so the thing about B/A/YC, cr/ypto, neonazis and white nationalists is that, like, obviously that stuff part of the idelogical soil out of which the entire cr/ypto movement grew?
b/itcoin comes out of "sound money", Austrian, and goldbug type ideas, which very much are potatoes in the same idelogical soup as all sorts of Bircher nonsense, including neonazism
most OG b/itcoiners are people who will start talking about the Rotchchilds the moment they think they're among friends. the entire thing is a riff on the fascist theme of antisemitism masquerading as anti-finance
like the entire thing is purportedly anti-banker, but by "banker" they mean "Jew." obviously the entire cr/ypto ecosystem is basically run by exchanges like Coinbase...
...and what the hell is an "exchange?" it's a bank, obviously. an unregulated bank taking unsecured deposits in highly volatile fake internet money, but a bank nonetheless.
one way to square this contradiction is of course the understanding that what's bad is the incumbent finance system - and from there they go into antisemitic conspiracies
so yeah, anything run by cr/ypto people can safely be assumed to be coming on *some level* from fascist tendencies. because as a whole the entire thing is a niche offshoot of a broader fascist project
now does that mean the stupid ape jpeg people were deliberately embedding nazi symbolism in the iconography they used? maybe, maybe they were just ignorant edgelords using the stuff that was floating around them. distinction without a difference, really.
ultimately I'm uninterested in the interiority of the monkey pog people because anyone who is that aesthetically deficient probably doesn't have much of one
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