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The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists

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    I never had contact with this part of the hyprland community. I had quiet son in dep discussions with maintainers and a currently 5k lines deep in, in removing technical depts from the codebase.

    I never had anything but pleasent communications.

    I would love to see some examples (and if someone uses the terms highly toxic and rife with fascist I expect a lot examples) of this.

    Be aware, as a German, I am highly sensitive on the missuse of the term fascist. For example many use the term fascist to describe Trump. That is not true. Trump is straight out a fucking Neo Nazi

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      many use the term fascist to describe Trump. That is not true. Trump is straight out a fucking Neo Nazi

      can you explain that distinction? I was under the impression that neo nazis were fascists.

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        Yes they are. It is just more precise. Fascism itself is not inherently racist or has some kind of master race. Neo Nazis do.

        And of course calling him a fascist is not inherently false. But just leaves out 80% of it

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          Eh I would point out that fascism doesn’t need to be racist to be evil, AND that there’s a reason why fascism is the preferred form of government for racists.

          So, like, you’re not technically wrong but I think the point you’re making is bordering on moot.

          Fascism is bad. Racism is bad. Most racists are fascists. Many fascists are racists.

          The venn diagram of fascists and bigots of one type or another is damn close to a perfect circle

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            It was ja joke. Someone who is very particular about the meaning of words is sometimes called a “word Nazi” but it should be “word fascist”. Tried to play on it and forgotten that nobody outside Germany has any association with this m)

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          What, fascism is definitely inherently racist. Everything boils down to people with certain qualities are more fit to rule and should be the ones filling the community.

          • vapeloki@lemmy.world
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            Nope, sry to be a little bit picky here but the definition of a Nazi is more or less “rassist fascist”. But bot vice versa. Have for example a look atBrazilians integralism. Or Salazar’s regime in Portugal .

            If you weaken those definitions you will trivialize what Nazis did. It is so so so much worse then “simple facism”, pleas excuse this awful term in lack of any better

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        they’re only fascist if they come from the fasces region of italy, otherwise its neo nazi.