Anyone is a service industry has accepted money from Nazis, they just don't always show it like this. You have accepted money from Nazis, from abusers, from people who vehemently vote opposite to your interests, everyone.
People who display it like this relish the thought of you being conflicted. They get off on your moral crisis, because they have no morals. They would be giddy at the thought of you donating it to your own detrement.
You don't need to do anything special to counter them. If you believe the opposite to them, you are a valid opponent, and you should take care of yourself. If you typically donate to opposition causes, donate a bit more. If you typically spend money to survive, do that and keep fighting.
Money isn't dirty because it was spent by a poser edgelord. It's dirty when you allow the source to manipulate you into hurting yourself.
Money isn't dirty because it was spent by a poser edgelord.
In fact the opposite! Many would consider it highly moral to consensually extract the maximum possible amount of money from awful people. By accepting their money, you are depriving those awful people of financial power they could otherwise put to use in ways that could harm people.
Keeping in mind though that I'm saying "extract", not "trade." If you sell them something they can use to do bad things, you're not depriving them of power; you're just being part of their path to materializing their power. "Extraction" involves taking their money in exchange for something that isn't itself a form of power. For example, an experience.
(If you're a game developer, consider making an addictive gacha game marketed exclusively to fascists. They give you all their money; you give them worthless rare JPEGs.)
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u/grundee Aug 07 '26
Anyone is a service industry has accepted money from Nazis, they just don't always show it like this. You have accepted money from Nazis, from abusers, from people who vehemently vote opposite to your interests, everyone.
People who display it like this relish the thought of you being conflicted. They get off on your moral crisis, because they have no morals. They would be giddy at the thought of you donating it to your own detrement.
You don't need to do anything special to counter them. If you believe the opposite to them, you are a valid opponent, and you should take care of yourself. If you typically donate to opposition causes, donate a bit more. If you typically spend money to survive, do that and keep fighting.
Money isn't dirty because it was spent by a poser edgelord. It's dirty when you allow the source to manipulate you into hurting yourself.