I'm not the first person to say this: while fascism may have a particular aesthetic, it doesn't really produce culture—certainly nothing of any redeeming historical value. All it can do is appropriate, twist, degrade, and make profane the sacred. A blatant example of this is the Nazi swastika, but such things seem to happen all the time.
Right now we're seeing FLOSS culture being appropriated into fashtech. And I'm not sure FLOSS culture has enough inherent social capital to resist.
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
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