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I just got called a nazi because I said i didn't think he was a nazi but it was a bad look. So I kinda get it.
Maybe he's trying to kill himself by assassination. Become a martyr over what he claims is innocent by inspiring nazi killers to go after him.
Jk but idk man I don't see the payoff in watering down the word. Sorta 1984 ourselves by losing vocabulary to effectively call out evil and thereby harming the chances of uniting against an easily titled grouping?
Comment by veryreasonable at 23/01/2025 at 22:39 UTC
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Maybe he's trying to kill himself by assassination. Become a martyr over what he claims is innocent by inspiring nazi killers to go after him.
Personally, I think that's a lot crazier than the idea that he thinks about how people will talk about him before he does something that will obviously attract a media storm.
Jk but idk man I don't see the payoff in watering down the word.
Well, I didn't suggest he cares about the whole thing on this level.
I think the payoff is in how people talk about him (and of course how *many* people are talking about him). He likes the attention, and likes being popular with people who A) think trolling people for the sake of edgy trolling is cool, and B) think that "liberals crying 'Nazi' are the real Nazis!" This is his crowd. He just did the most "this crowd" thing you can do - and his getting called out for it is both obviously expected, and gives him some "shared suffering" vibes with anyone else who has been called out for being a Nazi and wants to blame "psycho liberals" about it.
I only mean to suggest he has some basic forethought here, not that he's playing nine dimensional chess or deeply concerned, long-term, about the dystopian linguistic evolution you cite.