• Trimatrix@lemmy.world
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    We need a new name for them besides Nazis. People start calling them Nazis and then you got to put up with bad faith arguments with people claiming they aren’t as bad as Nazis while completely missing the point.

    Can’t demean them either by calling them ass hats or bastards…… How about confederates? All of em ain’t nothing but confederates, going against Found Father values.

    How about that? You defend the confederates and people begin thinking your nothing but backwater country folk who still believe in slavery

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Nazis are a subset of fascists, which itself is a subset of reactionary ideology.

      A reactionary is a person who wants to reverse political changes and seeks to restore society to a state believed to have existed before.

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      I would argue a more accurate description for the US far right would be proto-fascists. Primarily because they haven’t fully rejected open elections and they are still somewhat constrained by US judicial institutions.

      Although I expect this will change in the next 24 months.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      They’re not Nazis, but they ARE fascists.

      Nazis were big into public works and pretending to be socialist, both of which are anathema to the American Fascist Party.

      All Nazis are fascists, but not all fascists are Nazis.