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I get it. You've got nothing. So you try to make it personal.

Clearly, Tucker Carlson has always been politically repugnant.

Interesting or not, this is false: "To be fair Tucker Carlson started out as a liberal and intellectual in the US."

Yes, it was an incredible feat. But if the US hadn't supplied the materiel while those factories were out of commission, there would have been a very different outcome.

I confused you with BangkokHank who made a post claiming that the Holocaust never happened. My apologies. You never said any such thing.

Really? If Churchll had agreed to a peace treaty or truce with Hitler, most of the soldiers and materiel that was being held in reserve in the West and being consumed in the fighting in North Africa, could have gone to the Russian War effort. Without the British navy that was so effective in stifling supplies from coming in to Germany, HItler would have been able to wage a much more effective war against the Russians

Another point you failed to mention is that Lend-Lease aid came at a crucial juncture for the Soviets. It was during the period when they were moving their industrial capacity east.

So what? You never mentioned until I called you on the strategic reasons for Churchill's decision. Once again, here's what you wrote: "Anyone who looks at the Bengal famine will immediately realise that British actions contributed greatly to the final death toll, also Churchill's policy to store food under the Indian's noses but not to give them any, but instead to divert it for use by the British very obviously killed a large number of people." So, according to you, not just Churchill but British actions.

Even if that was true, which it isn't, how would it be fair to mention that? Fox News host Tucker Carlson did indeed list membership in groups called the Dan White Society and the Jesse Helms Foundation in his college yearbook, officials with the school have confirmed. An image began circulating on Twitter Wednesday of a page from Carlson's senior yearbook from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. As a 22-year-old in 1991, Carlson listed the two groups among his extracurricular activities -- one named for the San Francisco politician who killed gay S.F. Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in 1978, the other for the virulently homophobic U.S. senator from North Carolina. https://www.advocate.com/media/2021/4/22/tucker-carlson-once-lauded-harvey-milks-killer-and-antigay-senator

I never denied that it was awful. I just pointed out that until this post you characterized the famine as being due to the British wanting to keep the supplies for themselves. Never did you mention the strategic reasoning behind it.

More falsehoods from you. Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper. Lend-Lease also sent aviation fuel equivalent to 57 percent of what the Soviet Union itself produced. Much of the American fuel was added to lower-grade Soviet fuel to produce the high-octane fuel needed by modern military aircraft. https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html

It's interesting to learn that Tucker Carlson is a modern day liberal. Or maybe this is just a Pavlovian response from you? Do you understand that this claim was made by Darryl Cooper, an extremely right wing person. during the interview with Tucker Carlson? Do you understand that Tucker Carlson showered Cooper with praise?

Who do you think you're kidding? Your take on it never mentioned UK strategic concerns. Just that the British were keeping the supplies for themselves.

Roughly 17.5 million tons of military equipment, vehicles, industrial supplies, and food were shipped from the Western Hemisphere to the USSR, 94% coming from the US. For comparison, a total of 22 million tons landed in Europe to supply American forces from January 1942 to May 1945. It has been estimated that American deliveries to the USSR through the Persian Corridor alone were sufficient, by US Army standards, to maintain sixty combat divisions in the line.[61][62] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#:~:text=In total%2C the U.S. deliveries,4%2C719 were Bell P-39

Here's what you previously wrote "Anyone who looks at the Bengal famine will immediately realise that British actions contributed greatly to the final death toll, also Churchill's policy to store food under the Indian's noses but not to give them any, but instead to divert it for use by the British very obviously killed a large number of people."

And, I believe that this is the first time you mentioned here why the policy was instituted. Have I got that wrong?

What you fail to mention is that Britain was facing the Japanese in Burma and didn't want supplies to fall into their hands. It wasn't so much about keeping supplies from the British but rather keeping supplies from the Japanese. Was Churchill callous about the Indians. Absolutely. But was he purposely engaged in a war of extermination against them? Absolutely not. Posterity revealed that he made the wrong call.

Given that few tweens or teens constitute her huge fanbase, would you expect it to be different? What exactly is your point?

The thing is, while those claims have been debunked here, in the alternate universe that frank83628 inhabits, it's a real thing.

Thank you for your gracious acknowledgement that you got it massively wrong.

Didn't take you long to get your facts wrong. First of all, Taylor Swift's audience isn't composed much of tweens or teenagers. If you actually listened to her music you would know it's not aimed at them. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1372971/taylor-swift-fans-by-generation/ And then there's this: Taylor Swift drove 405,999 visitors to vote.gov in 24 hours after Kamala Harris endorsement Taylor Swift's post endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the White House on Tuesday drove 405,999 users to visit the site vote.gov over the course of the following day, a sign of the potential effect her decision to speak out could have on November's election. Vote.gov is run by a federal agency known as the General Services Administration, in partnership with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The site includes information about how to register to vote and cast a ballot, and directs users to state sites where they can register. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-endorsement-vote-gov/

You sure about that? While humans may not have evolved to eat ultraprocessed foods and sugar, they certainly didn't evolve to be pure carnivores. In fact, genetic studies show that different human groups have adapted to different kinds of diets. As for vegetables having changed, what about livestock. You think that the animals raised today are the same as those that existed 100 years ago? You think that their diet is the same? That the fat content of their muscles is the same? The Evolution of Diet Some experts say modern humans should eat from a Stone Age menu. What's on it may surprise you. It’s true that hunter-gatherers around the world crave meat more than any other food and usually get around 30 percent of their annual calories from animals. But most also endure lean times when they eat less than a handful of meat each week. New studies suggest that more than a reliance on meat in ancient human diets fueled the brain’s expansion. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/#:~:text=It's true that hunter-gatherers,their annual calories from animals. Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist Researchers reject ‘macho caveman’ stereotype after burial site evidence suggests a largely plant-based diet Early human hunter-gatherers ate mostly plants and vegetables, according to archeological findings that undermine the commonly held view that our ancestors lived on a high protein, meat-heavy diet. The evidence, from the remains of 24 individuals from two burial sites in the Peruvian Andes dating to between 9,000 and 6,500 years ago, suggests that wild potatoes and other root vegetables may have been a dominant source of nutrition before the shift to an agricultural lifestyle. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/24/hunter-gatherers-were-mostly-gatherers-says-archaeologist

What is this nonsense about the failure of the UK and France to liberate Poland? They declared war on Germany because it had invaded Poland. Are you unaware that France and the UK don't actually share any borders with Poland? How would you expect them to liberate Poland without going through Germany? As for your claim that Britain had no real means to fight. Are you forgetting that it had a Navy that crippled the Germany navy except for U-boats. And that the Navy was responsible for a highly effective blockade And that, in fact, the British army inflicted so much damage on the Italians in North Africa that Germany had to intervene on Italy's side?

What's that got to do with a living minimum wage?

Because Hitler could definitely be trusted. After all, he was a such a rational actor. What could be more sane than exterminating the Jews, who had done so much to advance German science and industry. And has been pointed out, when Germany launched its attack on the Benelux nations, Churchill wasn't Prime minister.