• jtrek@startrek.website
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        I vaguely remember reading about a nazi who was sentenced to death after nuremburg. He requested to be killed by firing squad, but they told him no. Firing squads are for soldiers. Hanging is for criminals, so he will hang.

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          His assets need to be liquidated first and distributed to everyone, he should be made to watch himself lose everything.

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    24 days ago

    Its honestly disgusting how we treat indirect murder through layers of corporate greed differently than straight up shooting/stabbing someone.

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    Even the tech bros know what we SHOULD do to them. I think they are just as amazed as all of us that they can get away with whatever they want.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    Never forget: Elon Musk is a teenage troll from the time the internet was most fertile to them, who happened to become the world’s richest man.

    Sure, he has the power to go with it now and seems hell-bent on using it, which makes him much more dangerous than any mere troll.

    We really need to take people like him at their word when they talk about hanging people, but otoh we must remember that they’re nothing but whiny trolls and bullies who accidentally grew into adults.

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    24 days ago

    as has been the case throughout history

    It’s this sort of statement that really pisses me off. Because proving it wrong takes much more time than it takes to casually throw it down & take root in mindless minds.

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      For reference, this is typically called Brandolini’s law

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law

      I find that dumping a false factoid that is not irrefutable without considerable work is a common tool of capitalists/fascists, just like offloading labor onto masses of workers while taking credit for said work is their way of alienating entire societies

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      I mean since they just casually throw it around, you don’t need to disprove it. Just call it a flat out lie and Elon an ignorant bullshitter with no knowledge of world history.

      Even better ask Grok to criticize it with a simple but convincing language, it will probably do a unreasonably good job of it despite its biased training.

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        I mean since they just casually throw it around, you don’t need to disprove it.

        But certain people just lap this sort of shit up without thinking. It’s got that tasty “way back when everything was better” ingredient.

        ask Grok to criticize it with a simple but convincing language, it will probably do a unreasonably good job of it despite its biased training.

        This might be the best way to answer that - if I ever used Xhitter.

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      Hanging wasn’t the preferred method of capital punishment and it certainly wasn’t confined to murders nor was it only used when there was 100% certainty.

      I would say the most common hangings were the lynching of black people in the US. But even that saw competitive use of guns and automobile or horse drags. Nor was guilt firmly established prior to the given cases.

      The issue with addressing it is there’s m too large of a surface area that can be misdirected to some other part of it.

    • Chiahna@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      24 days ago

      Yes, we don’t hang rich and important people, they should not mix with common rabble. That’s why we have guillotines! 😈

      • i_need_your_bones@piefed.social
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        Ironically this comment is entirely against the concept of the guillotines which were invented to ensure equality in executions. Whether noble or common we all got the quickest death, beheading. No more of the terrible, cheaply made hanging stands which wouldn’t break the neck thus slowly strangling the punished.

        Much less wood needed for a guillotine as you don’t need a platform for the drop. Less metal working, as nails are harder to make than a single large metal blade. Less workers as it can be built by one guy.

        Equality In death.

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          Nails are stupidly easy to make compared to a large sheet of metal. I wouldn’t call most guillotine head separators blades. The sharpness doesn’t matter, as long as the thing weighs enough, it will slice through. The diagonal matters more than the sharpness.

          I can make you a nail in 4 hits of a hammer, and I’m not a good smith. I know masters that can do it in 3 hits.

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            Ah shoot, thanks for the correction. I was told by a history major a while back that casting the blade would be cheaper and easier than the nails needed for a hanging platform so forgive my lack of knowledge. Your explination makes sense apologies for the likely misinfo

            Last thing, as for sharpness, they were supposed to be sharpened and maintained sharp by the excecutioner. I assume that this wasn’t always the case but it was the standard. Executioners even usually owned multiple guillotines so that they could cycle through them when they wore down, repairing and maintaining the ones not in use

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      More importantly, they were mostly brown. We all know how Apartheid Musk feels about those people.