• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    This is why I don’t like trump being called a nazi, a nazi was a nickname for the german fascist based on the name of the political party NSDAP, specifically the N part, National with the ti part being pronounced the same as the zi part in nazi.

    Trump is an american fascist. When you call him a nazi it paints the picture of the ultra villified almost over the top hollywood nazi and it muddies the water and lets other fascist media pundits dismiss it over exaggeration.

    Now after being pedantic I prefer these lists tlto check if you live in a fascist state

    https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation-materials/characteristics-and-appeal-of-fascism/download/

    https://osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/PC-00466.pdf

    Spoiler alert: the US is under control of a fascist government.

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        3 hours ago

        No, as I explained it was a nickname like Krauts were the German soldiers.

        But I guess colloquially it became interchangeable with the use of fascism.

        Much like kleenex became a word to mean box of tissues even though it’s just a brand of it.

        So fascism = box of tissues, nazi = kleenex.

        Either way, like I said, it’s just being pedantic, fascist cunts are fascists cunts doesn’t matter if they are Nazis, Magas or Soviets.

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          There were fascists in Europe until the 1970s.

          The MAGA movement is fascist but it also has strong overtones of Nazi (blaming immigrants, camps, detention without due peocess).

          Yes, there is nationalism without any socialism, but saying they shouldn’t be called Nazis is diminishing the evil that is currently being done.