• primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    semantics. you know what I was saying.

    dead little girls in coal mines? there are dead little girls in coal mines instead of prices, or the normal dead people of all ages and genders on the streets I have to fucking walk past every day.

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      29 days ago

      I don’t think I understand. When things are good, there are dead little girls in coal mines?

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          29 days ago

          Ah, I’m unfortunately not familiar with that one. I only know the Guillotines from the French revolution, where they indicated the worst of times.

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            29 days ago

            no, they were the end of the worst of times. the fact that guillotines were a massive improvement is an indicator of how fucking monstrous the centuries of white terror had been.

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              29 days ago

              Ah, so it’s a matter of contrast? The guillotines are a sign of good times, relative to the even worse times before?