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Re:I think I’m not alone that Mastodon is giving me the ick by kranke155 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:31PM (#35462503)
You're praising lack of precision and damning hyperbole, which i won't do.
Re:I think I’m not alone that Mastodon is giving me the ick by krapp on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:42PM (#35462579)
I'm not praising lack of precision, just noting it, because outside of technical fields language is never precise, and expecting it to be so is a sign of bad faith and pedantry. "Nazi" has generally referred to authoritarianism, racism and anti-semitism and more specifically the neo-Nazi movement for a very long time, and its spike in prominence with the right-wing shift in American politics post Trump isn't entirely coincidental. Context, as always, matters.

I'll damn hyperbole all day long, though, because I think people hide their malice behind it too often and it tends to poison the well.