I don’t know enough about Fuentes. Mostly I know about it from people talking about people talking about him. I know he’s praised hitler (without an asterisk), so that’s bad. It’s hard for me to go off vibes about this kind of stuff, even when I don’t like the vibes. I used to do that when I was a lefty, and came to realize that it was a mistake and worked to try and avoid condemning someone without actually knowing what they think. I could say more but I don’t think it’s that useful.
Also, I dislike how contextless everything is. What was the topic? It is cut to make it sound like the ‘this’ that he’s funneling towards is Fuentes, or Fuentes’ ideology, but I have no idea. And the other ideas Asmon says are reasonable (and when to say what, or speaking one’s mind).
I thought the first few min of this was worse:
Particularly, I think it’s obvious why that kind of rhetoric would alarm people. Asmon saying that there’s no reasoning seems beside the point. It’s obviously alarming because fighting the govt is sometimes the right thing to do, especially if they’re rounding up people and shooting them. I have read a bit on US founding documents recently and the 2nd paragraph of the declaration of independence came to mind. Anyway looping back, one of the ways we know about when the right time to oppose a govt would be is when they start rounding up people and shooting them.
And then, once I rewatched the video in preparing for this prompt, I realized that I missed about 5 seconds of important context that showed what he was replying to. I couldn’t really tell, mostly because of the fire and weird lighting and just like everything. Anyway, then I went and found the actual source. Anyway, unless I’m missing even more context, whoever is filming that video (at the very least) should be in prison.
Oh and I deliberately shared it right after the part where he showed the context, partly because that’s how I experienced it (was alt tabbed distracted or something, or some yt ux issue, or just thinking about the initial presentation rather than doing due diligence, but either way I missed it), but also because that’s the context that the left wanted to show. And like I will see an Asmon video from time to time and dislike it or feel it’s problematic, but when I myself make this kind of mistake in the examples I choose, and left-aligned clips so commonly remove context, it’s really hard for me to agree with anything clipped this days without a deeper look.