Boost if you like waffles or you want to guillotine billionaires 🧇

[rgsharpe@sfba.social]

@babe TRUE

Wait, XOR or OR or?

[jaywink@jasonrobinson.me]

@{babe@glitterkitten.co.uk} why not both! 💪

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@theplaguedoc @babe Putting my favorite meme response to good use.

[pinchy63@ottawa.place]

@babe
Yea please!

[vandorb12@infosec.exchange]

@babe the plausible deniability is what keeps me going in the morning.

[smellsofbikes@mastodon.social]

@babe "or"??

[sharpcheddargoblin@kolektiva.social]

@babe Yes. Just yes.

[0x4d6165@wanderingwires.net]

@babe

"For this is what distinguishes the fantasy of the guillotine: it is all about efficiency and distance. Those who fetishize the guillotine don’t want to kill people with their bare hands; they aren’t prepared to rend anyone’s flesh with their teeth. They want their revenge automated and carried out for them. They are like the consumers who blithely eat Chicken McNuggets but could never personally butcher a cow or cut down a rainforest. They prefer for bloodshed to take place in an orderly manner, with all the paperwork filled out properly, according to the example set by the Jacobins and the Bolsheviks in imitation of the impersonal functioning of the capitalist state."
crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@0x4d6165 I would go a step further. It isn't even about mass death being conceptualised.
Calling for guillotines isn't a literal scream for heads to roll, it's a cry of despair against an economic class that has built a system to disenfranchise the proletariat practically from birth. It's a fantasy of tearing down the very thing which oppresses us, the death of an abstract concept of power with a dose of exaggerated violence to drive home the strength of feeling

[0x4d6165@wanderingwires.net]

@babe fair! The essay does address this though. It's really good :)

[ainsleylowbeer@mastodon.social]

@babe

I like Waffles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HktF2G2E4pE

[xenophora@mastodon.art]

@0x4d6165 @babe

I don't know if I think of iconography or even cliche' as being synonymous with fetishization. But what do I know? I left my Masters application on the bus one day 27 years ago and only remembered five minutes ago. 🤔

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@babe

why not both? :)

[0x4d6165@wanderingwires.net]

@xenophora did you read the essay?

[xenophora@mastodon.art]

@0x4d6165

Yeah. I'm about halfway through. Thanks.

I'm really more a proponent of self-defense (which they cover) so I think I see their point. But I've never hit "LIKE" for a guillotine post in hopes that it would become a reality. If that helps any. I'm not pro-death penalty at all, regardless of the methods employed.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@babe *or*?

[galacticstone@mastodon.social]

@babe @0x4d6165 Here, here! Preach! 🙌

[easydor@metalhead.club]

@babe sure!
Waffles are ok.

[gustodon@mas.to]

@babe Boosted, and I'm not crazy about waffles.

[atleagle@mastodon.online]

@babe im not a huge waffle fan, but I boosted for visibility