• BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It’s dumb to call Trump a nazi and the populist wing of the Republican party nazis.

    It’s not even clever at this point, maybe it was edgy and transgressive like 7 years ago.

    The reason it’s dumb is that you are wasting all of your powerful language and you will have no more if things get worse. Boy who cried wolf. Just like people did to racist which used to carry great power and now is basically meaningless as a powerful descriptor.

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      2 hours ago

      Gee. Which side has all the people marching with nazi flags?

      Which side never kicks them out when they do?

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      5 hours ago

      Now now. Many MAGA are in fact documented nazis, and Trump’s record is bad but it quite as explicit as that. If you’re afraid of the term being bandied about, I recommend therapy.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s not even clever at this point, maybe it was edgy and transgressive like 7 years ago.

      Are you really this childish that you genuinely think the only reason people might suggest Trump is a fascist is because it was “edgy and transgressive”? Not the fascist rhetoric, increasingly fascist policy and the various fascists he’s willing to work with and support?

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        5 hours ago

        Nazism is a very small subset of fascism, they are not equivalent. Nazi also carries VERY heavy baggage which is inapplicable to Trump. Use the right terms.

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          2 hours ago

          Nazism is a very small subset of fascism, they are not equivalent. Nazi also carries VERY heavy baggage which is inapplicable to Trump. Use the right terms.

          Can’t tell if you’re defending trump or gatekeeping nazism.

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          5 hours ago

          Hey guys, look at this dipshit, drawing irrelevant distinctions and pointlessly trying to police other peoples language because they think the only reason others would use those terms is because they’re “edgy and transgressive”.

          Tell me, where on the fascism to nazism meter is mass deportations, muslim bans, endorsing far right militias, supporting running over protestors, palling around with white supremacists, and seeking to eradicate trans people from public life? Are we at .49? or is it more like .76? My readings seems to be off. Just so I know I’m not using the incorrect terms so some moron from .world doesn’t get mad and try to incessantly police terms on the internet.