The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

The World War II-era “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    24 days ago

    The Encyclopaedia Britannica definition?

    “Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.”

    Or maybe the Webster’s Dictionary definition?

    "a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition”

    Because by those definitions “fascism” is not being used incorrectly.

    If you have an alternate definition which supports your claim, you’ll need to provide it yourself.

    • BETYU@moist.catsweat.com
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      24 days ago

      ah yes just re-post the Dictionary and your all done. that’s the definition and now you have to apply it and make it seem its just that simple its not about the definition its how you use the definition and if you can really call someone a fascist because you disagree with them. its used as insult not because anybody believes in fascism. its used as a synonym for bad thing when it has a specific definition. just like the dude who said he spotted the Nazi just because he did not like my reply. it has nothing to do with what Nazi actually means the same with fascism. so just re-posting the Dictionary is meaningless it has nothing to do with that. its just labeling someone because you disagree with what they say and then just call them something bad for effect and that effect means nothing anymore because its overused and over done.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        24 days ago

        You said people were using the word wrong. I asked you what the word means. You said it means the definition, so I provided the definition. You still have not provided a meaning that demonstrates that the word is being used incorrectly.

        We’re not calling people fascists because we don’t like them, we don’t like them because they fit the definition of a fascist. You have cause and effect reversed.

        Again, if you would like to provide a definition for “fascism” that supports your claim, feel free to do so. Until then, the rest of us will continue to refer to the dictionary definition, and call the people who meet that definition “fascists”.

        • BETYU@moist.catsweat.com
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          24 days ago

          yes you are. you only have to look at my first reply. Spotted the Nazi does that ring a bell the first reply i got. that is what i mean when i said it has nothing to do with the definition its just used as insult to label someone something bad because you don’t like what they said. so no it has nothing to do with the dictionary definition. and it has no meaning anymore because this exact thing has been over done its a joke now. making it about the dictionary definition is very disingenuous because that’s not how it is mostly used.

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            24 days ago

            You were called a Nazi because that’s a reasonable response to someone claiming that fascists aren’t really fascists. The word is being thrown around a lot lately because fascism itself is popping up a lot lately. That is how it is mostly used.

            There are people using the term as a generic “insult to label someone something bad”: actual fascists and their supporters for the purpose of, as you said, diluting the term to try to rob it of meaning and turn it into a joke. Their bad faith machinations do not prove that the rest of us aren’t using it accurately.

            That’s why I provided the definition: to demonstrate that, yes, when we say “fascism” we are in fact using the term correctly because the definition aligns with the philosophy and actions we are witnessing. You still have yet to provide an alternative definition which is inconsistent with the way we are presently using the term.

            I wasn’t the one that called you a Nazi, but you have to admit that claiming the behaviors and ideology consistent with fascism aren’t really fascism is precisely the sort of thing a closeted Nazi would do.