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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 111 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I was taught when I was young that you don't call something that isn't really genocide genocide, someone that isn't a nazi a nazi, etc. because it dilutes the meaning of the word. I do think that Israel is committing a genocide, and I do think that Musk is a neo-nazi; I'm not diluting these terms to say this.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He backs the neo-nazi party of Germany and does the Hitler salute as well as Hitler himself. He's 100% a neo-nazi.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Are you... disagreeing with me? Or are you reaffirming what I'm saying? I am not sure I understand the point of this comment.

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And calling critisim of israel anti-semetic dilutes the meaning of that word.

[–] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Which, funny enough, is exactly what Nazis want.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 89 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ah, the before times.

Now they're the guys with their arms in the air. pretty hard to miss.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No no, you see they are being "ironic"! Don't you understand their alpha brained comedy? /s

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nazis, plural. Where there's one Nazi, there's guaranteed multiple more hiding nearby.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like roaches, except more skeevy.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Sane weird breeding fetish though

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

At this point, they may not even be hiding

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm gonna channel John brown with every nazi I see

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've seen people unironically insist John Brown was a Nazi. I believe "posting John Brown memes" was one of the arguments for banning a swath of leftist subs on Reddit, back in '16.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A man who gave his life to free slaves is no nazi. The fact that it's controversial to say slaves should be free is what made me radicalized

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A man who gave his life to free slaves is no nazi.

Ah, but he condoned violence. And every liberal knows that resisting the benevolent enslavement of the superior white race is just as bad as firing artillery rounds at a federal base off the coast of South Carolina.

The fact that it’s controversial to say slaves should be free is what made me radicalized

You're allowed to say slaves should be free. Everyone has the right to free speech, after all.

You're just not allowed to do anything to free the slaves. Or condone those that do. Or mention the names of those that condone those that do. Or suggest in any way that violence is an appropriate response to a problem.

Unless, we're talking about violence aimed at a National Enemy, of course. Then you're an evil double agent of a foreign government if you don't clap enthusiastically at our next Great Patriotic War abroad.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

All hail exportation of explosive freedom

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One day Nazis are going to find out again that people love killing Nazis more than Nazis love killing their undesirables.

[–] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

You gotta use all caps to really show how much we LOVE killing Nazis.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I really want to remember the name of a program/skit from Germany, where a man complains about nazi soldiers putting up a nazi poster outside his house's wall, then a Gestapo officer comes along, "Why are you calling them nazis? Just because you disagree doesn't mean they're nazis""

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Fuck Nazis! Anyone who waves a flag with a Swastika (not the Gammadion Cross), uses Aryan symbols and salutes like a fucking Nazi is a fucking Nazi. I'm just waiting for the MAGA asswipes to force the US military to goose step during parades with Jack Boots.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I do think it's important to try to respectfully explain why what somebody is saying is an issue but only when you have the energy.

I know from some people I've spoken with that they have no idea about the consequences of some things they (used to) agree with. If I had just called them Nazis they would have just felt disrespected and probably not thought about why people might call them that.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is some merit to this point. People are emotional creatures first, and sometimes exclusively. It often doesn't matter if you're right if the other people feels bad about it.

This is a really immature, unsophisticated, way to engage with the world, but it's the reality for a lot of people. Honestly, it happens to all of us sometimes. Some people seem to rarely rise above the gutfeel level, though.

It does kind of suck that we have to cater to the most simplistic ways of engaging with the world, because if we don't they'll form a far right party and do some genoide.

[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

but only when you have the energy.

Thank you for this, because I don't have more than to post fuck Nazis

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the year 2035 and Johnny returns home from school....

Johnny: Hi mom!

Mom: Get back here and greet your one and only mother properly!

Johnny: fuck nazis mom!

Mom: fuck nazis my handsome boy!

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[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

Good to sort any pedantic or bad faith arguments out now. Pedantry didn't win the day to stave off WWII and that shit caught on quick. Let's get ahead of that this time.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

I strongly suggest following him on Mastodon.

Replies to his posts are among the most useful tools you can have to get a good blocklist going.

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