Mind boggling that big left wing industry names skate to bands like burzum and darkthrone and even rip off their imagery for their supreme / FA affiliated clothing lines.
Little late on replying to this, but for fucks sakes, to you kids who got your political education from American TV,
LEFT WING does not mean LIBERAL. That is an obfuscation that Trump and other conservatives like to make, painting people who are completely ‘center’ as some kind of radical.
Left Wing has traditionally meant SOCIALIST, and because socialism is associated with Communism, which in Americans’ minds is associated with godless freedom-hating Ruskies, it is a dog whistle term.
Lots of ‘progressive’ ideas (internationalism, solidarity, workers’ rights, civil rights) are also associated with the left, but at its core is a critique of capitalism.
This IS NOT WHAT PALACE AND YOUR FAVORITE SKATERS ARE ABOUT. They are fucking capitalist, and because they are, they have no problem snagging problematic imagery to SELL SHIT.
That might be centerist. You can be anti-fascist, pro-queer, and center capitalist (at least if you don’t think about it too much), but you can’t be ‘left wing’.
That term has no meaning as it’s currently used in the US.
and by the way, here is a great fucking song to skate to