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submitted 1 year ago by zakobjoa@lemmy.world to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] phthalocyanin@lemmy.world 254 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] maor@lemmy.org.il 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

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

I just wanna conspire with comrades using pretty little pictures.

[-] Followupquestion@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] teft@startrek.website 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Followupquestion@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Let’s make the guillotine happy again?

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Emoji are a new form of language and language dictates thought

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, but there's something to be said about the ouroboros of thought that social media produces.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It's funny how reverting to pictograms is being construed as "new".

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

New and improved!

[-] Wollff@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

retributive violence against individual actors is not the same as dismantling oppressive systems

My problem is that I only understand one of those things. The other is meaningless hot air, spewed exclusively by intellectual elites who may or may not have any idea of what that is even supposed to mean.

work of creating resilient communities and networks of mutual aid to replace those heirarchies.

And that explanation doesn't tell me anything either. Put up a guillotine. Put the man in. Let the blade fall. I understand that. Create a network of mutual aid to replace hierarchies? Never saw that happen. Never learned about that, or how that is supposed to work. Don't know what that is supposed to mean, or how that is supposed to play out.

If you assume anyone knows about any of that, and if you assume that anyone can imagine anything concrete about that, you are out of touch. You are communicating ineffectively. At least to me. And probably to most other people as well.

[-] bouh@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The effect of examples is not to underestimate. That's how they keep workers in check, and that's how guillotining a king got 2 centuries of democracy.

[-] phthalocyanin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

incredibly simplistic perspective, and intellectually dishonest; we traded monarchy for a dictatorship of the capital owning class.

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, and it was a big paradigm shift, from blood linage to money linage.

[-] phthalocyanin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

what is generational wealth?

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