• magic_lobster_party
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    372 years ago

    He’s probably one of those people who think the nazis were socialists because nazi is short for “national socialist”.

    • varoth
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      222 years ago

      Probably, despite the fact that Hitler himself said they weren’t socialists.

    • athos77
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      112 years ago

      Or who conveniently forget about the Southern Strategy and the great party switch. Massive, massive mental gymnastics to put themselves on the ‘right’ side of history every time

    • TheEntity
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      12 years ago

      While I agree with both of you, these two points kinda contradict each other.

      • exohuman
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        132 years ago

        Just like North Korea is called DPRK: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The fascist use whatever words are in fashion to name themselves.

      • magic_lobster_party
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        12 years ago

        Many do think antifa is just a different word for socialist, so it’s not necessarily a contradiction.

        • @irmoz@reddthat.com
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          -32 years ago

          It is a contradiction, though.

          “Antifa are ANTI fascist - it’s in the name!!”

          “The Nazis weren’t socialist - you could name yourself whatever you want!!”

          • @Domriso@lemmy.world
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            172 years ago

            Except Antifa isn’t a formal organization, it’s a descriptor for an ideology. An organization can call itself anything, even if it isn’t a proper descriptor, but an ideology is by necessity defined by its name.