Comment by emtel
1 day ago
> Guillotine for the super rich
Can we not glorify mass executions on HN please? Bluesky is available if that's your thing.
1 day ago
> Guillotine for the super rich
Can we not glorify mass executions on HN please? Bluesky is available if that's your thing.
The guillotine remark resonates in today reality because people feel this scam. Tone-policing the symptom while ignoring the cause is naive.
The C15 thread shows exactly why: It beats modern trucks in pure utility. Today we are paying more for less value.
It is exactly the wealth extraction Ray Dalio describes in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order (Stage 5 of the debt cycle), resulting in internal conflict.
When did hacker news become so right wing that saying the French revolution was a good societal movement is seen as "glorifying mass executions"? lmao
Liberty Leading the People would probably be flagged as highly NSFW too.
You… might want to read more about what happened during the French Revolution, after they killed all the royalty.
To be fair, they killed a lot of people before killing the royalty as well. And then, when you dig a bit deeper, you realise that the royalty did quite a bit of the killing itself, just shortly before. It's amazing, it's almost like History does not happen in a. vacuum, and events depend on the cultural context and other events that happened previously.
I'm not sure you have to be terribly right wing to say that a "societal movement" which includes something called "The Reign of Terror", in which tens of thousands of people were executed, was a bad thing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Reign_of_Ter...)