• Tachanka [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      kanye is a christian chauvinist and putin pretends to be super orthodox christian so that doesn't surprise me.

    • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Haven’t seen anything that shows this. Just that he was planning a business trip in January but canceled it. Is this another lib brainworm of “guy who goes to Russia is a Putler lover” or is there some statement I’m missing?

      • dead [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        He said so during the Alex Jones interview. It's not a "russiagate" thing. Some of the far-right is pro-Putin. Nick Fuentes is pro-Putin. Nick Fuentes said during Kanye interview that he's pro-Putin because Putin is Conservative and Christian, Kanye replied that he agrees with Nick about Putin.

        • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Ah, there’s no way I’m watching that whole shitfest. I’d be interested in hearing this section though to see if it was a casual offhand thing about Putin being culturally based or if they actually support the Russian SMO

          • dead [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The timestamp on the interview is 01:49:00 on the full video. Youtube and social media is taking down all clips from the interview. You can find the full video on Alex Jones's website.

            transcript cw/ alex jones, nick fuentes, kanye west

            Alex: What else is on your radar? What do you think about the Ukraine war? What do you think about the devaluation of the dollar? What do you think about FTX and bitcoin? There's so many topics.

            Kanye: Nick?

            Nick: Well uh, yeah. In terms of Ukraine and Russia, I haven't seen much of that in the news. I am, of course, very pro-Putin. I am very pro-Russia. Um.

            Kanye: I am also.

            Nick: Let's go! Um. You know. You see this is just an extension of the United States neocon establishment new world order type stuff.

            Kanye: What does Putin say about America's value system?

            Nick: So he said in a speech when he annexed those 2 breakaway provinces and he annexed the Donbas. He said in his speech that we have totally abandoned traditional values and traditional faith -- and that we've embraced full-on Satanism and he's totally right.

            Alex: It's true. America is embracing Satanism.

            Kanye: Jesus is alive....

            <Kanye continues to go on a long Christianity rant, unrelated to Putin or Russia>

            • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              lol sounds like it’s Fuentes who has the ideological positions here and Kanye is just nodding along. Funny to say he doesn’t hear much about Russia-Ukraine in the news, shows how different rightoid news is than lib news. Libs can’t shut the fuck up about it for 10 months straight.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The European right has always been quite favourable to Putin, especially after Russia started really clamping down on LGBTQ-rights, and also for his conduct during the Second Chechen War, since Euro-racism was redirected to middle easterners and muslims in general in the lead up to the Iraq War. Of course, now that it's become anathema to say anything positive about Putin, they know that they need to shut the fuck up. It's also why the only European leader that ever suggests lifting the sanctions that are currently fucking over the entire continent is Victor Orban, who is probably the most right wing guy on the continent. Italy's prime minister is too beholden to the NatSec state and I don't think she ever really gets to dictate her own foreign policy compared to what Hungary is doing.