• Damage@feddit.it
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    8 hours ago

    He may be an asshole, but calling everyone you don’t like a fascist is just going to make the word useless

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      3 hours ago

      the word’s not useless, it’s just that its meaning has evolved to encompass pretty much all authoritarianism, rather than just a specific subset of it.

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      3 hours ago

      He may be a fascist, but calling everyone you don’t like an asshole is just going to make the word useless

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      7 hours ago

      He’s just a misguided social democrat. Unfortunately social democracy in Scandinavia got caught in the ratchet mechanism and is now straying further from the light every year, wondering why their former voters feel betrayed.

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        2 hours ago

        Misguided? Why are liberals always treated with kid gloves? Calling this guy a fascist does not seem out of bounds at all based on his policies.