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minus-squareNo_Eponymlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·20 hours ago Trump and MAGA politics Maybe the language we use to describe them is itself normalising and pacifying. Like calling a Nazi salute a “hand gesture.” I would suggest “a criminal dictator and fascist politics” as a substitute in your sentence to provoke an acceptable, proportionate reaction.
minus-squareTessellecta@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 hours agoHe is not quite a dictator yet. Let’s call him an aspiring dictator, to make it clear that action can still prevent it from getting that bad.
Maybe the language we use to describe them is itself normalising and pacifying. Like calling a Nazi salute a “hand gesture.”
I would suggest “a criminal dictator and fascist politics” as a substitute in your sentence to provoke an acceptable, proportionate reaction.
He is not quite a dictator yet. Let’s call him an aspiring dictator, to make it clear that action can still prevent it from getting that bad.
I like it.