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To: Vermont Lt

And calling someone a Nazi has lost its “edge.”

That’s why they call everyone who disagrees with them a Fascists.

I was going to say in a few years they are going to have to find a new term but they have already stared calling everyone who disagrees with them a white nationalists.

They never stop with the name calling and actually discuss ideas and policies. That is because the last thing they want is people paying attention to their policies.


29 posted on 09/29/2020 12:35:04 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: desertfreedom765

I don’t give a crap about the left’s ideas or policies. I want them to just shut up and leave me alone. I lost interest in debating them years ago.


34 posted on 09/29/2020 12:46:02 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: desertfreedom765

>>And calling someone a Nazi has lost its “edge.” That’s why they call everyone who disagrees with them a Fascists.

Even the fascist insult became old even before WWII was over

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

Some have argued that the terms fascism and fascist have become hopelessly vague since the World War II period, and that today it is little more than a pejorative used by supporters of various political views to insult their opponents. The word fascist is sometimes used to denigrate people, institutions, or groups that would not describe themselves as ideologically fascist, and that may not fall within the formal definition of the word. As a political epithet, fascist has been used in an anti-authoritarian sense to emphasize the common ideology of governmental suppression of individual freedom. In this sense, the word fascist is intended to mean oppressive, intolerant, chauvinist, genocidal, dictatorial, racist, or aggressive. George Orwell wrote in 1944:

...the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else ... Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathisers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.[50]


40 posted on 09/29/2020 12:59:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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