lumpenproletariat$50
sin_free_for_00_daysDon’t know where you’re buying materials, but it would be 4 times that, at least, for the raw materials. Still worth it.
Miles O'BrienHaving built a few medieval contraptions over the years, it’s going to be at least $100 for the wood alone (and that’s if you use 2x4s), and the blade will probably be around $50 for just the steel.
Guillotines can be a little finicky if you’re not careful during the building. It’s a decent bit of weight slamming down, it needs to be on-track and aligned with itself or you might end up lodging the blade into the frame.
Country of origin is irrelevant, you use the materials you have available.
I was just making a joke about measurement systems and that US people have a weird kink with 2x4. As if the whole US is built on those. Including the Statue of Liberty.
They’re not even 2x4, we straight up lie about it! They’re 1.5in x 3.5in.
Not the ENTIRE US but most modern homes are built with 2x4s, so in a way, the US is kind of built with them.
SternTrue to form I would’ve pegged it a fair amount higher then 200 bucks as well, somewhere in the grand range.
Gotta figure a gun and bullets is going to be cheaper until you start getting into triple digits, though the guillotine has a certain aesthetic.
WIZARD POPE💫Guilottine can kill all the billionares and rulling class for just a 1 time investment. A gun you have to keep buying ammo. At some point the guillotine wins. And worst case you could go to the scrapyard to get the steel for the blade and into the forest to get some wood to make the structure. Might not be as nice and all but should still chop off heads.
CommiunismI love it when “anti-capitalist” left glazes capitalist revolutions and their iconography (guillotines), as if toppling of aristocracy and replacing them by rule of capital hasn’t been the status quo for ~150 years at this point
The French revolution was not to install capitalism, it was for increased freedoms, republicanism, and liberal democracy. It was without a doubt a step in the right direction away from autocratic rule, that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the line journey for liberation hence why calls for continuing the class war are made. The guillotine is merely a symbol for that, besides everyone knows these days we advocate for the wood chipper.
No, it was a literal bourgeois revolution where, in an alliance with underclasses in a popular movement, the bourgeois class revolted against the upper classes of the time in an attempt to destroy feudal social relations and allow capitalism to grow more freely (which these relations harmed).
The liberal freedoms were also, in practice, freedoms for the propertied and the wealthy. This meant no more legal privileges or barriers between people if they wanted to start a business or something (as long as you have enough wealth to actually do it), weakening of the state power meaning that the powers that be can’t just suddenly change taxes, grant monopoly or confiscate property without due process, etc…
As I said, it was historically progressive but not anymore, and calling for guillotines is essentially calling for a replacement of capitalist rule by capitalist rule.
calling for guillotines is essentially calling for a replacement of capitalist rule by capitalist rule.
That is ridiculous.
Guillotines are a general calling for revolution against the ruling classes, it is not specifically calling the French revolution.
Next generation will ask - what did you do in your guillo-teens?