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[–] vegeta 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Headline on RT. At this point, he should just become their star Anchor.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At this point, he should just become their star Anchor.

Isn't he already?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] SkyezOpen 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What counts as "official"? Russian state media has been singing his praises for years, and he recently sat down with putin himself to let him spew his bullshit about the war. There's really nothing that distinguishes him from "official" Russian media besides the fact that he isn't russian.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or directly on their payroll.

[–] SkyezOpen 3 points 5 months ago

I assume it's indirect benefits rather than receiving checks directly from the Kremlin, but yeah I'm pretty sure he's getting something.

[–] yesman 35 points 5 months ago

I love it. Tucker used to have an enormous platform he'd share with knuckleheads. But his platform has gone from a stadium act to a tent revival.

And it's not because he was fascist, it's because Rupert Merdoch traded Tucker's whole career to get a discount on the Dominion settlement.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Word cannot express enough how much I loathe Tucker Fuck.

Literal modern age nazi, kkk, bullshit water muddier.

I dId tHe wOrLd a FaVoR bY giViNg a dIcTaTor a PlAtForM iN tHe UsA. PlEaSe gRoOm mE nExT dAdDy pUtIn.

Sickening honestly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago
[–] Carrolade 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dugin is no one's "brain". He's just a mouthpiece. Putin does not cite from Dugin, he cites from Ivan Ilyin, one of the people Dugin copy/pasted many of his ideas from. Dugin has no original ideas, he adds nothing new to other people's work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Dugin was the untouchable son of an elite KGB officer, who, in his teens, got into the habit of flexing his privilege by professing edgy positions that would land anyone else in the gulag (like “National Bolshevism”, a Nazi-Communist fusion), and eventually built a brand from this. He was 4chan before there was a 4chan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I've learned about this guy from the QAA podcast. Checked his wikipedia entry and confirmed: Hyperborean Theory

As best as I recall, he promotes some alternate-history bullshit to give Russians a more heroic role in the world.