#GUILLOTINE

[hyperlexichypatia]

If office jobs are miserable, and manufacturing jobs are miserable, and service jobs are miserable, and freelance work is miserable, and being unemployed is miserable, what does that tell you?

How would you look at that situation and conclude "No, it is the workers who are wrong"?

There is functionally no difference between the conservative narrative of "If you don't like getting kicked in the head all day for $7.25 an hour, then quit whining, pull up your bootstraps, go back to school, and get a job getting kicked in the knee all day for $8.00 an hour, you lazy whiner!" and the progressive narrative of "Um, people who get kicked in the knee all day for $8.00 really need to check their privilege, some people would kill for that comfort and security." (Also, what comfort and security? Depending on the office, a worker may be as likely to be a temp with no benefits as a salaried employee).

And the people in the notes saying "Well, you can --" No. "You" cannot. Some few individuals may be able to #lifehack their way into a sufficient source of income that isn't miserable and exploitation-based, but this is not scalable life advice. Labor operates on the same principles of supply and demand as any other commodity. If more people go into your cool niche job with good pay and good working conditions, supply of workers will increase, and that good pay and working conditions will decrease. Just ask everyone who went into nursing or IT in the 2000s. The problem of the power relations between employer and employee are not solvable by "getting a better job."

Anyway, join a union. Stop seeing other workers as your competition. And never be "grateful" for a job. Labor is entitled to all it creates.

loser-ass website that so many people are afraid of a “soulless” office job, when so many people would KILL for that comfort and security. obviously i get not wanting to work in The Mines (retail, service, manufacturing, etc) but the reality is that like 90% of people who don’t work in The Mines have a 9 to 5. so like what are you expecting? to just never work at all or write fanfiction for a living or become like an astronaut princess rockstar because you haven’t changed your answer to “what do you want to be when you grow up?” since kindergarten? i fear the conservatives may have been right about us.

[sissa-arrows]

A lot of you seem to ignore that the guillotine was a colonial tool which is not surprising. So I’m going to tell you the story of the first Algerian moudjahid guillotined during the Algerian war of liberation.

His name was Ahmed Zabana, Allah yarhmou, and he was executed on June 19th 1956. He is famous for multiple reasons not just for being the first moudjahid guillotined. As the wardens were taking him for his execution he wanted the other prisoners to hear him so he kept yelling “I die but Algeria will live! Long live to Algeria!”.

Once he was out placed on the guillotine as the executioner was about to action it Ahmed yelled “Allah Akbar! Long live to a free Algeria!” The executioner actioned the guillotine and it didn’t work. The blade got stuck at the top long before it reached Zabana’s head. The thing is there was a rule that if the blade got stuck before in reached the head aka if the guillotine didn’t work then it was a “sign” and the death penalty was automatically turned into a life sentence in jail. But they still try a second time despite Ahmed’s lawyer telling them they had no right to. Ahmed is still saying the same words and it doesn’t work a second time.

The executioner and the chief of the prison decide to call the French president (Rene Coty) and the Ministry of Justice (François Mitterand aka the same guy some of y’all leftist celebrate and look up to) to tell them what happened and ask them what to do. Once again the LAW said that if it doesn’t work it’s automatically turned in a life sentence so there was NO necessity to call the president or anyone. You don’t ask for permission to RESPECT the law. Coty and Mitterand decide that the executioner must try “until death”. They obey the illegal order.

The executioner tries a third time and it works. Ahmed is killed Allah Yarhmou.

Now some random informations: In 1848 the French law regarding the death penalty was changed for two things. The number of executioners they went from having at least one in each département to having one for all of France + 5 deputies executioners. Algeria was the exception. Executions were so common even compared to other colonies (excluding Kanaky) cause settler colonialism is different, that Algeria was the only “French territory” with its own personal team of French executioners for the indigenous population until the liberation in 1962. That same year executions for political crimes were made illegal. It was made legal again during the Algerian war of liberation in order to be able to execute Algerians who had participated to the resistance but were not accused of killing/attempting to kill settlers.

If you are French you don’t realize how much the Algerian war of liberation shaped the laws that affects you today. For example the State of Emergency that allows the government to restrict citizens rights and ignore democracy and freedom if they consider there is a risk? (État d’Urgence) Created for Algeria. And until 2011 the law actually said that the state of emergency could be declared by France in Algeria… they created the state of emergency in 1955 against Algerians specifically then in 2009 they edited the law to name Kanaky as well but they didn’t remove Algeria and in 2011 they finally removed Algeria but Kanaky is still mentioned. The fifth republic? Created in an attempt to keep Algeria as a colony.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[555019-blog]

It occurs to me only now that maybe the real problem with gun violence this entire time was that we’ve simply been shooting the wrong people….

[childhoodcarnage]

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[tilbageidanmark]

Credit to Edward J. Cabral, who says: Seasons greetings from my family to yours

[sugarybunnie]

[texaschainsawmascara]

guillotine mirror - coffincollector on ig

[kropotkindersurprise]

1941 - Disney animators went on strike after Walt Disney refused to let his workers unionize. The workers were angry about unfair policies on pay and benefits. On the picket line the animators lynched and guillotined an effigy of Walt Disney himself.

After four months Walt Disney caved to the demands and let the workers unionize, striking a deal which included the reinstatement of employees fired before the strike, equalization of pay, a clearer salary structure and a grievance procedure. [source] (this is a remake of a post that was deleted by @staff)

[fatmagic]

[alcrego]

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March 2017.

At SR.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[skf-fineart]

Guillotine earrings commemorating the execution of Louis XVI during France’s Reign of Terror, c. 1793

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