{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Today Colin Spacetwinks mentioned running into someone with gauges and tats in his rural Maine area wearing a \u201cshoot your local...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184266964558/", "html": "<p>Today Colin Spacetwinks <a href=\"https://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/1118565518494044161\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned</a> running into someone with gauges and tats in his rural Maine area wearing a \u201cshoot your local heroin dealer\u201d shirt</p><p>And I was thinking about how that sentiment - often that exact slogan - crops up again in widely different subcultures and scenes \u2013 \u201870s blaxploitation, right-identified law\u2019n\u2019order types AND left-identified straight edge punks in the \u201880s, CasaPound eurofascists a few years ago&hellip;</p><p>I can\u2019t think of any examples from the \u201890s (at least past <a href=\"https://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/narc\" target=\"_blank\">the part</a> that was really the end of the Long \u201880s) which is funny \u2018cause that\u2019s the point where you had a major subculture - \u201cgangsta\u201d - that if not particularly anti-dealer in theory was associated with far more actual shootings of drug dealers than all of the others combined<br/></p>"}