It was literally the nazis who got centrists to “water-down” the word nazi.
They’re still working on it.
He’s just into war reenactment and also expressing that his heart went out to him (/s).
This kind of reminds me of this old skit https://youtu.be/PxS1H7oqrSI?si=hHKwrRw3q4E5QmXA
heart went out
That cold, shriveled, thorny accessory organ flew across the room at match speed and took someone’s eye out.
Intentional Stonetoss expression at the end?
I was thinking the same thing
I’m glad I’m not the only one! It’s so good!
There was no way we could tell he was a Nazi 😔
Normalizing fascism.
The sooner we accept we’ve reached that stage, the sooner we can do something about it.
I’m not holding my breath.
Start calling them Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, to start.
Honestly, the simple act of doing that has calmed a lot of the dissonance in my brain.
This is every fucking conversation I have with my right leaning friends at this point.
Cut them off.
Please yes, isolate yourself for the cult
The cult of… Anti-nazis?
Genius.
I mean really they are all fascists so really it would be some kind of anti-fascist movement.
🤔
Which is why the right has been vilifying the term antifa for the last 6-8 years. That way they can be primed to kill anti-fascists without having to admit to themselves that it means they’re fascist.
I’m a little worried about the distraction this is causing, distraction away from taking real action that can help. Like, felon and nazi are real and useful predictive attributes, but we kind of already knew some of that.
I feel like a better focus would be on taking action - donation, volunteerism, things your class valedictorian would do - to counter actual harmful or evil changes that are made in actual legislation. It sucks to have to prop up things that make America actually great ourselves because narrow minded politicians cut public funding. But to keep these things alive, we have to step up.
We already made our predictions known. Deep down we already know this isn’t convincing anybody new. The next step is taking action. Local non-profits want to hear from you. If it’s a cause that you think might be threatened, and you care about it, you might be able to help.
My Lemmy blocklist has literally tripled since yesterday lol.
If we keep going, we can make this an echo chamber yet!
Kinda weird that its only an echo chamber when it leaves out the right.
I don’t know where you got that opinion from. An echo chamber is an echo chamber and I think it’s a shame regardless of which flavour it is.
I’m here for open debate and freedom of expression, knowing that will mean having to see and read things I don’t like every now and again.
If other people want to block other users up to the point there’s no one else that has a different opinion to them, then they absolutely can do that but I thinks it’s just being an ostrich that sticks it’s head in the sand.
Enlightened centrist?
I consider my self a lefty, but I think it’s important to consider all points of view, especially when I disagree with them.
Aaaand blocked. Keep fellating Trump and Musk
Gentlemen gentlemen that’s just a actor on his way to a show.
When I saw the headlines about musk, frankly I figured it wasn’t worth even looking at. The Trump show had begun, everything was going to be kind of accurate but maybe overemphasized at times. I imagined it was a weird wave because of his ketamine problem and he was probably high as usual.
Then I saw the clip.
Same, I saw the still image and thought, “oh this is like where they grab a still of them waving then are like ‘look! Obama doing the Nazi salute!’”
Nope. Video was one of the most emphatic Nazi salutes I’ve ever seen. Twice!
what does this guy have against nazi’s?
He can nazi what the other guy’s saying.
ah bc he hates jews
Meanwhile bro on his way to a reenactment of The producers: Springtime for Hitler: The musical
I have changed nothing, and like a lightswitch every fucking post in almost every goddammit community seems to be about nazis and us politics to some new extreme degree.
Jesus fucking christ. Doomscrolling and endlessly worrying about it all is fucking toxic as shit. It is what it is. If people are so concerned and think it needs to change then get off the fucking phone and go DO something about it, or stop posting this kind of shit.
Gets so fucking old so fast.
I have changed nothing,
Yeah, it’s almost like this isn’t about you. It’s almost like it’s about a major world power openly embracing fascism and neo nazis.
Get off the internet if it bothers you.
Well, go do something about the Nazis and people will stop talking about them. If you want a feed to the world outside of your head, thay means dealing what what everyone else is talking about.
You can always just go jerk off in the shower and STFU about it
Found the 1930s era German that said “it is what it is”.
I’m sorry, we’re you in DC this week knocking down the white house doors and throwing molotovs?
Right. Shut up. You ain’t doing jack shit either.
Discussion raises awareness. Awareness leads to action.
At least I’m not some loser entirely unaware of what’s happening.
Sometimes I can’t understand why I’m so joyless and cynical, then I read some of the comments on Lemmy and feel a lot better about myself!
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That guy doesn’t look like Joe Biden
There’s always that one commenter, eh.
Sorry, but red shirt does have a point. People have been called a Nazi so many times because of small disagreements that now that we have musk make heil hitler signs, people actually wonder if he’s really a neo nazi or not.
People should keep the “nazi” label for the real assholes
Red shirt needs merely to turn around and see the brown shirt with the swastika. There isn’t a lot of grey area for interpretation of this comic, the artist is being very clear.
Voicing concerns as the republicans slowly claimed their way towards fascism is not the same as an imagined wolf.
The allegory would be watching a wolf circle the chickens but idiots dismissing it because then wolf hasn’t killed any chickens yet.
But that didn’t work as well for wolf sympathizer like you.
Mostly what I see are pedants who keep arguing that actually it’s a coyote circling the chickens, and that calling it a wolf de-legitimizes actually crying wolf, and that wolves had a very specific platform, and all the while the coyote is getting closer to the fucking henhouse.
This isn’t the same as The Boy Cried Wolf.
Unless you’re talking about a version of the story where there really were wolves every time he cried wolf and nobody believed him until the wolves were eating people.
Still not a perfect analogy but much closer.
Shut up Nazi
Exactly, thanks for the great example
Exactly. Nazi. Shut up.
by your definition words lose meaning when they’re overused.
if that’s the case then why has the “n” word never lost its strength as an oppressive word?
I think it’s because words don’t lose meaning. I think it’s because Nazis brainwash people into thinking labeling Nazis as Nazis is wrong and should be used to label real assholes. problem with that is that Nazis come in many forms.
So…I’ll keep calling Nazis, Nazis, and you keep disagreeing with me.
why has the “n” word never lost its strength as an oppressive word?
Tbf, it has to an extent, hence the “A” VS “hard R” distinction. The power was taken back as they say through repeated usage, some would call overuse, by the community who is allowed to say it. Other communities still aren’t allowed to say it sure, but it did contextually lose power through overuse.
try using it sometime, tell us if it’s lost some of its power.
