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I'm here for the popcorn. Maybe to sell some.
I'm for changing the name, not because it offends me, but because it harms no one. This kind of change is healthy for those of us that are old enough to vehemently resist change just because we can. The rise of right wing authoritarianism in the USA is also a great reason to reject anything that remotely resembles a positive spin on fascism, even if it was never intended as such. I think the name was satirical in its original intent, but such simple obvious satire may fail to register with the types of people primarily targeted by authoritarian politics. It's not worth repeating dystopian nightmares. Stupid people are the dangerous numerical majority.
Then if those people come in, we can just ban them and send them back to Stormfront or whatever rock they crawled out from under.
There's no reason to surrender the name of our community to them based on absolutely nothing. The very idea is asanine.
This is the correct answer.