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Fascism (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 hours ago by CubitOom@infosec.pub to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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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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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 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.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours 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?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours 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.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

Phew! We can all relax! What you omit to mention is that it's mainly the left and progressives who have cheapened the definition of this word. For almost a century now, as indicated by the famous Orwell quote from the ~~1930s~~1940s.

And now that that's done, they've set about cheapening the word "Nazi" so that soon it will be almost meaningless too.

PS: the Orwell quote: "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable'". Written in 1946.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

Also current Jew hating fascists