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nevesmose · 4 months ago

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So I don't want to leap right into saying "please create fascist symbolism for me" but sure, feel free to give it a try if you'd like to!

There are definitely a lot of elements you could play around with. Like the Aberdeen city council logo recently had a "futuristic" redesign that feels quite dystopian to me whenever I see it...

Why are the leopards so skinny and oppressive looking now? Why is it purple? Where has the crown gone? To be honest you could redesign the city flag with the purple colour and simplified coat of arms elements and it'd end up looking the part...

Purple on grey/black with the simple blocky towers and the much more aggressive, jagged looking flory-counterflory pattern would give it a suitably unpleasant vibe imo

In this house we support Aberdeenshire Shortlisted Design B

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Also I figured it out, when you see it moving Design E doesn't just look generically fascist but in particular it looks like something a monarchist Helghast faction would use in a Killzone game.

#fun with flags #am i beating the fascism allegations mutuals?#everything about fascist ideology is ugly and brutal and oppressive including its symbolism. it rejects nature and beauty #just as it rejects thought and freedom #everything is crushed down to the simplest most thoughtless forms of symbolic representation because complexity is its enemy #complexity leads to the consideration of alternatives and nuances which the ideology cannot allow #because the trade it offers to its followers is that if they're in the designated superior group they don't have to think any more #because the real world is chaotic and scary and it's so so much easier to not have to deal with it any more #by abdicating the responsibility to the superhuman Leader figure who will do it for them instead #and the constant insidious cognitive dissonance between the world as it is and the world as it Ought To Be leads easily to hatred #first and most deeply I would argue hatred of the self but inevitably because that's mentally damaging to experience #it's very easy for it to be directed instead onto external concepts and groups #for instance “the democratic process is holding us back so if we get rid of it things will be so much better”#or whatever designated outgroup or external threat is held up as the problem #i'm rambling #i guess my point is like this: a lot of socialist and social democratic movements use a rose as a symbol #it has many different meanings both politically and just generally. everyone has their own particular individual memories and associations #with what roses are and what roses can symbolise #there could never be a fascist rose. by that I mean that of course you could design a suitably simple aggressive angular rose logo #but it wouldn't be a Rose any more. its capacity to carry any deeper meaning or have any links to ideas like progress or growth or nature #would just be gone. and in its place you'd have a simple thought-eliminating shape designed to mean only one reprehensible thing #i've yapped a lot in these tags. feel free to ignore it

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