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Fascism (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by CubitOom@infosec.pub to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Photo: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Fascist Italy (left), and Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany (right), were fascist leaders

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"Fascist" is more than a mean name that people call Trumpists and billionaire oligarchs. It has an actual meaning despite their (the Trumpists) efforts to cheapen it by calling everyone they don't like a fascist and suggesting that those who correctly label them fascists (the left) are doing the same.

EDIT: calm down, you misread what I wrote.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump and his technofascist billionaires are indeed fucking fascist. It’s not diluting the word to call it what it is.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Relax. They are obviously fascists. It is them that had been calling everyone and everything they don't like fascists and claiming that the left is doing it to try to dilute the meaning of the word.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your comment can be read in the reverse, thanks for clarifying.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I went back and cleared it up because two people took it the opposite way to how I meant it.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is exactly why I've been posting. Words have been losing meaning and we need reminders that they have clear definitions.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Good project.

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I get the last decade or so has seen a lot of words used in hyperbolic ways that cheapens their meaning; but are you suggesting that Trump and Musk are not Fascist or at the very least desire to be?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. They are clearly fascists. Trump and the Trumpers have been calling everyone and everything they don't like fascists to dilute the meaning of the word.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mussolini looks like the default character in a mid af military shooter game.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Dictators tend to be deeply deeply weird people who often dress and groom themselves in odd eccentric ways.

[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that a bat shaped mustache?
I never paid any attention to it.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh... you're going to so much hell.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, is this a commentary on the German elections today?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. I'm an idiot American with no knowledge of international politics.

I just have a list of words I've been posting in alphabetic order so that potentially others will share the similar definitions as I do.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

So let me enlighten you: We had an election yesterday and the second largest party (AfD) is, well, let's say it fits your post. Musk is a great supporter of them and had a livestream on their convention. In our multi party system it's still possible to have a government without them but it's increasingly difficult

[–] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, Mussolini was even shorter than Hitler.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io -1 points 1 year ago

Also current Jew hating fascists