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[-] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

he was trying to kill the king because the king was protestant and he wanted a king who'd force everyone to be catholic it's celebrating that he was stopped hung drawn and quartered L + rip bozo

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 year ago

Glad you pointed this out. The efforts of Guy Fawkes and his team were to restrict the rights of many. Although the character of V For Vendetta is cool, it's very, very loosely based on the actual Guy Fawkes (who gives me the impression of a bigot, from what we know of the gunpowder plot).

[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 36 points 1 year ago

Common religious squabble L for everyone.

[-] javasux@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ummm no

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot

who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

In 1604 Fawkes became involved with a small group [...] who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James and replace him with his daughter, third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

TBF it's a celebration that a plot to use terrorism to institute a Catholic theocracy failed.

IDK why people idolize the guy, he was a wannabe Catholic theocrat.

That shit Bloody Mary did, he wanted to do that but make it stick this time.

[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

It's called Guy Fawkes night, not James 1st night or Cecil of Salisbury night. We mark it by setting off explosions and burning things, just like Guido wanted to do. Guido gets the cool character design, and big screen reimaginings where he's a badass counterculture dude. Guido failed in his plot, but he won the PR war.

[-] Aqua@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the government ~~at the time was~~ is an asshole.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The older I get, the more I sympathise with old Guido

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

don't blame me i was celebrating man getting hit in the groin with a football

[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

AKA the "I only know about Guy Fawkes Day because of V for Vendetta" crowd.

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

AKA Americans

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

"The last man to enter parliament with honest intentions".

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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