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Imagine how awesome it would be to see Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates, Biden, Kamala get their head chopped off in times square. I love the "wall" and all, but it just doesn't compare

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

shrug-outta-hecks I live every day under a guillotine blade that's way less merciful. Death from freezing if I don't pay rent, starvation if I can't afford food, diabetes if I can't afford healthy food, PFAS/PFOA cancer if I do nothing at all anywhere. Those people are murdering me for profit instead of some crime. Their guillotine blade is hovering over the entire planet within my artificially-shortened lifetime. Turning that blade on them directly would be the most merciful response possible. Any alternative I can think of begins with lining every road with crosses.

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have better alternatives

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems like it'd get all gunked up.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Lubricated.

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: The french last executioned someone with a guillotine while the original Star Wars was in theatres in 1977.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every time I hear this factoid, people have always compared it with the Star Wars movies. I wonder why nothing else

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

interestingly the last public one was in 1939 and there's video of the event, also Christopher Lee said he was there.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If for no other reason, it has the best theme song of any execution method: The Guillotine by The Coup

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

The people yearn for the gui-better

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

It should have never left us

[–] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago
[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

brother we should bring back drawing and quartering let alone the guillotine

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Stick them on a pike

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I propose we bring back Tito's favorite method. barbara-pit

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I think firing squads are way funnier. I watch shark tank with my friends and whenever one of the sharks (except Lori who I have a crush on) says something dumb one of us yells out "shoot that guy"

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey they wanted us to put all this money into prison labor systems, somebody's gotta use them. Guillotines are a waste of human capital, I'm sure musk is smart enough to swing a hammer