• SomeAmateur
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    I agree it used to mean actual, armband wearing, genocide creating, goose stepping evil people that started WWII.

    Yes today there are still people who somehow support that shit with the books, flags, tats and armbands to prove it. There is a term for it. Neo Nazi. If you want Nazis to punch these are it, though it might not make them any less of one.

    Now by that standard is Trump a Nazi? No. But some throw the term around to essentially mean group=bad. The left crazies do it with nazi, the right crazies do it with communism. Over time it loses meaning to the point where nobody takes it seriously. Boy who cried wolf. The way to stop that is to only use the term on the real people, not the kinda sorta if you squint your eyes it’s similar in a way people. Not to say they they aren’t assholes or don’t deserve to be called out by other terms…

    Anyway yes people hate the real deal Nazis, but probably not every group someone on twitter slaps that label on to. End rant.

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      1 year ago

      Trump may not be a Nazi or a Neo-Nazi, as those are extremely specific subsets of Fascism. Trump is an authoritarian fascist. His TV series proved that well before his second or third presidential campaign.

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        1 year ago

        I agree. But he’s also not “actual Hitler” as many have said over the years. It’s different levels of asshole and I wish people had more nuance is my point

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          Idk, he wanted to order the military to go in with weapons blazing at blm protesters. Defended those who marched and chanted in Charlottesville that “Jews! Will not! Replace us!”

          He may not have the name hitler, but he seems to love that stuff. Oh yeah and covered up (has something to do with?) Kashoggi being quartered, alive when he himself couldn’t listen to the tapes of the sounds of agony. What exactly would earn him “Nazi” status, in your view?

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      1 year ago

      It’s almost as if there’sa term for right wing authoritarianism/authoritarianism, isn’t it?