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      3 months ago

      With gold leafs being “accessible” this time around you can have gold plated guillotines to make the class feel more at ease with the familiar surroundings and whatnot.

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        Bespoke and refined, the new 2026 Guillotine delivers the gilded age experience humanity deserves

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          Will there be AI branding on the sides of it too?

          (It will also be like a lil help for the future historians & students.)

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      Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane and criticize it for its irreversibility. They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, or has a brutalization effect, discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a “culture of violence”. There are many organizations worldwide, such as Amnesty International, and country-specific, such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whose main purpose includes abolition of the death penalty.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment

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        3 months ago

        It’s a short hand to holding the monsters on charge accountable. I don’t think those in charge care about any sort of law. You have the make the point visceral

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      Look back in 80-year blocks to 1946, 1866, and 1786, etc and you’ll see a repeated pattern where the established order collapses and the monsters fill the vacuum.

      What makes today different is that tech has created a post-truth environment that dissolves shared reality, making it much harder to kill the monsters and build a consensus than it was previously.

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    Particularly apt this weekend, with the post-WW2 rules based international order being fed to the wood chipper.