Post #1754027
2026-04-23 15:34 UTC
@dashdsrdash They do change, and I think that's great so long as everyone or at least most people are on board enough with the change that meaning is not lost.
When I think of the kinds of behavior I think you're referring to on the part of Megacorps, I think of words like "exploitative" "immoral" "inhumane", "profiteering" and the like.
I don't really think of "facist". But perhaps that's because I struggled a bit for years understanding what Facism was other than "That thing Hitler and Mussolini did".
Reading books and understanding the heuristics that, at least at the time made facism facism was very helpful.
So maybe the problem is that tiny grug brained people like me need a new set of heuristics to actually understand what people mean for the NEW usage of "facist".
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@AlexxKay@kind.social 2026-04-24 05:16
@feoh This is perhaps the canonical list of what makes up fascism, written 30 years ago: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism. Eco is carefuI to note that a fascist government need not fulfil *every* criterion. But the current US administration clearly *does* meet every single one.