bsmall2Perl Markdown Guy:
> ... we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs.
> “MAGA” and “Trumpist”, for sure. “Republican”... those names shameful, deservedly...and there will be no need to apply the shameful names of hateful anti-democratic illiberal failed nationalist movements from a century ago... assert this rhetoric with urgency, make their names shameful, lest the slur become our name — “American”. https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_names_they_call_themselves
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> ... we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs.
> “MAGA” and “Trumpist”, for sure. “Republican”... those names shameful, deservedly...and there will be no need to apply the shameful names of hateful anti-democratic illiberal failed nationalist movements from a century ago... assert this rhetoric with urgency, make their names shameful, lest the slur become our name — “American”. https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_names_they_call_themselves
#MarkdownGuy #DaringFireball
The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.