Wait, Putin is the "godfather of the western radical right"? You can't be serious Owen.https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/807612246763470848 …
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
I mean they're called "neonazis". This implies there was a previous iteration of nazi that preceded Putin by a few decades.
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
Sorry, are UKIP, Trump, the Northern League or the French NF self-described neo-Nazis? And did I claim Putin created them?
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Replying to @OwenJones84
I wasn't sure we let fascists self-describe. Godfather implies Putin is the primary patron or inspiration this is absurd.
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @OwenJones84
They are friendly b/c they share similar goals. Not "the Godfather"; fascists in EU would exist anyway
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
I know, and I'm not pretending otherwise? But UKIP, the NF, Trump, the NL, all inspired by - and some helped by.
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Replying to @OwenJones84 @adamjohnsonNYC
The likes of UKIP aren't neo-Nazis, by the way. They are authoritarian xenophobic populists. Hitler isn't their inspiration.
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Replying to @OwenJones84
you brought up UKIP, I was simply responding to your label of "radical right" which I assume meant the radical end of spectrum
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this notion that putin is somehow responsible for this phenomenon a) attributes way too much power to him and
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