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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That's fine with me, I don't have any interest in "let's just kill a bunch of people" as an ideology. It's objectively wrong.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's not the ideology though, guillotine memes are essentially just pushing for revolutionary restructuring of the state and economy. Nobody simply thinks "kill rich" and stops thinking there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Nobody simply thinks "kill rich" and stops thinking there.

That's news to me, I always got the impression that "????" Was the next step after "kill rich"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

More accurately, revolutionary restructuring of society is the first step towards a better future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Believe it or not, they are. Only humans are capable of such cruelty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is silly. Billionaires are people, otherwise guillotines wouldn't be effective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Right, a society of machines would never create something as vile, insidious and wasteful as a billionaire

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

In this case it would be self-defense. The only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because the danger posed by a billionaire money hoarder is far more abstract than what most people are accustomed to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The guillotines aren't necessary if the rich would strive for a better society.

The thing is that they would never agree to that, so then we need the guillotine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The path to a better society is elimination of Capitalism, so Capitalists aren't really going to agree to that, no matter how nice it would make things.