• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Nazi platform.

    Make sure to stop clicking on Nazi links when people post them. No matter how bad you want to see someone “prank” someone or cry about their perceived persecution.

    We need to stop making a Nazi platform important enough that it hurts democratic politicians when they lose access because of the Nazi in charge of said platform.

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      and if you absolutely must see something on twitter, use xcancel instead.

      its a frontend for the same content, that doesn’t add views or ad revenue to twitter.

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      I hear often Nazi this Nazi that? I think it has lost meaning. Can you explain what Nazi is? Vs Nazi from like WW2?

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        Some people wouldn’t know a Nazi if he was sending people to camps without trial, trying to outlaw the political opposition, fomenting a cult of personality, launching coups, oppressing the most vulnerable people, ratcheting up racist attacks, and threatening to attack Denmark.

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        As a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.

        Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.

        His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.

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          Note how Jin, the Nazi Defender (not a Nazi themselves, they just defend people who are justifiably called Nazis) won’t respond to your answer.

          One feature from Reddit I liked was the ability to tag people. Or maybe that was the reddit enhancement suite. But Jin would’ve earned himself a big red “Nazi Defender” tag.

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            you can also tag people on Lemmy, or at least I can. look for the About User menu then “Add Tag” or “Tag user” from their profile

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            Nah its much simpler label than that.

            “Troll”

            The topic doesn’t matter, it more about fishing for provocation. In this case I couldn’t help myself, but… you know, don’t feed the trolls.

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        If you perform a Nazi salute, you’re a Nazi.

        Musk performed TWO Nazi salutes on national television during a presidential inauguration.

        Musk owns X.

        Anymore questions? Do I need to illustrate with crayons?

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          Some would say a Roman salute 🫡 So anything else substantial? That can’t be interpreted as something else?

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            Italian here, Roman actually.

            The Roman salute has not origin in ancient history.

            It was formalized by Gabriele D’Annunzio, a sick fascist poet and writer, as a salute for his proto-fascist troops with which he occupied Fiume in modern-day Croatia, having been inspired this painting.

            So yea, the roman salute is a fascist salute, invented by a fascist, for a fascist occurrence and to call it roman is a disservice to Rome and history in general.

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                not my job and this is not the place to waste my time providing a textbook-level of evidence of what you could have researched yourself if you were willing to be persuaded, but ask your History teacher if you’re seriously asking.

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                  Then why did you reply to me?

                  I know what a Nazi is However people often misuse it with people they disagree with. Elon already had a lot of hate before that.

                  Can a Jew be a Nazi? Are Kanye a Nazi?

                  People with their beehive mentality, just echoes being what other people says. Can’t have simple discussions without people trying crucify you for asking questions.

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                    Here’s a question: why don’t you take their advice seriously instead of being so sensitive to their manners?

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                  If you can’t answer him that’s all you have to say.

                  Don’t do this rigamarole of “do your own research to justify why other people use their words.”

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        I think it has lost meaning.

        It has. Completely. Basically what it means today is “people who disagree with me” and should be regarded as such. Unfortunately the actual nazis will fly under the radar now.

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        The word ‘nazi’ has 100% lost its meaning.

        Might as well just be saying “I don’t like this person or group of people because they disagree with me.”

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      Ekrem is Kemalist, which is very similar to a literal Nazi, but in the current world I’ll even agree he’s kinda better than many other variants.

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          The dude is trying to delete Mustafa Kemal’s name everywhere, claiming he is a kemalist is the equivelant of calling Stalin a nazi,

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            It is from a point of view of political science. He hates Ataturk but that doesn’t prevent him to use his methods.

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              he isnt comparable the toenail of Mustafa Kemal. All he does is selling off state properties and factories, polar opposite of what Ataturk did.

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                That’s an emotional reply. However he did fucked up the country pretty bad. But he uses Ataturk’s methods to stay in power, which apparently he studied them well. Of course it doesn’t describe him alone, he’s a combination of an Islamist, a centrist and a Kemalist. More or like what an islamokemalist is.

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          Ah yes, I can see how you can see the guy who used religion all his political career to his advantage and shat on the constitution just so he can stay in power longer, as a Kemalist.

          /s

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            Like legit, the guy hates Ataturk’s guts, yet these idiots claim that he is a Kemalist.

            I want what they are smoking. Must be some pretty good shit.

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            As I said, it’s a baseline for Turkey. Relative to that baseline he’s almost an Islamist, yep. Relative to it he was also a liberal initially.

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          I know, it’s basically impossible to be a politician in Turkey and not some kind of that.

          If you look at most Sunni societies, their political ideology optimal point is simple - behead all the infidels, take all that belongs to Muslims, and that’d be all that Muslims claim, and institute Sharia law.

          Young Turks and Kemal managed to transform that into a viable nationalist ideology. To be centered on Turks instead of Sunnis.

          No secular regime in a Middle-Eastern Muslim country after them has managed to achieve that.

          So - Erdogan’s Muslim part in ideology is about equating Muslim and Ottoman, not about returning to the initially described system.

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        Ah yes, the guy who had no ill will towards anybody, tried to unify people to the best of his ability, and provided cheaper food for the poor… is a Nazi!

        Holy shit, the sheer stupidity needed to come up with such a take!

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          Ah yes, the guy who had no ill will towards anybody, tried to unify people to the best of his ability, and provided cheaper food for the poor… is a Nazi!

          You mean Mustafa Kemal had no ill will when his army was massacring 200k Armenians in Kars and further during Turkish-Armenian war of 1920? Or burning Smyrna with its inhabitants?

          The best argument in favor of any pessimism about future is how Westerners conditioned to know that Hitler is bad, very bad, praise Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. BTW, in kinda similar terms to the popular praise of Hitler in English-speaking countries before the war.

          As a person he was absolutely not better, however he was intelligent enough to pick achievable goals.