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I mean yes, they're exceptionally ugly shoes. But it goes much deeper than that; whether whoever designed them realizes or not, they are replicating a historical pattern that demonstrates why fascist ideology and the fascists who buy into it, cannot actually create cultural product. When you burn your artists and heterodox thinkers at the stake, you're left with nothing but a million grifters trying to skullfuck the old style but "shinier" every time, and that's not a random outcome.
The upshot here is that I will be perfectly happy if fascists start choosing to identify themselves in public by wearing ugly, glimmering high-tops that cost too much money. They hide too easily among us as it stands now; sometimes, a red hat, is just a red hat - but wearing a $400 pair of shoes directly out of Rocky IV isn't something you're gonna be able to hide so readily. I hope all those fuckers buy them.
@AnarchoNinaWrites Punch the guy in gold flag shoes seems safe.
@ellestad @AnarchoNinaWrites one would think but please do due diligence in case it’s actually a 90’s club kid who did so much ecstasy they can only see things that are gold or silver lamé. Smelling of clove cigarettes or humming groove is in the heart by Dee-lite are dead giveaways.
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I have another idea that doesn't like the pockets of a racist/rapist/fascist
@jcutting I feel like they're going to give him their money one way or another, but touche - I would also be absolutely fine with this identifier.
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Entirely tangental, but this got me thinking about Doc Martins, and where they used to stand in a lot of places - those were very expensive shoes that 'looked good' but that was, at the time, completely secondary.
Primarily, they were indestructible shoes that lasted forever- the real world iconization of the Vimes 'Boots' theory (though this was before that, so perhaps the inspiration for them?).
The trump things, however, aren't 'for wearing' so useless and pointless.
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I suspect those shoes are poorly made and will fail the wearers at crucial points.
@AnarchoNinaWrites So, A.I. in tangible form?
@Rich1047 YES, I hadn't thought of that, but yes I think you're correct in noting that the same phenomenon is going on there. Absolutely. There's an absence of meaning, a focus on form, minus meaning, at work in both places. You're dead right I think.
@AnarchoNinaWrites @Rich1047 This is because embracing fascism is a form of self-trepannation it means you have to just take out certain parts of your brain in order to sustain belief in the horrible things you are believing.
That’s my theory anyway.
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I just hadda explain the shoe thing to my kissmate. 
Only the fringes of it show up in her eWorld; she's on "mainstream" social media (Shitter, Threads, & Bluesky, token FB, Insta)
Her reaction was very much WTF.
[ whiny Trump voice ]
„There will be many more art! So many art! Strong man leader posture art projects! So many, many!“ 
Dude! That's not art. That's a dirt cheap second-hand propaganda imitation and everyone with half a brain cell outright *hates* it. 
@AnarchoNinaWrites Huh... this has happened recently on TV/Movies/music and many more artistic endeavors... coincidence? 
Oh! Just read the comments and AI dude is correct... it happened in business and tech too.