Ukraine's European Revolution?

[Queequeg]

I thought the hipster crowd already imitated the downmarket items that proper poor people used.

I have seen people in Williamsburg wearing shitty-looking mismatched clothing that probably were worth half my month's pay.

Hey!  I wear those clothes. 

[Queequeg]

How fucking weird is it to see the Hammer and Sickle used as a Russian nationalist symbol?

It isn't weird at all. It recalls the times were their country was at the height of its power, which is a perfectly nationalistic thing to do.

I suppose, but it seemed to spend half it's time trying as hard as possible to repress ethnic Russian chauvinism. 

[Neil]

Well, the Ukrainians had better get a nuclear program going ASAP, because when the Russians roll across the border and start butchering everything in sight, the West won't be doing anything to help them.

[Sheilbh]

IMO, hipster would be mostly young trendy/bohemian people, while a bobo might be an older, more established guys, more likely to be an accomplished professional but still not wanting to fully "integrate" in mainstream bourgeoisie.

Yeah. David Brooks would write about bobos in paradise. Reihan Salam or Ross Douthat would write about hipsters.

[Admiral Yi]

It isn't weird at all. It recalls the times were their country was at the height of its power, which is a perfectly nationalistic thing to do.

Yup.

[garbon]

I thought the hipster crowd already imitated the downmarket items that proper poor people used.

I have seen people in Williamsburg wearing shitty-looking mismatched clothing that probably were worth half my month's pay.

Maybe. I also know a lot of people in Williamsburg who are poor out of affectation aka their parents could help them if necessary aka slumming.

[Neil]

I thought the hipster crowd already imitated the downmarket items that proper poor people used.

I have seen people in Williamsburg wearing shitty-looking mismatched clothing that probably were worth half my month's pay.

Hey!  I wear those clothes.

Because you're the Languish hipster.

[derspiess]

How fucking weird is it to see the Hammer and Sickle used as a Russian nationalist symbol?

It isn't weird at all. It recalls the times were their country was at the height of its power, which is a perfectly nationalistic thing to do.

Still weird in the context of right-wing-type nationalism.

[Queequeg]

I thought the hipster crowd already imitated the downmarket items that proper poor people used.

I have seen people in Williamsburg wearing shitty-looking mismatched clothing that probably were worth half my month's pay.

Hey!  I wear those clothes.

Because you're the Languish hipster.

Mihali?

[Sheilbh]

Maybe. I also know a lot of people in Williamsburg who are poor out of affectation aka their parents could help them if necessary aka slumming.

Not getting help from your parents isn't an affectation.

[garbon]

Maybe. I also know a lot of people in Williamsburg who are poor out of affectation aka their parents could help them if necessary aka slumming.

Not getting help from your parents isn't an affectation.

I meant in the sense that they were choosing to make the choice to be poor vs. actual poverty as they have a safety net if shit gets serious.

[Neil]

I thought the hipster crowd already imitated the downmarket items that proper poor people used.

I have seen people in Williamsburg wearing shitty-looking mismatched clothing that probably were worth half my month's pay.

Hey!  I wear those clothes.

Because you're the Languish hipster.

Mihali?

Come off less hipsterish.  Also has a job.

[Queequeg]

Yeah, but a lot/most of my interests are pretty distinctly anti-Hipster.  Vast majority of Hipsters consider Christianity to be tacky.

Also, that's TBR stuff. 

[Neil]

What's TBR stuff?  You being a hipster?

[Razgovory]

How fucking weird is it to see the Hammer and Sickle used as a Russian nationalist symbol?

It isn't weird at all. It recalls the times were their country was at the height of its power, which is a perfectly nationalistic thing to do.

Still weird in the context of right-wing-type nationalism.

Eh, it's like southerns flying the confederate flag.  It's part of their proud "heritage", even though it's a symbol of tyranny and treason.