• Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.socialEnglish
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        14 days ago

        “THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” - Mark Twain

      • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        We don’t actually want to kill billionaires.

        We joke about it because we want them to stop slowly killing us.

      • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        14 days ago

        Do you really read that and not conclude that we’ve been living in a perpetual Reign of Terror for the past few decades (or at least since the civil rights era)? This was a response during the beginning of the French Revolution, if we’re following historical playbooks than the revolution needs to be concluded.

        edit: meant civil rights, not civil war.

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      14 days ago

      It wasinvented to make executions more merciful as doing it “manually” came with many mishaps and iirc being the dude with the axe was not something many could stomach for long

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I support the idea of giving bunnies to horrible rich people, in order to warm their hearts and get them to change their ways. But it is important to note that even if you successfully bun down one person (that is to say, get someone to stop being evil by giving them a bunny), the system will find someone else to take their place. Ideally, you want to establish a credible promise that you’ll provide bunnies whenever they go too far and hurt people with their actions, but that’s not really something that can be accomplished on an individual level. That’s just too many bunnies for one person to take care of, and if anything happens to you, who will take care of them?

    In order to ensure consistent delivery of bunnies, what you really need is an organization and a support network. Of course, not everyone needs to be the one out there handing out bunnies. You might be surprised how hard it is to secure transportation and a safe place to stay when you’re travelling with a furry friend, and you might run into trouble if you’re trying to leave town after the fact, but your clothes are all covered in fur.

    The way I see it, promises are what make the world go 'round. Yeah, you can just pull out a bunny and surprise someone and that’s cool and good, but when you only have so many bunnies to hand out, ideally you just want to communicate what behavior will warrant a response so that they can avoid that behavior in the future (in order to avoid ending up getting overwhelmed by joy).

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    You know, I can see the headline if a Lemmy user used a bun on a billionaire. “Fringe social media platform encourages bunnilence towards innocent billionaires”… Actually has a good ring to it, although it reminds me of how people point to 4chan for the start of Qanon. Ugh

    Now that I think of it, would they require instance managers to narc over user data? Admins? If someone on a more extreme instance was to bun a billionaire, would everyone on Lemmy get put on a list or just their instance? Hmmm.

  • zeroday@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I’ve got a story idea for a cyberpunk dystopia. Imagine a world almost identical to ours. In that world, some inventive person creates a darknet website that allows anonymous donations to put bounties on corporate executives. Now, this site’s creator wants to make sure their site isn’t misused, so they implement guardrails like “Targets would be required to have over $10M in assets” and “each crypto wallet may contribute a maximum of $5 so it better reflects the will of the people.”

    Then, the site admin adds betting options like “who reaches a $1M bounty first”, over/under odds, betting on which target gets whacked first, etc, in order to draw traffic to the site. Maybe there’d also be a percentage of the bounty that’s paid out to organizations working to heal the damage caused by the target, so for example if a fossil-fuel exec gets whacked then that percentage goes to orgs working to stop fossil fuels.

    How do you think it’d play out in this story? Would the site properly incentivize people to shoot up boardrooms rather than schools?

      • zeroday@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        14 days ago

        It’d be fun to watch, it’d be engaging to the crowd, and it’d terrorize capitalists. Especially with real-time updates, imagine a CEO doing a press release and then having their bounty skyrocket as people hear the news.

    • Lennny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      14 days ago

      So…black mirror bee episode, without the bees. Hated of the nation? Something like that.

      Only way schools start to see improvements is when it’s rich kids getting capped, forcing lawmakers to, you know, make laws.

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Have you ever interacted with one of the Giants?

    I’ve had two Flemish. I’ve seen them crack wood with thumps. Not even their hardest.

    Let’s include some suits made out of blueberries.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Miniature pineapples make for good ambassadors, but if you’ve seen Little Nicky you’d understand the merits of much larger ones.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    People say China represses free speech, but at least there they recognize the representation and have a rich lexicon of codewords to get around it already.

    The shaping of the western mind has been much more subtle and total that few even accept that it’s happened.

    • NounsAndWords@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      I guess you have to learn to be more subtle with your propaganda when you aren’t allowed to just disappear anyone you want at any moment and create concentration camps for religions you don’t like.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      There’s plenty of codewords, slang and at this point even jargon about this sort of thing in use in the US. It’s just not widely shared, for obvious reasons.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I got banned from /c/news for “advocating” violence after making a joke about not being able to identify the suspect in the UnitedHealth CEO thread.

    • finderscult@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      15 days ago

      There’s a reason most of us have .world instance blocked.

      I’m sure there’s some poor mod on there in a community that just unfortunately was started on there, but genuinely it’s a better lemmy experience without.

      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        14 days ago

        The people talking in this particular thread, and OP, kind of seem like they don’t realize Lemmy isn’t just Lemmy.world.

        Like does OP realize that this community is on db0 and isn’t subject to the rules on the .world instance?

        • finderscult@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          14 days ago

          The fediverse is a complicated subject, even amongst those smart enough, or just clever enough, to find lemmy. Many users do think whatever instance they joined is the main one, still others believe .world or .ml as the “main” instance ruling over all others.

          It’s weird thinking of a service being this disparate, even if you try to use discord or other similar platform as an analogy, it still fails to acknowledge there is not central server or ruleset (beyond the software license itself).

          Bluesky further fucked things up by claiming to be decentralized and federated, and then getting popular.

          In short yes, many so think replying here means .world mods will ban their unrelated lemmy account from all of lemmy.

    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Same. Joked about starting a gofundme for the shooter. I thought better of Lemmy. Ah well.