A comic about fashion, authoritarianism, and skull emblems

[lady_*nix]

This is the most succinct summary I've seen of a thing that has bothered me a lot, for a long time:

"About Face: Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men."

https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/

You can take or leave the jargon parts (I agree strongly with most of them), but this is a very real pattern, and it's part of why I refuse to wear anything with skull symbolism on it. It is not lost on me that the skull was the symbol of the Waffen SS, and it's not lost on the modern far right either.

[SciFiFisher]

I must live in the wrong part of the country. I have not seen the all blacked out trucks and the black & white American flags. But, the symbolism issue is a very interesting concept.

[lady_*nix]

@Fisher yeah in Boston vehicles with black and white Blue Lives Matter flags are fairly common, and they're often blacked out.

Boston: actually pretty racist.

[SciFiFisher]

Along those lines I have observed that a large percentage of the population loves to get car windows tinted to the point that you literally cannot even see if there is anyone in the car. And there seems to be a correlation with rude driving behavior. Anonymity seems to encourage bad behavior.