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It's soooooooooo confusing. Socialists? Norrrm 16 hrs ago #1
Nazis were never socialist. Blue Full Moon 14 hrs ago #2
Yep! Meanings are meaningless. It's the word itself that can be used in propaganda. LOUDLY! Norrrm 13 hrs ago #4
It doesn't matter. Morbius 14 hrs ago #3
Like the fact republicans brought over literal nazis Blue Full Moon 13 hrs ago #5

Norrrm

(6,123 posts)
1. It's soooooooooo confusing. Socialists?
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 08:49 PM
16 hrs ago

Republicans say they hate socialism, but they love Nazis.

The Nazi Party was officially named the National Socialist German Workers' Party (in German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or NSDAP).

"Workers" sounds so union and so communist.

Blue Full Moon

(3,800 posts)
2. Nazis were never socialist.
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 10:58 PM
14 hrs ago

They were hypercapitalist. Hitler took over the workers socialist party. Nazis violently went after the trade unions. Aligned with big business. Germany ended up with monopoly capitalism. Hence Eisenhower's warning about industrial military complex. Sound familiar?
Republicans do socialism for companies. They only holler if they think it will benefit a person they deem unworthy. Like all American workers.
Should have never brought over the paperclip nazis.

Norrrm

(6,123 posts)
4. Yep! Meanings are meaningless. It's the word itself that can be used in propaganda. LOUDLY!
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 11:24 PM
13 hrs ago

Morbius

(1,220 posts)
3. It doesn't matter.
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 11:05 PM
14 hrs ago

The label doesn't have to be understood; it just needs to stick. Once the label sticks, the propaganda machine (right-wing radio, internet, alt-right news) can define it to death if need be. I'm sorry. You're not wrong about this, but it doesn't matter what the label means. The folks who will buy what the bad guys are selling will buy their definition of the label.

Blue Full Moon

(3,800 posts)
5. Like the fact republicans brought over literal nazis
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 11:52 PM
13 hrs ago

To fight the red scare. They spread like roaches. When McCarthy was stopped. There should have been punishment and education. Instead nazi terms and ideas have infiltrated our government. Insidious use of separate but equal.

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