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For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism. This is what cryptofascism means. They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels. You’re being played.

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I would humbly submit that people so easily led probably want to be led to that place I would even hazard some enjoy going to that place, as they finally have a permission structure in the social circles they inhabit to really lean into it. And a whole new language to do so!

“Zionist occupied government” is stupid because there’s nothing “occupied” about it. The US is a genocidal white supremacist settler colonial state and so is Israel. They’re just Zionist governments.

That’s fascinating… so what do they mean? Because some of us having never seen them before and would like to know how to push back.

I think it’s because many of us have never seen these terms used in our spaces before so assumed they were new lingo. I had never seen them until yesterday and I’m 43 and not new to the internet.

Oh that’s cool and I’ve had a couple great conversations about it on other comments but this guy me is just silly. It’s right there in the post! It’s totally fair that someone wouldn’t know this

Another case of "i don't know what this means and it sounds like that's fine." Sometimes replying to someone with a genuine "wtf are you talking about?" is a powerful tool to make them feel their ideas are unpopular.

You’re not just creating your own terms that happen to collide with the Nazi terms. You’re being propagandized by Nazis, some of whom are posing as leftists.

Genuinely sad that fascists are using "zog", because this is what I think of when I hear the word (and I will be DEVASTATED if Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler are secret Nazis).

I'm a leftist who was aware of the term "ZOG" but had never heard "Zio" before. If I see it from now on, I'll know what it is and where it comes from, and if I see a friend using it, I'll let them know too so they can stop. Tell me again how these posts like this "don't really help anybody?"

The reason is, there's not a whole lot of Nazi antisemitism propagandizing going on with Bluesky (or in any of your leftist circles, probably!) There IS however a very similar website where that's basically all that goes on, all day and night long.