To avoid, shun or boycott media channels, sport professionals, sports organizations, actors or actresses, musicians, other influential people or products by manufacturers that support "left" or liberal political views and candidates.
A political aesthetic that uses the visual language of leftist movements—raised fists, red flags, protest signs, revolutionary iconography—as a mood or style. Leftcore can be sincere political expression or aestheticized solidarity, depending on context. It draws on historical images of labor movements, socialist realism, punk activism, and contemporary protest photography. Colors are deep reds, blacks, and occasional splashes of anarchist purple or socialist gold. Leftcore is the look of a generation that came of age during austerity and climate crisis, finding in leftist imagery a language for resistance.
Example: "The poster was a stylized raised fist, bold red and black, with minimal text—Leftcore, turning political symbols into visual shorthand for a movement."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)