Once again, the use of the guillotine imagery by Cory isn’t about promoting political violence but rather warning that political violence is what you get if greedpigs like the Sacklers aren’t punished and regulated by the peaceful administration of the law as legitimised by liberal-democratic institutions.
Cory may be a leftist firebrand who advocates for change, but if you think a comfortably upper-middle-class family man like him wants his daughter to grow up in the shadow of The Terror (or some other form of violent populist revolution) you’re reading him wrong.
The guillotine hasn’t been used in the service of ideological score-settling in a long time – it’s seen as archaic, slightly ridiculous, over-engineered, cartoonish and (to the majority of leftists who oppose capital punishment) barbaric. The noose that forms the basis of a lot of right-wing imagery, on the other hand, is anything but cartoonish and ridiculous and overengineered. It’s also been used far more recently by people who are very comfortable with the idea of executions and political violence. I’d worry more about the latter.
