• spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    wouldn’t an electric chair be a closer match in meaning? nooses usually symbolize suicide moreso than execution these days

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        2 days ago

        Not really where I am? I guess it might be younger people or smth but I feel like oeoples first thought is usually suicide ato

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        2 days ago

        Janus with one a sounds like it might be a couple of countries south of me, we spell it Jaanus here in Estonia

        So basically I’m suspecting eastern europe for their origin and over here we mostly don’t think about lynching very much. Execution by hanging was a thing but so long ago it’s nearly forgotten.

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      Not sure where you’re from, but in the U.S., at least, nooses have a specific historical and cultural meaning. It’s illegal to tie a noose with 13 or more coild in the u.s. for this reason, and it has nothing to do with suicide.