Sign the petition on change.org for a guillotine emoji.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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petitioning for a fucking emoji epitomizes the criticism that social media is a vehicle for diverting action into impotent dialogue.
since we're on the subject
retributive violence against individual actors is not the same as dismantling oppressive systems, and should not eclipse the important work of creating resilient communities and networks of mutual aid to replace those heirarchies.
I think you took the joke a bit too seriously
Edit: oh wait wtf I didn't notice the post body. I agree with you then lol
I just wanna conspire with comrades using pretty little pictures.
You mean like when the emoji for gun went from something realistic to a squirt gun?
Sad guillotine noises
Let’s make the guillotine happy again?
Emoji are a new form of language and language dictates thought
Yes, but there's something to be said about the ouroboros of thought that social media produces.
It's funny how reverting to pictograms is being construed as "new".
New and improved!
My problem is that I only understand one of those things. The other is meaningless hot air, spewed exclusively by intellectual elites who may or may not have any idea of what that is even supposed to mean.
And that explanation doesn't tell me anything either. Put up a guillotine. Put the man in. Let the blade fall. I understand that. Create a network of mutual aid to replace hierarchies? Never saw that happen. Never learned about that, or how that is supposed to work. Don't know what that is supposed to mean, or how that is supposed to play out.
If you assume anyone knows about any of that, and if you assume that anyone can imagine anything concrete about that, you are out of touch. You are communicating ineffectively. At least to me. And probably to most other people as well.
The effect of examples is not to underestimate. That's how they keep workers in check, and that's how guillotining a king got 2 centuries of democracy.
incredibly simplistic perspective, and intellectually dishonest; we traded monarchy for a dictatorship of the capital owning class.
Yes, and it was a big paradigm shift, from blood linage to money linage.
what is generational wealth?
Bitching about someone else's efforts is just bitching.
You offer to no alternative effort.
If this wasn't social media, you'd not be saying this for fear of a swift ass whooping.
thank goodness internet tough guys exist to defend limp-dick slacktivism.
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Did you just call my ~~sincere effort to get an international movement for the recognition of the guillotine emoji going~~ shitpost "limp-dick slacktivism"?
I'll have you know I am so anti work I am currently not even employed.
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Here's my alternative effort: I joined the SSBN force to get a front row seat to the end of the world. Gimme a valid and authentic EAM and I'll flip that switch like there's no tomorrow, 'cause there won't be.