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[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh FFS. Please stop abusing the word "Nazi" for every tiny transgression against 2025-era US progressive biases. Why do Americans do this - do you not learn anything at school? Words have meanings. Whatever the reason, to compare someone who isn't "fighting for a more just and equal society" to a "Nazi" just makes you look like a know-nothing ignoramus. It discredits whatever you have to say.

Response to the predictable justifications. Are you all aware that Putin calls democratic Ukraine "Nazi" for exactly the reasons you're all calling Trump one - namely, that it's a big powerful word? Yes, I'm aware of Trump's provocations and impulses. In other times Trump would probably have been more Mussolini than Berlusconi (i.e. a fascist). But "Nazi" is on a whole other level: it implies an apocalyptic, totalitarian, genocidal subversion of what most people consider civilization. This was actually a thing and it bears almost no connection to Trump's brand of chaotic reactionary populism. If you know anything about history then you should know this already. To insinuate that Trumpism is Nazism is insulting to intelligence.

[-] leraje 15 points 2 days ago

Are you trying to be wrong on every thread about this you post in? To follow up on @EldritchFeminity point about the LGBT community, one of the other groups first targeted by the Nazi's were the disabled. Trump is on record as stating (as per his nephew) that disabled people should 'just die' and has openly mocked disabled people. His views are so close to 1930s/40s era Nazism as to make no real difference.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Are you trying to be wrong on every thread about this you post in?

So you're keeping tabs on me, I see. Maybe you're drawing up a list of my transgressions?

[-] leraje 12 points 2 days ago

Do be an adult. Lemmy isn't that big that you don't recognise usernames.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yes and I recognize yours. But the fact that I thought you were "wrong" yesterday too is completely uninteresting to everyone else here.

[-] leraje 8 points 2 days ago

That's why I replied directly to you. Are you new to how public, threaded conversations work?

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