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"The map is not the territory." OP's point is that they aren't going to dispute your label of "Nazi". You are attempting to change their behavior by extending the label of "Nazi" to cover them and in doing so tar their behavior by association with "Nazis". They are saying they would rather accept the label than change their behavior to suit you. You are now doubling down on the shaming attempt by trying to reinterpret this as a move towards the more agreed upon definition of the label rather than the refusal to bow to your shady tactics it is.
If that's what was intended then it's a misunderstanding. I took "I might as well be one" to mean an embrace of Nazism, given the surrounding context of Hitlerposting.
It's understandable that someone may say "I want to cut welfare and if you call that fascist, I don't care, I'm still for cutting welfare and I'll be your stupid version of fascist". But if not caring about it means talking about your belief in Agartha or something, then it looks a lot like just embracing the capital n Nazism instead. It's way less understandable if the response was "I want to cut welfare, and if you call that fascist then I'll gas the kikes too". The latter is negative polarization and not defensible logic.
If they meant the former and not the latter then fine, miscommunications happened. That's part of why I didn't even call them a Nazi to begin with, but asked for clarification cause the surrounding context was about Hitlerposting.
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