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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nazi doesn’t mean national socialist

    Ridiculously pedantic. Come on.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, so was my first comment, not sure what you expected 😃

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    • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You are confusing National Socialism with Leftist-Nationalism

      The reason Hitler added Social to their party name was because it was political suicide not to, not because they where socialists.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was quoting the person above me. Read the chain again, I’m well aware of what Nazi means.

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So, tyrannist? Hmm that’s not catchy. Maybe just autocrat but that doesn’t contain the root of the word tyrannus. Best I got for ya.

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      • bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tyranids?🤷‍♂️

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      • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nah I’ll stick with repubs

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  • causepix@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How about nationalist?

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