Explanation: “We should bring back the guillotine” or similar is a common internet quip in response to billionaires doing billionaire things, when in reality the guillotine was invented to provide equal and humane deaths to people of all classes, and from there it was always a tool of the state rather than the people. Not the best euphemism for “we should depose the bourgeoisie.” In fact plenty of Revolutionary justice folks were themselves offed by the guillotine during the Terror.
This meme is spreading misinformation https://theconversation.com/the-french-revolution-executed-royals-and-nobles-yes-but-most-people-killed-were-commoners-200455
I mean, what do you think class war is?
Edit: Open your link, click on the hyperlink of the 20000 number and open the “social incidence” section. It pretty cleanly dismantles the class war interpretation.
complaining about historical inaccuracies while living through a historically significant time where the thing they’re arguing is factually happening