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    2 months ago

    I’m still trying to grapple with progressive language taxonomy.

    How did the term fascism all of a sudden become revived linguistically to simply mean “conservative”. Back to point #14 on the reinvention of language.

    “Tankie”. This one is fun. Is it derived from video game language “tank”? Someone or something who can soak up a lot of hits? It doesn’t sound derogatory because of this, but rather congratulatory. Are progressives using this term because of its association with military tanks (and hence, militaristic fascism)?

    Enshittification - Noteworthy to me how this has come to only be used in progressive left spaces. Rightists, despite also observing the gradual worsening of tech, for whatever reason do not have this word in their lexicon. I am familiar with Cory Doctorow btw, and have been to some of his talks.

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      2 months ago

      Conservatives use fascist to describe their opponents just as much as leftists. Doesn’t change the fact that Donald Trump is a literal fascist.

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        2 months ago

        Harris and Biden are complicit in Genocide. It can’t get more Fascist than that. You guys are doing the pointing Spidermen meme now.

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        2 months ago

        No, they don’t. I also tour a number of conservative online spaces and I have never seen them use the term fascist to describe anyone.