WordJam: February 2024

Saturday 10 February 2024

WordJam Message Board: Special Discussion

Today's Topic: What did you think of Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin?

JUstinBieberLover39888655592 - February 10, 18:01

I didnt like it. Evry time Puttin sed some thin ther was this weird voice talkin over him an I cudnt make out what he was sayin

RussiaBot1917 - February 10, 18:02

That was the translation, moron.

JUstinBieberLover39888655592 - February 10, 18:03

Oh rite

MemeKing - February 10, 18:04

Tucker be like:

SonOfArchieBunker - February 10, 18:06

The best part's been watching the full-on meltdown by the military-industrial MSM. Who knew they hated the truth so much?

TruthTeller1981 - February 10, 18:07

@SonOfArchieBunker: It's one thing to say this interview told the truth, but it's another thing to say that it didn't.

RussiaBot1917 - February 10, 18:08

@TruthTeller1981: ...Well, you can't argue with that.

NikkiHaleyMILFGoddess - February 10, 18:09

I wasn't taken in by Putin's lies for one second. There was no written agreement preventing NATO from expanding into Eastern Europe, and yet Tucker let him repeat that lie over and over without correcting him. Let yourselves be tricked by Russian misinformation all you like, but I'm not giving one inch to that evil, bloodthirsty dictator.

RamaswamyRulez - February 10, 18:10

@NikkiHaleyMILFGoddess: Putin does say in the interview it was a verbal rather than written agreement. And this is backed up in the NSA archives in transcripts of conversations between Gorbachev and James Baker, Douglas Hurd, François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl, among others.

NikkiHaleyMILFGoddess - February 10, 18:12

@RamaswarmyRulez: My mistake. Fair play to him.

RainbowPrincess456 - February 10, 18:17

What did I think? Uhm... MALE, PALE and STALE!!! 😠😠😠 The war in Ukraine started because of privileged, cishet whyte men like Putin and Tucker Carlson, and it'll only end when Global Majority 2SLGBTQIA+ womxn of all genders are allowed into the conference chambers of the world to sort this mess out!!! 🌈🦄💗 #TheFutureIsQueer

RussiaBot1917 - February 10, 18:18

@RainbowPrincess456: You can type that shit but you sure can't read it.

MAGA1776 - February 10, 18:20

It was the interview of the decade: a real journalist in front of a real statesman discussing why we're in the mess we're in. Go Tucker!

KarenKilla - February 10, 18:22

@MAGA1776: Tucker's just jealous Orange Man's been taking it in the ass from Sweet Daddy Putin and he wanted in on the action. Get in line, MAGAt...

Biden2024 - February 10, 18:24

@KarenKilla: From what I heard it was just Tucker throwing softball questions and letting Vlad drone on about Russian history and make out he's a victim. It takes a special kind of idiot to think this is journalism.

KarenKilla - February 10, 18:25

@Biden2024: I know. I SAW it. And I didn't say it was journalism. Why don't you try reading what I actually said instead of twisting it and making assumptions, you misogynist piece of white shit.

Biden2024 - February 10, 18:26

@KarenKilla: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I was just building on what you said. I meant idiots like @MAGA1776.

MAGA1776 - February 10, 18:27

@Biden2024: Fuck you, retard.

Biden2024 - February 10, 18:28

@MAGA1776: I know you are but what am I?

MelGibsonIsGod - February 10, 18:33

I was moved to hear Putin discuss his faith so openly and honestly. When he said about Russia and Ukraine becoming one again with each other through the soul (our most precious gift from The Heavenly Father Our Creator) my heart melted. As a fellow Catholic I totally agree with him that it is love and shared spiritual values which build bridges not politics and ideology.

RamaswamyRulez - February 10, 18:35

@MelGibsonIsGod: He's not Catholic, he's Russian Orthodox.

MelGibsonIsGod - February 10, 18:36

@RamaswamyRulez: Then he can burn in hell for all I care.

RussiaBot1917 - February 10, 18:38

@Biden2024: Are we to infer you didn't watch it, then?

Biden2024 - February 10, 18:40

@RussiaBot1917: I don't need to to know it's just a propaganda exercise. Just by interviewing Putin Tucker's shown what a useful idiot he is and where his true allegiances lie. His citizenship should be revoked IMMEDIATELY.

RamaswamyRulez - February 10, 18:42

@Biden2024: And those other journalists who claim to have been queuing up to interview Putin since the war began (CNN's Christiane Amanpour, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg, Politico's Heidi Pryzbyla, etc) - are they all traitors too? Or is it just journalists of a certain stripe?

Biden2024 - February 10, 18:43

@RamaswamyRulez: Nice whataboutism, SHAMaswarmy boy.

RamaswamyRulez - February 10, 18:44

@Biden2024: Whataboutism or highlighting the flaw in your 'argument'? 🤔

Biden2024 - February 10, 18:46

@RamaswamyRulez: He platformed an anti-democratic, authoritarian strongman. There is no argument.

MAGA1776 - February 10, 18:47

@ Biden2024: "There is no argument" - you said it 😜

RamaswamyRulez - February 10, 18:50

@Biden2024: You mean like Erin Burnett from CNN when she interviewed Zelensky? The not-at-all anti-democratic, authoritarian strongman who banned an entire religious denomination, suspended elections, imprisoned political opponents and dresses like Action Man circa. 1982?

Biden2024 - February 10, 19:01

@MAGA1776: Fuck you, retard.

MAGA1776 - February 10, 19:02

@Biden2024: I know you are but what am I?

TruthTeller1981 - February 10, 19:05

We're just going round in circles talking about this interview when the most important point hasn't even been raised yet.

RussiaBot1917 - February 10, 19:06

Which is?

TruthTeller1981 - February 10, 19:07

I don't know, it hasn't been raised yet.

WhoWatchesTheWatchmen9/11 - February 10, 19:09

The most important point is that (((Zelensky))) is just a spokesman for his (((paymasters))) in (((Washington))).

RussiaBot1917 - February 10, 19:10

@WhoWatchesTheWatchmen9/11: Let me guess, the dome on top of the Capitol Building gives it away?

WhoWatchesTheWatchmen9/11 - February 10, 19:11

@RussiaBot1917: You got it...

BLM4EVA1865 - February 10, 19:13

@WhoWatchesTheWatchmen9/11: From sea to shining sea, the USA will be free... ✊

RussiaBot1917 - February 10, 19:14

Dear God.

JUstinBieberLover39888655592 - February 10, 19:18

My mom ses Rusha shud send a jurnalist to inter view Pressident Biden for too hours. THen we wud see who really knows what s goin on

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Trivial Shit That Really Pisses Me Off (AKA: 'It's a Conspiracy, I Tells Ya...')

DVD has long been a godsend for fans of world cinema, especially when the films you're interested in watching have either failed to pick up theatrical distribution in your country or are unavailable via streaming services. Having said that, it's not very reassuring to find the people responsible for marketing these home media releases either have absolutely no awareness of the content of the films they're trying to promote, or - and this is more likely - are quite happy to mislead undiscerning DVD hounds with cover art that bears very little relation to the flicks they're pushing in the hope of making a quick buck. (As a fan of German and Russian cinema, I find this tends to be a regular feature of my consumer life.) I therefore present some examples of this ignorant and, dare I say it, underhanded practice in the vain hope that someone at Entertainment One, Metrodome or the otherwise excellent Arrow Video is actually reading this.

Bring on the accused...

Gagarin: First in Space - DVD release

For some reason, the Entertainment One DVD shows Gagarin as a combination of Keir Dullea wandering around the Regency-era bedroom in '2001: A Space Odyssey', Sandra Bullock holding on for dear life in 'Gravity' and John Hurt about to be orally-raped in 'Alien'. The original theatrical poster may be a little clichéd with its profile shot of Yaroslav Zhalin staring into eternity, but at least it's trying to be awe-inspiring rather than suggesting - somewhat cynically, I think - that the first human being's journey into space was, well, a bit boring.

2. Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin - theatrical poster

Max Färberböck's adaptation of 'Eine Frau in Berlin', based on the anonymous memoirs of a female journalist caught between sexual violence and emotional dependency in the dying days of the Second World War, was immediately controversial upon its release in Germany, and it doesn't require a doctorate in philosophy to understand why. Although it may not be the most sophisticated of films to deal with this subject matter, it's still a very powerful meditation on identity and gender politics that's still horribly relevant wherever women are caught in warzones and forced to compromise themselves, either against their will or to guarantee the safety of the people they love.

Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin - DVD release

"Fuck that: let's put Nina Hoss in a beret and make it look like an espionage thriller instead! While we're at it, we'll make that bloke stood next to her look like a Nazi of some kind. It's all right, no one'll know he's from the Red Army - unless they're the sort of sad bastards who watch the History Channel. And why don't we stick a bunch of planes in the background? Everyone loves an aerial dogfight. Actually, we could do with changing the title, too. What was that really good flick that came out a few years ago called? You know - the one about Hitler in the bunker?"