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Fascism (infosec.pub)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Photo: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Fascist Italy (left), and Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany (right), were fascist leaders

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

"Fascist" is more than a mean name that people call Trumpists and billionaire oligarchs. It has an actual meaning despite their (the Trumpists) efforts to cheapen it by calling everyone they don't like a fascist and suggesting that those who correctly label them fascists (the left) are doing the same.

EDIT: calm down, you misread what I wrote.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump and his technofascist billionaires are indeed fucking fascist. It’s not diluting the word to call it what it is.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Relax. They are obviously fascists. It is them that had been calling everyone and everything they don't like fascists and claiming that the left is doing it to try to dilute the meaning of the word.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your comment can be read in the reverse, thanks for clarifying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

NP

I went back and cleared it up because two people took it the opposite way to how I meant it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is exactly why I've been posting. Words have been losing meaning and we need reminders that they have clear definitions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Good project.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While I get the last decade or so has seen a lot of words used in hyperbolic ways that cheapens their meaning; but are you suggesting that Trump and Musk are not Fascist or at the very least desire to be?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. They are clearly fascists. Trump and the Trumpers have been calling everyone and everything they don't like fascists to dilute the meaning of the word.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Mussolini looks like the default character in a mid af military shooter game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Dictators tend to be deeply deeply weird people who often dress and groom themselves in odd eccentric ways.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that a bat shaped mustache?
I never paid any attention to it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh... you're going to so much hell.

[–] EmoDuck 4 points 1 week ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, is this a commentary on the German elections today?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. I'm an idiot American with no knowledge of international politics.

I just have a list of words I've been posting in alphabetic order so that potentially others will share the similar definitions as I do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

So let me enlighten you: We had an election yesterday and the second largest party (AfD) is, well, let's say it fits your post. Musk is a great supporter of them and had a livestream on their convention. In our multi party system it's still possible to have a government without them but it's increasingly difficult

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Wow, Mussolini was even shorter than Hitler.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Also current Jew hating fascists