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LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.world
(www.latimes.com)
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Who calls it that? ?
Typically Leftists on the various Lemmy instances.
But that's me! I guess world is p heavy with the liberal apologia, so I can see it.
The defining trait of Stormfront of course being its liberal apologia. These people are not grounded in reality and just need to keep finding more extreme labels for the people that did them wrong.
No but liberals, esp centrists, have a much higher tolerance for fascist ideology, esp cryptofascism.
It's like when people just don't perceive how awful racist dogwhistles like DEI, globalist, thug, etc.
I agree the term goes too far. I just see the connection. Most liberals are well meaning patsies, but they have a line.
That's an absurd level of connection though. It's blown right past the mild hyperbole of calling Twitter a Nazi site because it doesn't ban Nazis, past calling your Fox News uncle a Nazi for voting to "stop the caravan", through labeling MSNBC a Nazi station because it buys into the "break the conservative fever" myth, and into the territory of "everyone who doesn't agree with me is an actively organizing Nazi".
Stormfront isn't a site for "well meaning patsies" and calling .world a Nazi site is just making up a heroic story for why the fascist at 7/11 kicked you out because he hates communism rather than because you were being an asshole to everyone else in the store.
I normally just call them Axis.world
Usually is more common on Hexbear and other more explicitly Leftist instances, I don't typically frequent slrpnk.net so I am not sure if that terminology has spread there. If it hasn't, it's likely due to defederation and whatnot, IMO. Just spitballing, but I've seen stormfront.world frequently enough.