Blakey [he/him]

The vast majority of the Wehrmacht were politically aligned with, and agreed with the goals of, the NSDAP. They participated in the crimes of the NSDAP. It is extremely common to call such people “Nazis” and always has been, and you know this perfectly well. The distinction you are trying to make is one that was only ever popular within the Reich. I do not feel any obligation to talk about Nazi Germany the way Hitler would prefer I do, but apparently that’s an important consideration for you.

That many “rank and file” Nazis were not prosecuted at Nuremberg is a miscarriage of justice, not proof that the Nuremberg defense was valid for them.

The mod log mostly tells us exactly what you said in your own words, the mods cannot modify what you said, only remove it - which is generally not done on hexbear for transparency’s sake. The only “smear” is the shit you willingly wiped all over yourself. People are reading the comments you had deleted, not just what the mods have to say about it.

uh huh.

I’m not saying the US is good

Just that everything it says about its geopolitical rivals can be assumed to be true.

So, free and fair elections. Well, now we’re back to square one, and pretty much describing how Western democracies work.

Consider Australia: all of the major political parties nakedly serve the interests of capital, and decide who can and cannot run in their elections. This is the case in all of the liberal “democracies”. They aren’t “free and fair” elections by any reasonable definition.

Normally I don’t respond to low level comments like this, but the intellectual laziness here is mind boggling. Dictionaries exist for a reason.

…I really, really hope that you are being deliberately obtuse here in refusing to acknowledge that they are asking what you mean by the term to further the conversation. The other option is that you think there’s some context where asking a person you disagree with for some kind of objective definition makes sense, and that really, really doesn’t speak highly of your reasoning ability. Different people have wildly different understandings of “authoritarian”.

False, that is the result of capitalism when it goes unchecked, not the definition. And different countries have different levels of checks on capitalism.

…you don’t think that the existence of a capitalist ruling class is part of the definition of capitalism? Why are liberals always so happy to lecture people on the basis of What I Reckon Sounds About Right Probably…

That’s… You’re literally describing capitalism though. Capitalism is defined by a capitalist ruling class which means that government can be expected to use its power in the interests of that class… Such as by bailing out corporations.