• iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    True, but monocles also remind people of steampunk. And since Marx and Engels were steampunk socialists, you could argue monocles are simultaneously bourgeois and proletarian.

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      10 months ago

      A very fair point to raise! In the case of steampunk energy, I feel like there needs to be a reminiscence of cogs and brass here.