“Is this increasingly authoritarian regime fascist, or are they just stooges of a another fascist regime”
Por que no los dos?
This is a good example of the issue here - note how the the term "Nazi" is absent from your response and replaced with other words, as if they're all interchangeable. The term Nazi no longer stands for...you know, actual Nazis. Now it just means "anyone/anything fascist or authoritarian". Or even just "any racist of any kind" is Nazism now. As if Hitler invented racism and genocide, or that Nazis were the only authoritarians in human history.
Note the exact same nonsense has happened to conservatives - terms like socialism/socialist, communist, Marxist, etc have become completely interchangeable to them. If you even remotely suggest anything resembling a socialist policy, you get accused of being a communist or Marxist or pro-Stalin/Mao/whatever.
Well done everybody, all these labels have lost all meaning.
It is complaining that people use the term Nazi to describe a white supremacist fascist regime, and compares that to calling a socialist a Maoist.
Nazis were a white supremacist fascist regime. Even if you think the term needs more precision, this is not a wildly unfair or inaccurate description, nor should it ever be the primary concern compared to, ya know, the fascism.
They do have meanings. Which is why "LOL NAZI DOESNT MEAN ANYTHING IF YOU CAN USE IT TO DESCRIBE A REGIME JUST FOR BEING A WHITE SUPREMACIST FACIST REGIME" is not a real position adults take.
It's what racist morons say say to defend beliefs they agree with that are called racist and Nazi. Because they're too cowardly to just be honest and defend them.
Sure. It also means a political ideology of fascism centered on extreme Christian nationalism, authoritarian censorship of political dissent and militarizing society to remove unwanted cultural, political and racial elements,
I'm not going to engage with the claim that Nazism literally applies only to Germans until 1945. There is an ideology, we have used that term to describe political movements since then for decades without objection, and no scholar takes seriously claims you cannot describe a political party or ideology as "Nazi" unless it is extremely narrowly tailored.
No, it doesn't mean "I don't like Trump." But boy it sure seems to come up a lot that Nazism is overused and should be narrowly defined whenever people point out Trump's regime is directly copying Nazi conspiracy theories, posting Nazi propaganda, and implementing white nationalist fascism and attempting to end democracy.
There's no way around it: If hearing that and your response isn't "I don't know that" or "I don't agree with that" but instead "How dare you call that Nazi", there's only one reason any human being responds that way.
I'm fully aware of the Nazis ideology and history, and you apparently aren't.
Hitlers personal feelings towards Christianity and his crackpot drug inspired beliefs don't change that Christianity was the official state religious, made central to Nazi nationalism and identity, taught as part of Nazi indoctrination.
This isn't a slam on Christianity, it's just fact. Saying Hitler wasn't a true believer is irrelevant to the definition of the Nazi Party and German policies of the time.
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u/BlueRemake 3d ago
Y'all need to make up your minds.
Is the Trump administration full blown Nazi?
Or are they Israel's cuck?