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Protesters decrying the killing of Renée Good know what they saw with their own eyes.
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Call the regime what it is. They're fucking Nazis. End of story.
At least Nazis in WW2 believed in something. This administration is cruel just to be cruel.
They believed what they did about Jewish people, the queer community, and communists, about as much as modern MAGAs do about the queer community, immigrants, and "Marxists", and for basically the same reasons. The Nazis practiced cruel violence for propaganda purposes too. There are differences to be sure, but I don't think you'll find they're not huge or terribly ideological.
We need to use a new word, because they're proud of being compared to Nazis, and it's lost its effect.
Call them commies. They hate anything related to socialism, but they're creaming their pants at the idea of the government giving handouts to the people who "deserve" it (a.k.a. themselves) while everyone else lives like peasants during China under Mao.
I mean the thing all of those have in common is garden variety authoritarianism. Whatever the base system technically is doesn't matter, if they're just going to have complete control over everything. It's all authoritarianism.
But, as you said, they're proud of being compared to Nazis. Calling them authoritarians would just give them a fuzzy, tickling feeling in their loins—because "authority" and machismo.
If the goal is to describe their own behavior to themselves in a way that they both understand and will blow a gasket over, calling them communists is pretty much a guaranteed way to do it. Most of them don't actually understand what "communism" or "socialism" is beyond conflating them with Russia and China-flavored authoritarianism. Add on to that they grew up being indoctrinated into unquestionably believing that communism is the antithesis of America, democracy, personal freedoms, and all that is good in the world.
They see themselves as the good guys fighting evil. Calling them "commies" is, in their own minds and in a single word, outright saying they are the pure evil they hate. The cognitive dissonance of trying to reconcile that thought for even a moment would be agonizing.