• reev@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    It’s a spin-off of “FCK AFD” which are stickers widely used to oppose the most popular far-right party in Germany. I think that’s where the design came from, feel free to correct me though.

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      9 months ago

      I’m pretty sure FCK NZS and NZS BXN existed before FCK AFD stickers. In fact, the AFD one is an outlier, because it doesn’t follow the “remove all vowels” rule.

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      9 months ago

      Actually I think the root of it is “HKN KRZ”, Hakenkreuz, aka Swastika. It was Nazis who came up with the format. There’s also “NZS BXN”, “box Nazis”.

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          9 months ago

          Box as in the Klychko brothers.

          There’s no real equivalent of “to punch” in German, usually you’d use “schlagen” but that means to beat in general. And then “Nazis boxen” is a Kangaroo thing.

          Also you’d be hard-pressed to find box wine in Germany. Sangria, yes, but not wine.

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          9 months ago

          It’s not really new in the sense that it’s the same ole “dress old symbols in new clothing to circumvent the ban on use of those symbols”. I think the HKN KRZ thing came after Londsdale, the clothing producer, came down quite heavily on Nazis abusing their brand (If you take a Lonsdale shirt and wear a jacket over it says “nsda”, only a “p” apart from what the Nazis want to wear). It’s more craftiness, not really creative in the pure meaning of the word. Gollum is crafty, too.