...annnd they're plastic
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...annnd they're plastic
Pitchforks and torches were best "weapons" a peasant had lying around that they could grab.
What I am trying to say is get your guns.
Funny enough us being able to afford a guillotine is in their best interest because alternatives include badly sharpened sticks, closest rock we find, and bare fucking hands.
Hungry dogs. Don't forget, we have a lot of options.
Lol. Like we paying for shit at that point.
Five finger discounts are always a good sale
According to Time in 2011, the protesters' adoption of the mask had led to it becoming the top-selling mask on Amazon.com, selling hundreds of thousands a year. Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns Warner Bros. and DC Comics, owns the rights to the image and is paid a fee with the sale of each copyrighted mask.
Also, notably, Guy Fawkes was in no way anti-establishment or anti-monarchy, and was certainly not an anarchist. Fawkes (and his group) wanted to replace a Protestant monarch with a Catholic one.
Good movie though
The movie was well produced and I think it delivers the intended message within its self-contained universe, but... considering that the entire story is framed in the context of the Gunpowder Plot, from beginning to end, I think that message is muddled when you understand the actual history behind it.
But the movie is about the fact that a man can become an idea, and once an idea, can no longer be a man. V cannot have love, because he has made himself into an idea and that idea is not compatible with the desires he feels in his heart. Just the same, the idea of Guy Fawkes does not require the consent or approval of the man.
Very true, but as the movie says it's a symbol. "Symbols are given power by people" and Guy Fawkes as a symbol is no longer tied to his historical actions. It symbolizes the character V, revolution, and the power of people to make change.
In much the same way a swastika means Nazi. Theres always that one guy that will tell you its an ancient symbol that means peace, but show anyone on the planet and they'll say its a nazi thing.
This symbol says "I want to blow people up for God!"
Symbols should be chosen with more care, and not adopted from movies or comic books.
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Like selling shovels in a gold rush
GPUs while AI enshitification.
Folks, I’d like to remind every that history is written by the winners.
I call bullshit. Of course a historian would tell you that writing history doesn't make you a loser.
Always consider the source. taps forehead
Nothing forces guns to hold their value like tighter gun laws. I know collectors that get excited about it.