Notices by Nikola (alfa_vuk@metalhead.club)

@inthehands But fascist iconography is objectively cool. That's the whole point. Fascism is the aestheticization of politics. You insist on toeing the proper liberal line about how fascism/nazism is so obviously and utterly "annoying" and what possible idiot could ever support it? Well, fascism is scary, powerful, and cool-looking. That's why so many supported it, that's why you probably (and I) would have if we lived in Germany at the time. You're revising history.

@Catvalente you’re right. It’s not praxis, it’s vibe politics and as long as the LGBT community is committed to vibe politics we’ll always be in this limbo where there’s a perpetual danger of the pendulum swinging the other way.

Corporate Pride lets everyone pretend something is being done, something is getting better while more and more queer people (alongside everyone else) become hungry and homeless thanks to those very same corporations that fly the rainbow flag every July.

@trochee @Catvalente I know, I am disagreeing. It is a distraction. The betterment of LGBT rights in the US wasn't because of corporations or marketing firms. It was because activists have worked concertedly on it for decades.

The key thing is corporate pride started in earnest after the Supreme Court decision to allow gay marriage. When it was safe to support LGBT causes companies started doing it.

Companies are not LGBT allies. If they could make money being anti-LGBT they would.