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Sign the petition on change.org for a guillotine emoji.

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[–] [email protected] 254 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

I just wanna conspire with comrades using pretty little pictures.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean like when the emoji for gun went from something realistic to a squirt gun?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did...did he just invent the vacation?

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next up "I'm a CEO who gets hungry in the middle of the day, so I had a sandwich and some chips and found my creative spark."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

more like I had some avocado toast in a nice cafe with my latte. Ah yes, the creative spark.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had some avocado toast 5 years ago and now I can't buy a house :(

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be 4 day work week and 6 weeks vacation. There is absolutely no need to work this much. So many bullshit jobs, just to keep people employed and busy all their lives.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Not just employed but underemployed. Forty hours a week for not-40 hours worth of money. We call it a grind because it's designed to wear us down to bare subsistence.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Sure, that gets you the time off, but this guy flew to Paris and hung out for that entire time and found his "creative spark". We also need like 50% higher wages so we're not sitting in a Parisian cafe thinking "oh fuck this vacation is going to bankrupt me" or stuck at home unable to afford the flight to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Laughs in german labor laws.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

"What if I pay my workers even less..." 🤔

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Source??

Or is this just rage bait

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Engagement is engagement, whether people are engaged through anger or love.

Engagement is the only metric these types of media sources care about.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Source not for consumption but as proof that it’s not just a bs screenshot for rage bait to push their link

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Oh boo fucking hoo. I have zero empathy for these fucks making millions every year and grinding wage slaves into dust.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This guy could be anybody in the EU

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean... I came here to say that you can go after the guy for being a CEO, but taking a month off is not particularly controversial over here. If anything, when I talk to a US business owner, which I sometimes do, hearing about how they are constantly working is normally more of a red flag than the opposite.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I'd settle for a Trebuchet emoji, because I'm fine with flinging billionaires across the landscape at high speeds.

Honestly, a lot more fun than a guillotine, imho. Think about the ragdolling as they tumble in the air.

EDIT: Also, the longer the hangtime, the longer they have to think about the decisions that led them to people wanting to fling their body a few miles with a trebuchet. No forced self reflection with a guillotine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~eat the rich~~ fling the rich at high velocities

Not quite as catchy, but that does sound amusing!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Fuck emoji, we need guillotines.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People on LinkedIn be like....

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh god I have so many screenshots of peoples LinkedIn posts that are so detached from reality. Unfortunately most of them are in German.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I was burned out so did mushrooms and looked at the sky naked in a parking lot. I found my God.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Rage bait, moving on.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

The fact that a 30 day vacation is seen as privileged is a failure of the US.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

No guillotine; but we do have a sword.

🗡️

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The CEO’s who are making millions of dollars? I don’t think really do anything, so if they just didn’t show up to work for a month would it even be that noticeable?

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

You'd see a noticable uptick in productivity without their meddling.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, I'm not a CEO and I could do the same and have vacations days remaining. What you need is an union.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Must be nice

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Obligatory reminder that the guillotine was primarily used against commoners who were the political opponents of the party then in power.

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