• Jin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I hear often Nazi this Nazi that? I think it has lost meaning. Can you explain what Nazi is? Vs Nazi from like WW2?

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
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      18 hours ago

      I think it has lost meaning.

      It has. Completely. Basically what it means today is “people who disagree with me” and should be regarded as such. Unfortunately the actual nazis will fly under the radar now.

    • dudinax@programming.dev
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      1 day ago

      Some people wouldn’t know a Nazi if he was sending people to camps without trial, trying to outlaw the political opposition, fomenting a cult of personality, launching coups, oppressing the most vulnerable people, ratcheting up racist attacks, and threatening to attack Denmark.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      As a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.

      Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.

      His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.

      • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Note how Jin, the Nazi Defender (not a Nazi themselves, they just defend people who are justifiably called Nazis) won’t respond to your answer.

        One feature from Reddit I liked was the ability to tag people. Or maybe that was the reddit enhancement suite. But Jin would’ve earned himself a big red “Nazi Defender” tag.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      If you perform a Nazi salute, you’re a Nazi.

      Musk performed TWO Nazi salutes on national television during a presidential inauguration.

      Musk owns X.

      Anymore questions? Do I need to illustrate with crayons?

      • Jin@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Some would say a Roman salute 🫡 So anything else substantial? That can’t be interpreted as something else?

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          1 day ago

          Italian here, Roman actually.

          The Roman salute has not origin in ancient history.

          It was formalized by Gabriele D’Annunzio, a sick fascist poet and writer, as a salute for his proto-fascist troops with which he occupied Fiume in modern-day Croatia, having been inspired this painting.

          So yea, the roman salute is a fascist salute, invented by a fascist, for a fascist occurrence and to call it roman is a disservice to Rome and history in general.

    • gradual@lemmings.world
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      1 day ago

      The word ‘nazi’ has 100% lost its meaning.

      Might as well just be saying “I don’t like this person or group of people because they disagree with me.”