If it salutes like a Nazi, quotes Hitler directly like a Nazi, implements word for word Nazi policies like a Nazi, gets caught emailing how much they love Nazis in general and Hitler specifically like Nazis, plasters their workspace in American flags altered to have Nazi imagery like Nazis, is plastered in Nazi tattoos and literally specifically says it wants to be like Hitler’s military of fucking losers because it thinks the Nazis were right and wants to be like a Nazi, is offended on behalf of Nazis when it comes to light that Nazis are terrible, and their primary purpose in life is white supremacy and the suppression of anyone and anything that isn’t on board with white supremacy painting all resistance as some kind of attack by lesser beings who do not deserve life on whites who are the only ones of value in this world like they might be Nazis and never ever does anything that might make it seem like less of a Nazi doing overtly Nazi shit every single motherfucking day while demanding the blood of all those who question an all-encompassing authority relentlessly pushing language and powers as though it were in active war against its own citizens and the world at large seizing all arms of public and private sector media by brute force and “legal” threat with no legal basis to act as propaganda arms on permanent overdrive that drapes itself in racial rhetoric, hollow religious overtures in absolute conflict with the religion it claims to be imposing, and nationalist demagoguery burning to the ground all history that doesn’t suit its self-deification or incidentally involves anyone that isn’t white contributing to a society trying to pose itself as singularly white triumph, it might be a FUCKING NAZI.
And if there was nothing to compare all this shit to? If this was a unique singularity of unprecedented overt racism, corruption, state encroachment on previously guaranteed rights, a relentless assault on your own citizenry, the villainization of truth, and designs on global dominance through sheer belligerent narcissism and there was no verbal shorthand for how it all happened before and went straight to shit in much the same way it’s going to shit before your very eyes? It would still be the same heinous, self-destructive, doomed fucking shit having the same negative effects oppressing your own people destroying your own history and culture for a mythic re imagining that no amount of brute force will make into reality and you’d still be getting called out for all of it. This is like a child demanding you apologize for telling them to get their hands out of the cookie jar by insisting it’s a biscuit tin, and so because they don’t accept the terms cookie or jar they call you a liar for accusing them of taking the cookies they are clearly eating right in front of you.