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> Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. What do you mean exactly? > For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Mos

> Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. What do you mean exactly? > For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco The West establishment has a soft spot for autocrats: whitewashing the wealth of oligarchs, buying cheap oil stolen from common people, selling anti-protest crowd control gear and tear gas, etc, etc; even though "lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion". I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that.

JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
> > I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that. Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion Like it’s cool or something that an autocrat with a cult of personality controls 5000 nukes
- LarryMullins 4y ago
  > Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion I just scrolled through the past 8 years of thumbnails on his main channel and the past year of thumbnails on his clips channel. The thumbnail you describe doesn't exist. What I found is that he has several thumbnails of Putin looking stern, but without any sunglasses or nuclear blasts. (He also has thumbnails of Hitler and Stalin looking stern, but I don't take that to suggest he's simultaneously a communist and a nazi.) Additionally he has several videos with nuclear blast thumbnails, but none of them have anybody superimposed on front of the explosion. And he doesn't have any meme-like photoshopped sunglasses thumbnails. That sort of meme thumbnail doesn't seem to be his style. (I didn't watch any of these videos because I can't stand Lex, so I can't comment on what he actually says. But the sort of thumbnail you're describing just isn't his style.)
  - ajmurmann 4y ago
    Having watched a lot of Lex, I know that his family is Ukrainian and he recently visited Ukraine. It's very clear that he is by no means in support of Putin. However, he is clearly interested in Putin and other dictators as a historical and psychological phenomenon and seems fascinated by the idea of interviewing someone like that and the ethical aspects of it.
    - LarryMullins 4y ago
      He does seem like a sycophant to me, his interviewing personality grates on my nerves for several reasons and this is one of them. But I'm about 90% sure he's not been trying to make Putin look cool. At least, not in the thumbnails.

JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago

> > I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that. Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion Like it’s cool or something that an autocrat with a cult of personality controls 5000 nukes

LarryMullins 4y ago
> Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion I just scrolled through the past 8 years of thumbnails on his main channel and the past year of thumbnails on his clips channel. The thumbnail you describe doesn't exist. What I found is that he has several thumbnails of Putin looking stern, but without any sunglasses or nuclear blasts. (He also has thumbnails of Hitler and Stalin looking stern, but I don't take that to suggest he's simultaneously a communist and a nazi.) Additionally he has several videos with nuclear blast thumbnails, but none of them have anybody superimposed on front of the explosion. And he doesn't have any meme-like photoshopped sunglasses thumbnails. That sort of meme thumbnail doesn't seem to be his style. (I didn't watch any of these videos because I can't stand Lex, so I can't comment on what he actually says. But the sort of thumbnail you're describing just isn't his style.)
- ajmurmann 4y ago
  Having watched a lot of Lex, I know that his family is Ukrainian and he recently visited Ukraine. It's very clear that he is by no means in support of Putin. However, he is clearly interested in Putin and other dictators as a historical and psychological phenomenon and seems fascinated by the idea of interviewing someone like that and the ethical aspects of it.
  - LarryMullins 4y ago
    He does seem like a sycophant to me, his interviewing personality grates on my nerves for several reasons and this is one of them. But I'm about 90% sure he's not been trying to make Putin look cool. At least, not in the thumbnails.