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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 07:01:55 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   I mean yes, they're exceptionally ugly shoes. But it goes much deeper than that; whether whoever designed them realizes or not, they are replicating a historical pattern that demonstrates why fascist ideology and the fascists who buy into it, cannot actually create cultural product. When you burn your artists and heterodox thinkers at the stake, you're left with nothing but a million grifters trying to skullfuck the old style but "shinier" every time, and that's not a random outcome.

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     Rich1047 (rich1047@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 07:02:04 JST Rich1047

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites So, A.I. in tangible form?

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 07:02:10 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     @Rich1047 YES, I hadn't thought of that, but yes I think you're correct in noting that the same phenomenon is going on there. Absolutely. There's an absence of meaning, a focus on form, minus meaning, at work in both places. You're dead right I think.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 07:02:37 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     The upshot here is that I will be perfectly happy if fascists start choosing to identify themselves in public by wearing ugly, glimmering high-tops that cost too much money. They hide too easily among us as it stands now; sometimes, a red hat, is just a red hat - but wearing a $400 pair of shoes directly out of Rocky IV isn't something you're gonna be able to hide so readily. I hope all those fuckers buy them.