|
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social |
the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.
105 replies 256 reposts 2074 likes
|
Veleda_k
@veleda-k.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"We need to revolt! We need to take to the streets!" Ok. Ok, do it. Go do something. Spray paint a police car. Throw brick through a senator's office window. Oh, you're not? You're not going to do anything other than scold people for talking about voting too much? Yeah, I thought so.
1 replies 1 reposts 5 likes
|
Silly B Man
@lawnerd.bsky.social
[ View ] |
One of the all time Twitter bangers
5 replies 25 reposts 271 likes
|
Cate 🐬
@catebridget.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“hahaha ur so dumb for saying vote harder” says guy whose plan is to post harder
0 replies 0 reposts 7 likes
|
rifka the unhinged fat activist
@rifka.bsky.social
[ View ] |
american lawyer brain that you project your cowardice onto those who have not willingly stepped into that machine
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Eleanor, OFS
@eleanorofs.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The problem with voting is that voting for the "lesser evil" still in some sense implicates me in evil. This is why I prefer the straightforwardly morally pure act of advocating for chopping people's heads off.
5 replies 6 reposts 56 likes
|
Ian
@ianagp.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I definitely think the Nazis and TERFs and Racists are worse but what do I know?
1 replies 1 reposts 7 likes
|
Ol' Chef Dan
@olchefdan.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The guillotine has been replaced by the tramway barricade BBQ anyway.
0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬
@kategodart.bsky.social
[ View ] |
it would be cool if they did
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Traveller In Black
@traveller-in-black.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Just another form of authoritarian creep - they're also the ones who want Biden to order Seal Team 6 to do crimes.
2 replies 0 reposts 6 likes
|
The Hidden Zoo
@hiddenzoo.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I sometimes think about guillotines. Then I remember I have a mortgage. Sometimes at DnD night when we pretend to be elves and dwarves we also fantasize about guillotines. Then we remember that we all have mortgages and most of us have kids.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Conductor
@chanchan.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They brought a guillotine on 1/6 Do you think they would not use it for real?
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
☆ chrissy glissy ☆
@gliss.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Like, I'm not going to do it but if someone I liked did it I'd totally be fine with it. And as long as we still have DoorDash after the end"
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
The Lore of Justine
@troppypop.bsky.social
[ View ] |
99.999% of people who post stuff like this want to watch revolution from the safety of their own basements. They won't initiate it, and they won't even join in when it starts. Vibes and rewards only.
3 replies 0 reposts 11 likes
|
@saschavykos.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If you know they aren't going to do it, then doesn't that imply they're just venting, too? Leadership isn't doing anything to protect us. They told us to vote harder in the face of an opponent who has told us he will steal elections and a court who has told us they'll rubber stamp it...
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Ing aka Tophat Artooning
@ingforart.bsky.social
[ View ] |
0 replies 2 reposts 3 likes
|
Voder of BORG
@crosis101.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Do you usually plan insurrections in a fascist state by putting an ad in the paper or….? Asking for a friend.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Jamie
@jamiestl.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Even a serious attempt at a revolution would be a mess and best avoided, but what is your alternative then? Decades of “just vote” has brought us here.
2 replies 0 reposts 8 likes
|
🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
[ View ] |
acab includes whatever this post is
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
🏳️⚧️🔞Bunny Bismuth: Bun To Be Wild🔞🏳️⚧️
@bunny.bismuth.gay
[ View ] |
Rule number one of these people is that it's someone else's job to work the guillotines. Rule number two is that anyone who gets it deserves it.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
but have you considered instead posting everything that comes to mind no matter how many fbi agents might come to your home or workplace
0 replies 0 reposts 24 likes
|
Andrew Elder
@awelder.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Everyone who calls for the guillotine assumes they will be a spectator. Nobody gets that real revolutions involve good and innocent people swept up in the maelstrom while scumbags become wealthy and powerful
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
@purkmonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I get where it comes from. I’m frustrated and angry too. That said, I agree that it isn’t terribly helpful and maybe they should just put the phone down and yell into a pillow for a bit.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Daniel
@buckmeister.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Yeah people using the Internet for a bit of hyperbole are the worst and not the people using the Internet to spread fascism, or chill porn or recruit for the manosphere. Those are all fine and not the folks being a bit arch because they feel electoral politics hasn't delivered in 50ish years
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Pearl River Flow
@pearlriverflow.bsky.social
[ View ] |
building 3-5 terrible metal-dropping door frames in their apartments before losing a foot and giving up
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Flintlock
@flintlock.bsky.social
[ View ] |
There is indeed no history of physical force antifascism to draw lessons from. Voting or talking about guillotines online. Those are indeed the only political tactics that have ever existed and can ever exist.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
@planet1347.bsky.social
[ View ] |
When you say it’s “time guillotines” consider that you might be first in line.
0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
Anna Leigh 🏳️⚧️
@annatleigh.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's all about larping with fellow tankies on who's the most radical
1 replies 1 reposts 2 likes
|
Gloria!
@smilodonichthys.bsky.social
[ View ] |
People say that shit without realizing guillotines were an expression of state violence. It's like using Old Sparky as a symbol of revolution. Most of the people who got their heads chopped off were peasants ffs
2 replies 0 reposts 8 likes
|
Mark Armstrong
@fabricatus.com
[ View ] |
I think the mechanism works with ropes and counterweights, but a huge rolling metal or stone ball (a la Indiana Jones) could work as well I suppose.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
What Would John Brown Do?
@johnbrownsbody.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Given that you posted this and dropped this podcast just a few hours apart, one might conclude that you are pro-monarch
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
What Would John Brown Do?
@johnbrownsbody.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The latest in and endless chain of exhibits demonstrating that lawyers will not be allies in any real fight against actual fascism
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Ontario Man
@barrhavenist.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Those aren’t the worst dudes online though
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
@robjackel.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They *might* smash a window in a coffeeshop.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
@technicalsquirrel.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"we're gonna build power in the streets" and it's just holding a snarky sign
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
@roombaman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Dudes ain’t even guillotining a blunt
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Nebby
@nebbynebula.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I don't see it as a call for literal guillotines, so much as a callout that righteous violence exists, and I guess a criticism of liberal pacifism. I doubt any of them are practicing said violence, but that doesn't make them incorrect.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Back to the jorts
@newbalance.jorts.dad
[ View ] |
No you see they want someone else to do their revolution for them
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
MOKTOP
@moktop.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They're the worst online?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Daniel Farnitano
@dfarnitano.bsky.social
[ View ] |
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Electrichead
@electrichead.bsky.social
[ View ] |
God, shut the fuck up. Fight the real enemy instead of wagging your fuckin finger at people who are mostly on your side.
0 replies 0 reposts 15 likes
|
Little Gems
@lettucewrangler.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Anyone serious about this isn't talking about it online
0 replies 0 reposts 8 likes
|
Beverly Skeetmaker
@bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Also hilarious because if they knew anything about the Reign of Terror they'd know how that particular strategy will eventually work out for them
0 replies 0 reposts 10 likes
|
Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Look, the pulley mechanism is more complicated than I thought.
0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
Moon Cthulhu
@mwcpodcast.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Well, they didn't take part in electoral politics, so all they have is to demand a revolution that they also won't take part in.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
derek
@derek.bsky.social
[ View ] |
We need to reserve the guillotines for the billionaires. Let’s not lose sight of the true villains here.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Totally Immune President Warren G. Harding
@popeawesomexiii.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A leftist stochastic terrorist is better than a real tangible fascist terrorist any day of the week and twice on Sunday
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
@memccarron.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It may be when they googled 'guillotine' they got curious and two clicks later learned 10 years of French Revolution led directly to France's 1st emperor (Napoleon) and 15 years of Napoleonic wars-- and not some equality and fraternity and liberty like it said in all the brochures.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Josh "Go Drink The Sea" Brown
@theotherspeakman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Did Robespierre build one? No, that lazy motherfucker just waited for them to chop off his head.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Geek Grammy
@geekgrammy.com
[ View ] |
I got into it a few days ago with someone who INSISTED that voting is pointless and we need to do something else. Well, sweetheart, yes. If everyone stops voting, it WILL be pointless.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Tend!
@tendehka.bsky.social
[ View ] |
today has been great for making fun of people larping as leftist commandoes
0 replies 0 reposts 28 likes
|
Bison bison
@bisonbison.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I mean, the vote guys are also extremely annoying
2 replies 0 reposts 13 likes
|
Courtney Shannon
@cshannonpdx.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Yep.
0 replies 2 reposts 10 likes
|
Gauchohaulic
@gauchohaulic.bsky.social
[ View ] |
We’re not going to Rambo our way out of this mess.
0 replies 1 reposts 1 likes
|
First Wordle Problems
@fwordleproblems.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I mean, such people DO exist, the ones who are plotting armed uprisings or whatever. But they're usually just called "terrorists" and they don't post about it online ahead of time.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
First Wordle Problems
@fwordleproblems.bsky.social
[ View ] |
And by this point I'm as much of a cliche as they are but I'll never shut up about how THAT'S NOT WHAT THE GUILLOTINE WAS ABOUT. During the Terror, the guillotine was mostly for common criminals, and priests, and people who said the wrong to the wrong person. Not for "landlords" or "capitalists.
5 replies 1 reposts 16 likes
|
Big Fat Bartolo's Colon
@graweman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Peter the time for politics is over. the time for u to post those horse pics has come
1 replies 0 reposts 37 likes
|
vek
@vekzero.bsky.social
[ View ] |
People want to sound cool but do none of the work of doing cool.
1 replies 0 reposts 27 likes
|
Max’s Dad
@djwyszynski.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Can you imagine people who can't change their oil trying to construct a guillotine- you can't buy them on amazon. I mean U.S. emergency rooms handle 10,000 fireworks injuries every July 4th weekend. 42% of those injuries involve the losing hands, arms or fingers
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Ashton
@ashtonk.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Also demonstrates less than a Wikipedia level understanding of the French Revolution.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Jacob
@raoulduke1976.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A guy who’s kid isn’t on the chopping block. Mine is.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
JHB
@jhb.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The guy polling in the lead seems amenable to the idea of guillotines, so who’s to say it’s a wholly foolish idea?
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Dustin
@32mbit.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Plus you'd have to build a LOT of guillotines and who has the time and money to do that? Not me
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Kevin Patrick Doyle🥫🍅
@kevin-doyle.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Man I’m almost 40, have a kid, and a mortgage, there is no way I’m getting out to watch the executions
5 replies 1 reposts 29 likes
|
Jane the Bane
@janethebane.bsky.social
[ View ] |
leftist equivalent of the navy seal copypasts
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Jake Who Walks The Land
@jakefattie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
the revolution will not be tweeted!
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Ham Elliot
@r0wdy.sk33t.expert
[ View ] |
Person who has debilitating social anxiety and spent 3 weeks demanding cheap Doordash be a constitutional right are for sure going to lead a violent revolution
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Habros?
@ohtheshumanity.bsky.social
[ View ] |
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Toast
@dauntingtoaster.bsky.social
[ View ] |
in a way they understand a guillotine is best with a crowd but beyond that? hard to say
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
KENNETH SCOTT.EXE
@superactionfunboy.bsky.social
[ View ] |
We’ve all seen ‘the worst dudes online’ and it is not this. Everyone who has made a ‘guillotine’ comment is very likely feeling and worrying about all the same things you are. When has scolding as an influence tool done anything but create horizontal violence
0 replies 3 reposts 14 likes
|
jcc333
@jcc333.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Also, like, as a matter of history didn't the guillotines come *after* a string of electoral successes?
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
@loyalmice.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Biden last act of this term with his new found immunity should be to send Clarence Thomas to Guantanamo. For the sake of national security.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
LRSH - Education Podcast
@lrshedupodcast.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Would role playing the revolution be more your thing?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmg...
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
@ravenlasagna.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I've met plenty people in person who ask 'why hasn't someone 'done' something about this'. And I ask, 'why haven't you? who are you nominating?' Because all I've seen is people full of hate on the right willing to go over the line.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Matcha🇵🇸
@matchateauwu.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Idk, actual neo-Nazis are pretty bad but let's punch left
2 replies 0 reposts 8 likes
|
@relaxedninja.bsky.social
[ View ] |
dude, give me some time. Blade needs oiling, etc.
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A corollary to this is the guy who thinks the American public will respond as well to threads of violence and they do
1 replies 0 reposts 73 likes
|
yaboi kusama
@lexaproletarian.bsky.social
[ View ] |
So we CAN vote fascism away?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
@empresstrace.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's been intensely frustrating to see people that, nominally, are on the same side as me on needing to defend against facism now more than ever, but they believe that calling people who want to rally voters stupid and otherwise providing no path forward is somehow, against the odds, the right play.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Phil McDuff
@mcduff.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Just checking how it's going over there? Is it good?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
As A Dog-man ☭
@scooterdavis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I think engaging in a little romantic reverie is fine and healthy. The equivalency to QAnon is just ludicrous, the left version of QAnon is Russiagate.
1 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
𝕊𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕥 ℙ𝕒𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕟 🦠x0
@maxwalrus.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Wow so you're against guillotines I guess
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
The Woker
@bone2meetu.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The question of what we would do while the Nazis came to power has been answered with a collective “nothing” no one is doing anything or is going to do anything and there’s no allies to come save anyone this time
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
fleep
@fleep.bsky.social
[ View ] |
That's a brutal, primitive solution. We have industrial lasers now.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
@stevehartzler.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm hoping for woodchippers. Way too lazy to do anything about it myself though.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Elizabeth Roderick
@talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Watch my TikTok where I lovingly handcraft artisanal guillotines
1 replies 0 reposts 7 likes
|
Van Weasel 🔥 Summer Hater Arc 🔥
@vanweezer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is why I'm instead building a trebuchet named the long yeet of the law, for entertainment purposes only
0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
Jim Nardecchia
@goodguyjim.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Oh my god someone needs to make a bot that just replies "you ain't about that life bud" to every one of those
1 replies 0 reposts 7 likes
|
🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸
@schizanon.bsky.social
[ View ] |
you:
1 replies 1 reposts 14 likes
|
Donatello @ HÖR BERLIN
@firebel.ly
[ View ] |
But MY posts will make the difference
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Doug Moffett
@liberallibra.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The time for The Executive Branch to galvanize the DOJ to go after the Insurrectionist MAGATs in Congress, the Criminal Justices on the Supreme Junta and any and all other criminal elements of the RNP(REPUBLICAN NAZI PARTY)....like the song says: Should have been done long ago....
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Fletcher Studios
@fletcherstudios.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Dorothy Day: 'Everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes. '
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Andrew Blum
@ablum.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As always… 'Cause it won't get you anywhere Foolin' with the guns The British Army is waitin' out there An' it weighs fifteen hundred tons
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Jesse Hughey
@hughey.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I build one and the moment a prisoner puts a foot on the first step, it collapses into scrap lumber like the bunkbed in Stepbrothers.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Tony Goins
@itradedmyeyes.bsky.social
[ View ] |
1000 of those tweets are worth 1 retired Indivisible lady with a cup of tea and a stack of postcards.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Bible Blackbelt
@estrusflask.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The problem here is that it only works when enough of us decide to roll out the guillotine. But I don't really see electoral politics working out for the last eight years, so I'm not really sure how people can keep saying this even as it looks more and more like Trump is going to be president.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Banshee of Inishittening
@jwar.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Ten people googling “where to buy guillotines discount” and then panicking that the FBI are on the way
1 replies 0 reposts 21 likes
|
Jeshk0
@jeshk0.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“so which militia have you joined up with?” “…” “not taking it very seriously, are you?”
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Ordo Templi Ultra
@occulttradeunion.bsky.social
[ View ] |
What are you doing instead other than spreading awareness of your own opinions?
1 replies 1 reposts 4 likes
|
Hellvetika
@hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social
[ View ] |
So this is the "crying about it" I hear so much about.
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
Charles Dainoff
@charlesdainoff.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They’re rooting for the end of democracy just like the dt people
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
aheago to the polls
@chemotaxis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
hey what happened to all those guys who busted out the guillotines anyways. I'll just assume they lived long prosperous lives during which their heads stayed on the whole time.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Koga Shuko
@please.shutup.dad
[ View ] |
Yeah, I don't suffer that shit anymore. Get out the guns and storm the fuckin' Bastille already or shaddap
0 replies 0 reposts 6 likes
|
|
Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
this basically serves the same purpose as QAnon shit on the right. it projects itself as an aggressive form of political engagement, but it’s really just a retreat into fantasy and nihilism
17 replies 47 reposts 826 likes
|
Real American Hombre
@realamericanhombre.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Bring on the guillotines!" [BLM shut down freeways, interrupt Clinton speeches, take over downtown] "uhhh...Not like that."
0 replies 0 reposts 9 likes
|
🏳️🌈A hand-made tortilla chip in a world of Pringles.
@jimyoull.bsky.social
[ View ] |
guillotines don't use balls
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes