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hubertusVIE on Nostr: First-principles rule: If you reuse a symbol, you inherit its priors. You don’t get ...

First-principles rule:

If you reuse a symbol, you inherit its priors.

You don’t get to selectively import only the aesthetics.

The Antifa Aktion symbol is a highly compressed ideological package:
• anti-capitalist
• pro-state intervention (even if rhetorically “anti-authoritarian”)
• comfortable with coercion as a political tool
• aligned, de facto, with fiat systems, subsidies, and centralized power

This matters because symbols do not invert easily. Irony is expensive and unreliable.

If you reuse a symbol, you inherit its priors.

You don’t get to selectively import only the aesthetics.