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> And then when people complained about that, I explained in detail that Futurism was a popular style of propaganda art on all sides of the early 20th century c
by eesmith 3y ago
> And then when people complained about that, I explained in detail that Futurism was a popular style of propaganda art on all sides of the early 20th century conflicts; it was not used only by the Soviets and the Chinese, but also by US in their own propaganda, particularly in recruitment posters and just about everything the WPA did, and even by the Red Cross. So if you looked at our branding and it made you think of Communism, well, I'm sorry, but that's just a deep misunderstanding of Modern Art history: this is merely what poster art looked like in the 1930s, regardless of ideology!
> That was complete bullshit, of course. Yes, I absolutely branded Mozilla.org that way for the subtext of "these free software people are all a bunch of commies." I was trolling.
> I trolled them so hard.
No direct link to source because jwz.
- nailer 3y agoWhat’s wrong with JWZ?
- grzm 3y agoHe redirects links from HN.
- npteljes 3y agoYou could use a dereferer redirecter, like so: https://dereferer.link/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/ https://dereferer.link/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/the...
- eesmith 3y agoI respect his decision, and decline to use automated technical means to get around it.