They are actually really consistent. Real life Hitler was a Zionist. Not everyone knows that.
Or there is an additional explanation. Maybe you label anyone who doesn't have your exact views a fascist, and there are a lot of different people who don't have your exact views. You put everyone who doesn't yield to whatever you want in the same camp and then act like their inconsistency is proof they are lost.
You are one point in a sea, but act like all other points need to behave as a single point.
I am curious for your explanation for the leader of the AfD being a woman, a lesbian, married to an asian wife living in Switzerland. And no, this is not proof the party is not fascist, because it is.
You think SS men had tattoos? There's a long list of points that would have todays fascists in jail under Hitler.
Here is my crazy take that is 100% accurate but you aren't going to accept. Fascism was a hyper specific ideology. The name literally refers to absolute adherence to all, some being very obscure, tenets. All the parts form a fasct. You don't have fascism if you don't have all the parts. That's the point.
No one believes 100% of all the tenets of original fascism, and doing so is the actual definition of a fascist.
So I don't care about your feelings or general vibe of different political groups. I'm an autist. I care about technical definitions. They aren't fascist. They are bad, because they are zionists and authoritarians. Hitler was also bad because he as a zionist and an authoritarian. But the AfD is not national socialist nor fascist. Bad people can actually be their own thing believe it or not.
I know that breaks left solidarity in using ill-defined pejoratives. But I don't care about that. I care about what words actually mean.
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The public's image of fascists is that they have really steadfast positions. But the opposite is true. They hang their swastika flags with the wind.
Last year's jews are this year's muslims and vice versa.
They are actually really consistent. Real life Hitler was a Zionist. Not everyone knows that.
Or there is an additional explanation. Maybe you label anyone who doesn't have your exact views a fascist, and there are a lot of different people who don't have your exact views. You put everyone who doesn't yield to whatever you want in the same camp and then act like their inconsistency is proof they are lost.
You are one point in a sea, but act like all other points need to behave as a single point.
I am curious for your explanation for the leader of the AfD being a woman, a lesbian, married to an asian wife living in Switzerland. And no, this is not proof the party is not fascist, because it is.
You think SS men had tattoos? There's a long list of points that would have todays fascists in jail under Hitler.
muslim nazi troops
Here is my crazy take that is 100% accurate but you aren't going to accept. Fascism was a hyper specific ideology. The name literally refers to absolute adherence to all, some being very obscure, tenets. All the parts form a fasct. You don't have fascism if you don't have all the parts. That's the point.
No one believes 100% of all the tenets of original fascism, and doing so is the actual definition of a fascist.
So I don't care about your feelings or general vibe of different political groups. I'm an autist. I care about technical definitions. They aren't fascist. They are bad, because they are zionists and authoritarians. Hitler was also bad because he as a zionist and an authoritarian. But the AfD is not national socialist nor fascist. Bad people can actually be their own thing believe it or not.
I know that breaks left solidarity in using ill-defined pejoratives. But I don't care about that. I care about what words actually mean.
I accept your take.