Monday, 23 January 2017

Day 23: TransSickle GenderHammer

Has anyone here ever heard of the anti-fascist-movement? Antifa? Anarcho-communism? Libertarian-socialism? Well, apparently there's a whole mess of these jokers who are generally opposed to governmental authority, generally in favour of collectivist economics, and generally believe that violence is the best way to deal with fascist oppression. Unfortunately, most of them also believe that everyone who disagrees with them is a fascist, and therefore fair game. It's like the far left looked at the neo-nazi movement and thought, "Yeah, we can go one better than that."

Believe it or not, these charming lads & laddettes are multiplying in Europe, apparently in opposition to right-wing movements, which have themselves been growing in opposition to the mass refugee intake. They also, apparently, turned out in force, in America, during Trump's inauguration, to smash up shop-fronts and set cars on fire. Going by the photos I've seen, most of them were sporting fairly vanilla Anarchist & Communist iconography, but there were also a few interesting little mash-ups, including this gem:

This was done entirely with the power-stroke feature in Inkscape, and is composed of nothing more than four straight lines and one circle. That probably means very little to most normal people.

It appears to be some sort of merging of the communist symbol and the trans-gender symbol. I guess it's reassuring to know that even violent thugs are supportive of LGBTQQIAAP+ people. Well, y'know, unless they're in government, or own businesses or whatever.

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