Apparently, Facebook is a safe haven for people who call for the beheading of public officials

[gracchus]

@GulliverFoyle

I’m assuming you’re referring to the non-specific posting of guillotine memes here by us peons as a warning that unfettered amoral late-stage capitalism leads to reigns of terror to which not even the wealthy and powerful are immune

What, this guillotine false equivalency again? That’s so played out that two dedicated topics were started about it here to avoid these de-rails.

Alternatives for guillotines

Thanks for making this topic. If you can put an end to all the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching concern here over @doctorow’s use of the guillotine image you’d do us all a great service. This can also be a good reference topic to avoid the derails caused when these delicate souls drop to their fainting couches. To start, though, we need to be clear on: the concept that he and others here are trying to represent with the image what his and others opinion of the concept is whether and w…

On the topic of guillotines and false equivalencies

The guillotine memes aren’t threats, they are warnings to those who are ignorant of history. The conditions that led to the French Revolution are similar to the ones of today (high inequality, the rich finding loopholes that allow them to avoid tax to the detriment of the poor, political mismanagement by our leaders). The only thing that I know is different is that there aren’t food shortages, but those may be about to come to Britain in just over two weeks. I do not think this is good, rather…

For whatever reason, some people are invested in the narrative that BB is full of bloodthirsty left-wingers, but it just isn’t so.