• zeekaran@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    You know how the stuff -gate means scandal? -punk means fictional genre, or aesthetic.

    • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      Maybe now but that is not what it meant in the 80s when cyberpunk and cypherpunk were coined. I am sure the punks are quite pissed off that their movement has been reduced to an aesthetic.