Friendly reminder that just because someone disagrees with you on the internet or supports a politician you don't like, that doesn't mean they're a fascist or a nazi, and that doesn't make it okay to dox or assault them. By broadly applying these terms to everyone you dislike, you strip them of any and all power, and when actual, real fascists and neonazis who get accused of being fascists or nazis it won't be taken seriously because everyone's just going to assume they're another random innocent person being falsely accused just because they posted a lukewarm take you disagreed with. Please look up "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", it's a very enlightening story that the vast majority of people on the internet are unfortunately unfamiliar with.
inb4 I get called a fascist or nazi apologist for this
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@galena
Shut up you god damned communist! :P
But yeah, good message, but it's gonna fall on deaf ears. The sort of people that would do this are already in their little bubbles (left-wing or right-wing) and any attempt to reason with them is usually doomed to failure. I honestly wonder if it wouldn't be better to think of these people not as political ideologues, but as members of cults instead.
@alyx I've viewed them as cults for years.
