@philz@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days agoI feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movementmessage-square331fedilinkarrow-up11.7Karrow-down114
arrow-up11.69Karrow-down1message-squareI feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement@philz@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days agomessage-square331fedilink
minus-squareswab148linkfedilinkEnglish4•4 days agoWe needed that 40 years ago, in 2025 we have to fight against actual fascists doing actually fascist things.
minus-square@Blooper@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilink4•4 days agoCorrect. If anything, we’ve been too conservative with the word in the past decade or so. They’re openly talking about shipping off undesirables to gulags, but we’re supposed to tone down our rhetoric and not call them fascists.
minus-square...m...linkfedilink2•4 days ago…if they don’t want to be called fascists, maybe they should consider not being f*cking fascists…
We needed that 40 years ago, in 2025 we have to fight against actual fascists doing actually fascist things.
Correct. If anything, we’ve been too conservative with the word in the past decade or so. They’re openly talking about shipping off undesirables to gulags, but we’re supposed to tone down our rhetoric and not call them fascists.
…if they don’t want to be called fascists, maybe they should consider not being f*cking fascists…