SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
I don’t call them Nazis because I dislike them, I dislike them because they’re Nazis.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
I don’t call them Nazis because I dislike them, I dislike them because they’re Nazis.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No they are fascists, Nazi was the shorthand for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), the first 4 letters.
Fascism gets its name from Italy, Mussolini’s Fascist Party, but it is the name for the political ideology as a whole, there is no Nazism and Americans being called Nazis is kinda weird, imagine if the scenario was flipped and you called german fascists MAGAs.
Thanks for coming to my stickler talk.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Nazi is short for Nationalsozialist though. The party wasn’t called Nazi, the members were.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
It was and is literally called the Nazi Party en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
BussyCat@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What do you call people who wear red and black swastikas and say heil Hitler while doing a salute typical of the Nazi party?
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 20 seconds ago
assholes.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 38 minutes ago
Lazy and derivative
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Romans?
Humana@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I don’t live in America, and many people here actually do use MAGA or Trumpism to describe the local right wing people and parties because they are largely just copying America…
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
If the situation were flipped, and Hitler was rising to power ~80 years after we had a massive war to take out MAGA fascists, then yeah I think people would refer to them as “MAGA”, at least at first.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Nazi doesn’t mean national socialist, as I said it’s literally just the first 4 letters, a shorthand a nickname, American version for Republicans would be Repu/Repus.
Lots of people I have seen that think it’s Nazi because the Sozialistische has the Zi, it’s nonsense, Nazional is how germans pronounce National, hence it’s shortened to Nazi.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
IMO it’s more offensive to call MAGAs a Nazi. And I’m certainly looking for maximum effect. I couldn’t care less about the etymology of Nazi.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Ridiculously pedantic. Come on.
causepix@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
How about nationalist?
aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I call them Repubs at this point because they don’t want to say things like “Democratic politicians” opting instead for “Democrat politicians” because they’re worried democratic sounds too good.
I think republican sounds too good. They don’t want a republic, they want a tyrant.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s semantics. The German and American fascists all pull from the same ideological and rhetorical playbook.
Veneration of the national security state. Zealous religious orthodoxy. Obsession with loyalty oaths and ethnicity sorting. Reflexive xenophobia. Institutionalized quackery.
It’s all the same shit. Same as Apartheid Africa. Same as Kuomanting China. Same as Pinochet’s Chile and Milei’s Argentina.