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If you’ll go back to the start, you’ll remember the whole thread was about the stupidity of calling Netenyahu a nazi.

By your logic, anyone that attacks a group of people on any group characteristics is a nazi. Which is goddamn nonsense.

I get the appeal of calling people doing bad things nazis, but you sound like a child doing so. Worse, it makes it much more difficult for anyone to take our side seriously. (Same way that it is fucking stupid when trump called Harris a communist.)

My workday is done and you aren’t worth my free time.

Have a good weekend.

That’s the one protest, as the Reich was falling, reeling from the defeat in Stalingrad. And there were plans floated about simply shooting all the protesters.

Again, it’s just nonsense to declare Israel is now a nazi country. Fascism is very different than what Israel is.

Doing terrible things doesn’t make one a nazi, and claiming it does makes you look like a child.

Well, I appreciate you took the time I guess but this is an incredibly silly list of arguments. Just to pick a few of the more impressively nonsensical:

Centralized autocratic government? Yup, see DOGE.

What on Earth? Because you have a conspiracy about DOGE it means there’s now an autocratic government? Wtf?

Dictatorial leader? Given that trump openly admires dictators and that musk supports him, also yup.

“He admires dictators so is a dictator!” That’s mind bogglingly dumb. And last time we called trump a fascist, guess what, there were free and fair midterms and a Presidential election. When those don’t happen, we can talk. Otherwise this is about the stupidest argument I can imagine.

And the economic regimentation has been going on for a while now. (the rich become richer, the poor become poorer and have far less power)

Dafuq? Like, the same gap that’s been increasing across the world is now actually a sign trump is a fascist? That’s the “thanks Obama” of fascism declarations.

The suppression of opposition: See what’s happening in Texas by their team members of the republican party, where they’re trying to oust the Democratic party from major political roles in committees and such.

They won’t have us in committees in Texas, clearly the Democratic party is now suppressed and non viable.

I’d say, it’s valid to call these people fascist.

That’s an incredibly facile position.

I mean, I’d quibble with parts of the definitions but it seems wild that folks are using that definition and then pretending it applies to trump or Netenyahu.

A fascist is someone who believes in a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.

Lets see, nation over individual? Yup, very much so

Centralized autocratic government? Yup, see DOGE.

What on Earth? Because you have a conspiracy about DOGE it means there’s now an autocratic government? Wtf?

Dictatorial leader? Given that trump openly admires dictators and that musk supports him, also yup.

“He admires dictators so is a dictator!” That’s mind bogglingly dumb. And last time we called trump a fascist, guess what, there were free and fair midterms and a Presidential election. When those don’t happen, we can talk. Otherwise this is about the stupidest argument I can imagine.

And the economic regimentation has been going on for a while now. (the rich become richer, the poor become poorer and have far less power)

Dafuq? Like, the same gap that’s been increasing across the world is now actually a sign trump is a fascist? That’s the “thanks Obama” of fascism declarations.

The suppression of opposition: See what’s happening in Texas by their team members of the republican party, where they’re trying to oust the Democratic party from major political roles in committees and such.

They won’t have us in committees in Texas, clearly the Democratic party is now suppressed and non viable.

I’d say, it’s valid to call these people fascist.

That’s an incredibly facile position.

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That wasn’t what I asked.

Again, could you see these protests actually happening at all in Nazi Germany?

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/8/israeli-protesters-bring-tel-aviv-to-a-halt-demand-deal-to-free-captives

https://www.voanews.com/a/stop-the-war-say-israelis-demanding-return-of-gaza-hostages-/7849068.html

Do you really believe protests like these would have been possible in Nazi Germany? Like the Gestapo would’ve just been “yeah, that’s fine.”

Is this silliness coming from tik tok or are we really this ignorant nowadays?

I didn’t but uhhh, you’re welcome. Have a good day.

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Nazis were also famously fascist, had no elections, had a strong security system to squash internal dissent and brooked no protest, none of which apply to Israel.

I get the appeal of labelling things you oppose as nazis but you can’t just pick and choose what aspects fit and then apply the term nazi, it just makes us look dumb.

When someone gets banned from a site and complains that site is run by nazis, if we’re using your standard of picking and choosing then that person is as correct as you are as the site is allowing no dissent and removing those who do. But in reality (I pray) we both look at that person and think less of their complaint because of the silliness of their comparison.

Nazis were also famously fascist, had no elections, had a strong security system to squash internal dissent and brooked no protest, none of which apply to Israel.

I get the appeal of labelling things you oppose as nazis but you can’t just pick and choose what aspects fit and then apply the term nazi, it just makes us look dumb.

When someone gets banned from a site and complains that site is run by nazis, if we’re using your standard of picking and choosing then that person is as correct as you are as the site is allowing no dissent and removing those who do. But in reality (I pray) we both look at that person and think less of their complaint because of the silliness of their comparison.

Heathen!!!

Nazis were also famously fascist, had no elections, had a strong security system to squash internal dissent and brooked no protest, none of which apply to Israel.

I get the appeal of labelling things you oppose as nazis but you can’t just pick and choose what aspects fit and then apply the term nazi, it just makes us look dumb.

When someone gets banned from a site and complains that site is run by nazis, if we’re using your standard of picking and choosing then that person is as correct as you are as the site is allowing no dissent and removing those who do. But in reality (I pray) we both look at that person and think less of their complaint because of the silliness of their comparison.

Same thing here. Use words that are accurate, genocidal would be a fair one if you believe it but nazi, it just makes you look fucking silly.

Jesus lord, this is a really really inaccurate take. There was only one election, it was the one in which Hitler took power. There were no more after.

One of the hallmarks of fascism is that it is anti-Democratic.