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Moostache

(10,578 posts)
2. I don't give a single fuck what they want.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 01:28 PM
22 hrs ago

Walk like a Nazi...
Talk like a Nazi...
Hand salute like a Nazi...

Guess what?

That might just be a Nazi, and I am honoring their choice to identify as a Nazi by calling them exactly what they are, period.

unblock

(55,217 posts)
3. Because that word has a negative image.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 01:28 PM
22 hrs ago

Eventually, they might try to rehabilitate that word and adopt it, or at least celebrate it.

But they clearly admire hitler and his ilk. They'd use the term if it didn't have such a bad image.

bucolic_frolic

(50,794 posts)
4. The term has baggage so they used a different term.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 01:30 PM
22 hrs ago

It's not that they dislike the term, it's that their reputation might precede them and prevent attainment of their racist goals and plunder.

Ping Tung

(2,615 posts)
6. Because calling themselves "Patriots" , "Nationalists", and "Republicans" sells better to the all American Rubes.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 01:36 PM
22 hrs ago

AnotherMother4Peace

(4,755 posts)
8. A tax is to a tariff as a Nazi is to a: Republican? White Nationalist? Trumpster? All of the above? nt
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 02:03 PM
22 hrs ago
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