your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>g’morn</p><p>i know this is an opportunity to pile on Apartheid techbro, but am not even exaggerating when i say that, as a historian and “culture critic”, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Boomers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boomers</span></a> embrace of the OG <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> car ―the VW Beetle― is one of those research things that keeps me up at night. </p><p>hand-waving it away as a feat of marketing doesn’t explain how one of Adolf Hitler’s prized cars, for the tech developed with it, became a symbol of white American youth radicalism, aka <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hippies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hippies</span></a></p><p>h/t <a href="https://mindly.social/@DamonCrowley/114174340347059100" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mindly.social/@DamonCrowley/11</span><span class="invisible">4174340347059100</span></a></p>