• yucandu@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The problem is if everything becomes fascism, then nobody cares about it. I remember in high school people calling Obama a fascist. So now they have nowhere to go when Trump showed up.

    That kind of vague academic language screams of “word salad”, of people using big words to make themselves feel smart and feel like they’ve said and done a lot without doing anything at all. Like this Calvin and Hobbes comic:

    https://i.imgur.com/XUZce4A.jpeg

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      You’re not wrong. This is what anti-intellectualism gets us, and that goes double for the Hyper® versions.