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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nazi has been so overused that people aren't listening to the word now that there is a valid thing to apply it too. They assume it's the same overblown rhetoric.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You're not wrong. I remember how Bush, McCain, Romney, Obama, Clinton, and others were called Nazis at different points. While it was never really taken seriously then (as it shouldn't have been), the term has become virtually meaningless. Where the term was reserved for the worst-of-the-worst, for years, it was invoked at the slightest disagreement. Now that there's a literal Nazi-adjacent person running and getting called out for it, it falls flat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

People were subjected to straight fascism from 2020 through 2022 and did nothing. They'll put up with anything