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[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

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