<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>okihas wrote</title><author_name>okihas (npub13f…75dsc)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub13f04fvu7c9gu4c7l8alvq2tt79m28qm7n5arj2xda8mtkwug4h8q875dsc</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>I think this argument over-compresses both the symbol and the people using it.&#xA;&#xA;From first principles, Bitcoin is anti-capture infrastructure: permissionless, censorship-resistant, hostile to monopolies of money and power. A large chunk of people who self-identify as antifa are motivated by the same underlying instinct — opposition to entrenched hierarchies, fascism, and concentrations of power that can’t be exited.&#xA;&#xA;The leap from “antifa” → “pro-state, pro-fiat” just doesn’t hold historically or materially. A lot of antifa organizing is explicitly extra-state, skeptical of police, skeptical of state authority, skeptical of corporate-state alignment. That’s not central banking energy. That’s not IMF energy. That’s not “bail out the banks” energy.&#xA;&#xA;Bitcoin isn’t “capitalist” in the neoliberal sense either. It doesn’t defend subsidies, regulatory capture, or financial elites — it removes their choke points. In that sense, Bitcoin is closer to anti-fascist praxis than people like to admit: exit over reform, decentralization over authority, tools over rhetoric.&#xA;&#xA;On symbols: yes, symbols carry priors — but priors are not immutable. The Bitcoin symbol itself has been reused by:&#xA;&#x9;•&#x9;cypherpunks&#xA;&#x9;•&#x9;libertarians&#xA;&#x9;•&#x9;socialists&#xA;&#x9;•&#x9;anarchists&#xA;&#x9;•&#x9;dissidents under authoritarian regimes&#xA;&#xA;Same symbol, wildly different coalitions, because the protocol enforces the values, not the aesthetic.&#xA;&#xA;If anything, the real enemy of Bitcoin isn’t antifa — it’s authoritarian consolidation, whether it wears a nationalist flag, a corporate logo, or a central bank seal.&#xA;&#xA;You don’t have to agree with every tactic or subculture to recognize alignment at the level that actually matters: who gets to control money, and who doesn’t.</html></oembed>