And they still didn't get it.

Well, not like it changed from before ww2. Well, maybe it did for the next 2 weeks.

Naziism is just an ideology that appeals to some common instincts, which becomes an issue when enough of them are in precarity that they warm up to making the ideas policy.

It doesn't make for a very good state. Incompetence and nepotism rises to the top. Data driven science is tossed aside for ideology-driven rhetoric. Officials govern on vibes resulting in famine, plague and war. Also the country turns into the very kind of shithole it accuses other nations of being.

Eventually, you have bombers from rival countries blocking the the sun over the capitol. International tribunals exercise judgement and enforce their law, since the nazis failed to provide rule of law to their own. Children pick up pieces of the trainwreck.

And we learn (or fail to learn) once again why we don't let the fascist autocrats take over, even when they are very, very rich.

We in the US have a choice: clean up the mess early, or let China clean it up for us. And China will make us jolly sorry if we make them clean it up. We'll be their buggery bitch for a century or two at least.

It is an unpopular opinion because many of them display swastikas and other Nazi symbols, praise Hitler, uphold the same supremacist beliefs, and have way too much in common with the Nazis. So calling them Nazis is accurate. It's not really bending the definition.

If it quacks like a duck...

Seems like your discomfort is showing. Might want to tuck that back in.

We have people in power who explicitly want to exterminate minorities (see those leaked text messages) and we have a sizeable population willing to trust and empower those people. It's not bending the definition to call them Nazis.

They didn't build Auschwitz the day after Hitler got appointed chancellor. They built up to it. I don't know how you can look at a government that's literally building and populating concentration camps with people who haven't broken the law and clutch pearls about calling them Nazis until they scale up sufficiently. The best thing you can honestly call them is proto-nazis.

“They’re not Nazis unless they’re from the Nazi regime of Germany. Otherwise they’re just sparkling Fascists.” -you.

But then, by your own logic, we can’t call them Fascists either, since that term was made to describe Italian Authoritarianism.

Good Samaritan

Lesbian

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Plenty of words we now use today started out referring to people in a specific time and place.

Further, what's the use of remembering the horrors of the Nazis if we don't recognize the early warning signs of those same horrors today? The "National Socialist German Workers' Party" was around for over a decade before they started the holocaust. It seems like too little too late to wait until the genocide begins to start drawing parallels.

Wile I respect your point of view here, you seem to be missing the fact that Nazis didn't just go away at the end of WWII. Many former Nazis ended up in powerful business and political positions post-wwii, and the ideas maintained popularity with the people the were popular with. This transitioned into neo-nazi-ism, white power skinheads, Aryan Nation, Aryan, brotherhood, modern German AFD part, the 3rd wave of the KKK, countless militia movements, and on and on and on. These all have a direct lineage with the actual Nazis from WWII. When we call these people Nazis, it's not because we're being hyperbolic about their beliefs, it's because they are Nazis.

In theory you are not wrong but you ignore that language evolves, in modern times it means someone agrees or at least sympathizes with NSDAP ideology/ideas and no "they don't hate Jews so they are different" is not an excuse Nazis back in the days only chose Jews because they were a minority and could be blamed for everything.

1. Many of these hate groups outright use nazi iconography and self identify as nazis and talk about how much they love hitler.
2. I honestly don't care if the (increasingly passed on due to age) generation that directly experienced WW2 and the events leading up to it are grumpy that the term "nazi" is being used again. I very much DO care about the current world that is dealing with a global resurgence of nazis/"nazis". History should be learned from and if your only takeaway from WW2 was "German parties that identify as Socialists are bad" then you missed the point.

Just to expand on the last bit some more: World War 2 was (approximately) the early 1940s. I forget what the official dates are but it wasn't a bubble and there was lead up and ramp down afterwards.

1940 was 85 years ago. So for someone to be a child with meaningful memories of the time puts them closer to 95 right now. For someone to have actively fought (late teens), that gets to 100. This is WHY basically any reputable WW2 historian will have some variation of "I was fortunate enough to talk to so and so before they passed" because... the odds are very "good" they did.

Which contributes a lot towards why we see such a resurgence. All the olds who actually experienced it are dead and not around to say "the fuck is wrong with you".

The US is nothing like Nazi Germany, the Nazi concentration camps had trains.

Anyone else noticed a rise in right wing/troll accounts on Lemmy recently?

You: "Calling people klansmen just because you don't like their beliefs or opinions belittles what blacks went through. Racist? Sure, but don't change history"

Guy in a Klan hood beside you: "yeah what he said"

"I do have a Nazi streak"

• Paul Ingrassia

Did all "nazis" actively do crimes against humanity? Whats the bar they have to hit to be a nazi? Put on a uniform? shoot a roma? say non-aryans are sub human? You want to draw a bright line between national socialists and racists, I'm not going to stop you, but I think nazi is just short hand for bootlicking people who enable the dehumanizing of others at this point in time.

What word would you prefer?

Well, you're a fucking idiot.

Nazi was a derogatory term used against the national socialist party but was eventually embraced in defiance. Let's not change history and make nazi some kind of honored title.

I suppose you believe the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea is democratic too.

Go home, grammar Nazi, your ignorance of how linguistic usage determines meaning is showing

I agree with all the other comments in this thread. And I would also add that Republicans modus operandi is closer to to German nazis than Italian fascists.

Fascists used violence, an open coup and support from the existing monarchy and government to gain control. Nazis tried the same thing first and failed miserably so next they ran elections and slowly subverted parliamentary democracy to gain the same control. Once they had enough support in parliament they ramped up the violence of the SA militias (equivalent to ICE) to gain a majority and be uncontested.