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For reference you could check this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago The cover has the same symbol.
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Why laugh? Hammer and sickle is the iconography for worker/peasant unity, often associated with Communist parties and Socialist states. What's the joke?
For reference you could check this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago The cover has the same symbol.
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> Or the swastika (whether hindu or Nazi)? TIL the word is actually from Hindi - I was all ready to object to your giving them the same name (if only I'd known what the Hindu one was called, assuming it was different) - I thought they were entirely unrelated symbols and ideas that just happened to have a similar representation. Seems obvious in retrospect, knowing स्वस्थ ('svast'/'swast' meaning healthy) though I sup…
I'm from the UK and was well aware, I think you may be surprised at how common this knowledge is. I worked in a bat in Sydney Australia that was decorated with a mosaic swastika and had signs up explaining it was built by Hindus ore WW2. AOf course they didn't build it as a bar originally.
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> Or the swastika (whether hindu or Nazi)? TIL the word is actually from Hindi - I was all ready to object to your giving them the same name (if only I'd known what the Hindu one was called, assuming it was different) - I thought they were entirely unrelated symbols and ideas that just happened to have a similar representation. Seems obvious in retrospect, knowing स्वस्थ ('svast'/'swast' meaning healthy) though I sup…
I'm from the UK and was well aware, I think you may be surprised at how common this knowledge is. I worked in a bat in Sydney Australia that was decorated with a mosaic swastika and had signs up explaining it was built by Hindus ore WW2. AOf course they didn't build it as a bar originally.
If you're objecting to me associating it to being British-born post-Nazism.. well, I spent a lot more time in school learning about the war and war-adjacent topics than I did Hinduism. And I don't recall the svastika from what I did learn about Hinduism at all. (I'm aware of it through film and reading.)
If I saw it in the street or as a tattoo (which I never have, aside from that depicted in American film and television) I would assume Nazism, unless it had dots or perhaps if it wasn't at an angle (or in film, obviously not if it's Bollywood). And the connotation of that isn't 'well-being' to me; I don't doubt (now, knowing the common origin) that's why they chose it, I'm simply explaining how I'd failed to make the connection.
> my association for 'swastika' are just not anything to do with well-being at all
Or if this is being misinterpreted - to be absolutely clear, I mean the word, as rendered in the English alphabet. I have absolutely no problem with it being used as a positive symbol, a स्वस्तिका, all I meant was that I didn't realise there was any connection at all! I thought there was one with positive associations, and one with negative, and they just looked similar but that was that.
It's not like those you list as there's no voting, but I maintain https://engineeringblogs.xyz/ which is a river of links to posts on over 500 software engineering related blogs. There's an OPML file if you want to take the feeds into your own reader or you can submit feeds to add. Oh, I also run https://rubyflow.com/ which is a MetaFilter-style linklog for the Ruby community, and somehow gets a fair few posts each d…
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Have you visited boing boing in the last few years? It’s literal cancer.
I used to visit it regularly until about a decade ago, but I felt too many of the posts were unnecessarily getting too political.
The types of posts look like it has greatly changed over the years. I'm curious as to why I was downvoted. I understand why the other person was downvoted ("literal cancer"). Oh well.