He’s not “citing” Dugin based on Dugin being credible, he is “citing” Dugin based on Dugin being a fascist menace. He’s wrong (Dugin is a fascist, but not some central influence), but the line that you’ve copy/pasted in like four different places doesn’t make sense.
Comparing China to Russia is silly, and comparing China to America is disqualifyingly ridiculous
I don’t think this guy actually reads Dugin as much as he is fed quotes from BlueAnon people, but it’s actually a good thing to be familiar with the content of Mein Kampf because it destroys countless liberal myths about Germans having the Holocaust be kept secret from them, about the Soviets believing Hitler was their ally, that the future western Allies weren’t tolerant of such things, and so on. Hitler really does lay out all the most important aspects of what the Nazis would go on to do, and people around the world read his book and unquestionably saw it coming, which is a very simple proof that certain liberal readings of history around these issues are completely false. Likewise, I think that if Dugin was really that important to Russia, it is a perfectly reasonable thing to be as familiar with his work because it would help you understand the Russian state and the reactions of various other parties. The main issue is that he isn’t that important.
Remember, you can’t defeat fascists at scale by being ignorant of them.
This guy is a dumb lib dweeb, but what he’s saying is that “Dugninism” is the guiding philosophy of the RF and beloved by people like Putin. So he’s not citing Mein Kampf on Mein Kampf’s authority, he’s pointing to people liking Mein Kampf and then explaining their actions in terms of what Mein Kampf says.
The critical difference being that Dugin’s influence is wildly overstated and he’s just sort of a cartoon villain for liberals to invent conspiracies about because he says a lot more wild stuff than Putin. Obviously Dugin is evil and has a political faction, but he’s not some national puppetmaster.
This person is a horrible reactionary, but this one point is at least mostly correct. A lot of dumb hogs thought Trump was serious about stopping wars and avoiding new ones, so of course they oppose the bombing even if they think all Persians are evil
You are suggesting that the Holocaust was the cause of WWII. That is not the case. Likewise, if the Nazis only targeted German Jews, disabled, etc., Churchill and friends would have wagged their finger but continued supporting them.
Is “Goblin” Musk here? You keep talking about intellectual seriousness and then using childish nicknames. Like, let me be clear, Musk should be executed, I’m not making a moral claim against you there, I just think you look silly and are hampering your own communication.
Trump won the election. The Electoral College itself is anti-democratic, but within the parameters of winning the electoral college, Trump won and pretending he didn’t is lowering yourself to his level in 2020 when his loss was just as obvious and explainable as Kamala’s subsequently was.
Alright, so No True Scotsman
I’m also kind of skeptical of the substance even of your claim about those specific books, because you’ve been doing a lot of handwaving of American crimes that you nominally condemn elsewhere in this thread, and you and I both know there are countless tellings of the history of American slavers that handwring about the obvious evil but ultimately don’t take it that seriously. It’s paying a tax more than anything.
The Cuban Revolution had some summary executions, that is nothing compared to the crimes of what I can’t help but notice are almost all western nations over the past few centuries.
he’s only been in power for a few months
So the full term before is nothing?
and they are preparing for a future in which prison slaves will be a major labor force in America.
It’s only the future as a product of being true for a very long time already.
This is legitimately a line that Republicans use to downplay America’s crimes. Many countries have done less than the mountain of genocides the US has perpetrated. Also, why are you assuming they aren’t American or that they are trying to lionize their home country?
he is worse than ALL other American traitors, COMBINED
If we pretend traitor means “did a bad thing” even when that bad thing is consistent with America’s project, which seems to be your meaning, Trump still isn’t as bad as Reagan or W or Andrew Johnson.
Those are just words, dog. Some slave owners rhapsodizing about freedom and then codifying and defending chattel slavery does not mean that they are really motivated by caring about freedom. You are just giving the meaningless scribblings of America’s original oligarchs a complete mnoopoly on the idea of democracy when we have documentation from them about how they want to limit it and literally the sole reason that things like the Senate exist is to check democracy, something still presented as a good thing in many civics classes today.
I am politically independent, so nobody is more aware of America’s problematic history,
Someone who proudly declares they vote for the lesser evil does not understand America’s problematic history or they would understand how the Democrats were as important to Trump’s success as the Republicans.
Almost like America uses Israel as a proxy and those should also be counted as American bombs, and also they are literally American bombs.
Most of those transnational corporations are American and almost all of them, especially weighted by wealth, are heavily tied to the US government.
I do think you have the beginning of the right idea though, because the fundamental problem is the owning class. Your errors that compromise being correct here are not realizing: The owning class has always been the fundamental problem throughout recorded history and America has always been controlled by them with only internal factional disputes “challenging” this.
Remember, immigrants aren’t just being deported or exiled, because those terms imply that they get to be free at least within wherever they are sent to, rather than being sent to a foreign prison to be used a slaves indefinitely.
There is also this statement:
The book emphasizes that Russia must spread geopolitical anti-Americanism everywhere: “the main ‘scapegoat’ will be precisely the U.S.”
And here is this community, doing exactly what Putin wants you to do.
Not only is Putin behind the rise of far right politics, you are falling right into his trap, and helping him.
Obviously, I don’t agree with the rest of what you said either, but this part is really egregious. The US is the global hegemon, and its crimes are innumerable but I can list as many as you like. Its power is difficult to overstate, nor its involvement in the dire state of the world at present. Obviously it gets used as a bizarre scapegoat by reactionaries in the imperial periphery and semi-periphery (e.g., blaming queerness on an American attempt to corrupt public morality), but that’s very different from correctly identifying America for its actual genocidal atrocities, coups, imperialist extraction, and so on.
You really are falling into fundamentally conservative traps of thinking that idealize America as some pure thing being corrupted rather than seeing the machine for what it is.
Hilariously, Musk is the second one. Yeah, what a spooky foreigner he is. I had assumed he meant Bibi, which would have been silly but not as much so.
I think the DPRK already accepts USD for tourism, but even if it didn’t the answer to your question would probably be yes.