity of people fighting simply to survive.
It is not too late to stand on the right side of history.
Not on Zelenskyy's side. Not on any politician's side.
On the side of freedom. On the side of human life. On the side of a nation's right to exist.
That is all we are asking for.
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Fred Hunt retweeted
When the intelligence community refers to methods of recruiting spies, they use a mnemonic called M.I.C.E.
Each one is a way to control someone.
Trump is textbook all four.
Money - Greedy as fuck
Ideology - Hates the "deep state"
Coercion - likes 'em young
Ego - lol
Fred Hunt retweeted
Tucker Carlson grilling Jacob Rees-Mogg about the UK defeating Hitler, provoking Russia
@TuckerCarlson
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Fred Hunt retweeted
I hear Carlson a bit differently here. Yes, he's definitely suggesting he'd be fine with the Nazis winning. the war and defeating Britain. But what comes through for me is the profound intellectual and moral unseriousness. It's a kind of debater's nihilism that thinks any good sounding talking point is a good point.
For instance, he says at least if Germany won, Britain would be speaking a "European language."
That sounds clever to un-clever people. But it's moronic on its own terms (Would Tucker be okay with Americans speaking Spanish? That's a European language, too). It reduces the interests and issues involved in WWII down to a ridiculous single metric. It's childish bullshit, but it sounds sophisticated to the insipid and the ignorant and it thrills those who understand the trolling of it.
And that's why this interview is representative of Tucker more broadly these days. He's at sea. Nothing really matters except "winning" the conversation, the moment, the clicks. He's embraced a kind of Nietzschean amoralism that thinks sowing doubt in any notions of right v wrong, good v evil, traditional patriotism v transgressive iconoclasm is self-rewarding.
"Neocons" and their ilk think Putin is bad? I'll claim he's awesome with the dumbest arguments imaginable packaged like they're smart.
Similarly, Tucker likes to traffic in the idea that Hitler should have won, not because Tucker's a big believer in Nazism.
He's not a big believer in *anything* other than the bit itself.
He likes the idea that the Nazis should have won, because he likes turning over turtles and being a dick for the amusement of people who celebrate dickishness. More specifically, he also likes it because the argument that it was a good thing we defeated the Nazis is inconvenient to him and his pet causes. That America and the UK were the good guys still has heft, substance, and authority, and Tucker's whole transvaluative approach is to burn down good things with weight and substance by elevating evil bullshit into seriousness to prove his own transgressive courage.
Every argument is permitted and equally valid because all truths are equally just matters of opinion. The superior opinion isn't the one with the better facts or the better reasoning, it's just the one more confidently or sneeringly expressed.
That's why this interview went badly for Tucker, because he ran into someone who actually knows true things and is confident in what he knows. This is also why Tucker spends most of his time talking to cranks, bigots, weirdoes, and hacks who are good at sounding like experts so long as their bullshit goes unchallenged. Tucker doesn't give a rat's ass about ideas or history. He cares about vibes and sowing moral doubt about what is good by hawking moral support for what is bad. The Holocaust becomes a triviality in that project, which in a very real way, is worse than denying it happened. He's denying it didn't really matter much if it did.
Fred Hunt retweeted
This is absolutely priceless.
Tucker just states as fact that Russia has a much larger economy than the UK, is completely wrong and gets schooled.
Fred Hunt retweeted
"Bucha was a Ukrainian false flag" is the dumbest propaganda of the century.
Note the russian escorting the Ukrainian in a blue jacket at gun point.
Note the Ukrainian in the blue jacket dead with his hands tied behind his back.
Now fuck off, you war crime denying asshole.
Fred Hunt retweeted
Russia is starving Ukrainians in the occupied city of Oleshky.
More than 6,000 people, including 200 children, have been deprived of basic necessities since May 26 and are unable to flee.
This is genocide.
Russia is a monster.
Google Oleshky
Fred Hunt retweeted
Trump went crazy and bombed Iran. That’s why your gas prices are going up.
Russia has already started WW3.
Just like they started WW2 with Nazi Germany., by invading neighbouring countries
Fred Hunt retweeted
La mayoría de esos son nacionalistas extremos, y libertarios pro-milei bruh, la mayoría ahora mismo estamos muy ocupados en otras cosas para concentrarnos en Malvinas cuando tenemos un gobierno que constantemente pone en riesgo nuestra soberania al aliarse con Israel.
Fred Hunt retweeted
Alexey Milchakov, co-founder of the Russian neo-Nazi Rusich battalion, would agree with me.
Literally his interview.
youtu.be/KBK5rEEbQc0
