• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    France only stopped using the guillotine for capital punishment 50 years ago. I’m guessing there is some basement somewhere full of still maintained “prison equipment”

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    12 hours ago

    Just so everyone knows, it was faked. They took an image of a guillotine being moved to a museum and added protesters around it

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      5 hours ago

      There are 6 of them, and the yellow jackets are only relevant there. Before you pointed I didn’t notice they are protesters.

      I just assumed they were people working around moving and assembling the thing.

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        4 hours ago

        You are correct. The people were here, they just had no yellow vest. The yellow vest was the symbol of protesters

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    11 hours ago

    I’m so glad to be born the year this abomination was abolished in my country. Only fascists/populists wish the death penalty should be brought back in France.

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      10 hours ago

      Only fascists/populists wish the death penalty should be brought back in France.

      Or, you know, the masses who want to give the fascists what they deserve. But keep playing nice with them, that worked last time, right? Right??

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        9 hours ago

        “Look, I’m a badass anarchist hidden behind my screen using homophobic rhetoric to prove my point”

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          9 hours ago

          I never said being a bottom was negative. Being fucked up the arse is great, it’s just weird when you’re willingly letting your government do it.

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      8 hours ago

      I watched a guy test a bunch of blade designs. Trust me, the mess of a stuck blade can ruin an entire day of beheading.

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        Agreed. The frustration is hardly worth the overtime. Especially when you’re trying to free a wobbly, dull blade wedged between two vertebrae and a poorly-planed drop channel. The anxiety of the crowd is only satiated by the agony of the condemned.