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submitted 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] bouh@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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

[-] phthalocyanin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

what is generational wealth?

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