• atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Can people not understand definitions that are longer than 5 words?

    I dont understand why people on lemmy are trying to remove the meaning of every specific word related to politics, leaving a million synonyms of the same general thing and no word for a specific ideology

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      23 hours ago

      you’ve got it backwards: politics changes with the times and too many of us are intentionally taught to use the old definitions that stopped being applicable well before our great great grandparents died.

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        22 hours ago

        Nazi still has meaning today, but that doesnt stop people from calling any right wing extremist a nazi

        Also, whats the point of creating more synonyms?

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          21 hours ago

          nazi is still new enough to hand on to its original definition; fascism isn’t and doesn’t.