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Tim Bray
Tim Bray
@timbray@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_names_they_call_themselves

Really extremely good, especially at the finish.

#USpol

Daring Fireball

The Names They Call Themselves

*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.
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Michael
Michael
@michael@mstdn.thms.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 29 minutes ago

@timbray I was gonna say it might be too late for the conclusion.

Then I realised the slur is not ‘American' - It's ‘Yank’. (Which is probably fairer to all the non-US Americans…)

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❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️
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@SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@timbray the ending..... from comments I'm hearing outside the US, I think it's too late to say "lest it..."🫤

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Pascal Costanza
Pascal Costanza
@pascal_costanza@functional.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@timbray @mapcar Unfortunately factually wrong, at least partially: “Nazi” was in fact introduced as a pejorative for “Nationalsozialist” in the German language, similar to “Sozi” for “Sozialist” which was then already in use.

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Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@timbray I wish he'd increase the font size...

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Stephen
Stephen
@subtl@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@dangillmor @timbray I thought that too then remembered I was still using Chrome with reader mode!

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