• schroedingershat@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    A phrase that refers to someone being openly fascist/nazi rather than trying to hide their true intentions.

    Mask-on: Bush era GOP or current European far right.

    Mask-off: DeSantis

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      11 months ago

      i don’t like pretending any kind of chess… it’s a scatterbrain thing to do…

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        11 months ago

        It implies the number of opponents isn’t changing, in a thread about how they increase in number.

        Taking the mask off isn’t always a good sign. Sometimes it means the hate is being normalized.