• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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      Heroes aren’t always good people. Their reasons are lost to time to the average person, but the message is remembered. The actions supersede the reason.

      Guy Fawkes is not remembered as a person, he’s remembered as a figure.

      Not calling this a good thing.

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        I mean immediately sure but in reality he was just an early al-qaeda prototype trying to spread his religion by blowing people up

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          Yeah… Of all the antigovernment people to latch onto it’s vaguely unfortunate that we landed on fawks. Like, I do get that it’s a pop culture reference more than an actual historical reference, but still.
          There was legitimate persecution of Catholics in England at the time, so it doesn’t least have a veneer of fighting tyranny, but he didn’t even actually succeed.

          Shoulda gone for Louis Lingg. A bit more modern, and had the awesome criminal defense that “it’s his right to fill his house with dynamite”.

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      every folk hero, just as, for instance, any of the national myths, are mostly entirely made up, and as more time passes, the less historical truth remains. This, simply speaking, is folklore, that has nothing to do with actual history, its more about communicating ideas and ideologies, that you imply with the story you’re making up, tying it up to real historical characters is just a way of cheap advertisement. I believe, we must not ever forget that, as we are destined to have lots of useless fights otherwise.

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        Between Anonymous, Occupy, and proud boys all using the same mask, the only shared symbolism for the Guy Fawkes mask is really “resistance” of some kind. Which is so broad, it’s hard to call it a symbol at all.

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          Did the Proud Boys not understand that the government V opposed was homophobic, Islamophobic, and hyper-christian? Did they not understand that the movie has multiple gay heroes? Did they not understand it was directed by trans women? The Proud Boys aren’t V! They’re the Party!

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      You guys know what V was trying to make happen, right? RIGHT?!

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    Is this what the cops are saying he changed his clothes into now?

    They ought to start calling him the clean assassin with how frequently he changes clothes.

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    Can someone share the origin of this meme? (The hooded smiling man) I can’t find anything on Know Your Meme and it’s everywhere.

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        Thanks, but weird that we are making memes about a criminal.

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          Yes - it’s true the healthcare CEO had more blood on his hands than the shooter, but that’s no reason to refer to the CEO as a criminal!

          He was just a greedy, unethical monster who lived off the largess of others’ suffering.

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            To the extent that he wasn’t a criminal it’s only because our government is too corrupt to make his actions illegal.

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            Killing the CEO will change nothing, the solution is to add regulations to healthcare companies, including jail penalties if necessary.

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              Some companies have already backed away from some of their more predatory stuff… so it did have an effect.

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          The man he killed was a thousand times more criminal than the shooter.

          The shooter may be a criminal, but he significantly reduced the total criminality of this world.

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          I love the double morale of some people with the meme templates.

          Lots of people encouraging others to stop using the guy at the “change my mind” meme because that person is bad but it’s ok to use a literal criminal (the one that killed the CEO of a company)?

          I didn’t know that killing was considered a good action depending if the one dead is rich or not. /s

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            Oh won’t somebody think of the hyper rich oligarchs exploiting sick and dying people for profit?!?!?!

            Buddy, bootlicking the billionaires won’t make them reconsider denying your insurance claim.

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      Look up Guy Fawkes. I don’t remember all the details but I think he was some French guy who got executed for something.

      Unless you’re talking about that specific person wearing that outfit in which case he’s from the movie V for Vendetta with Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving.

      Edit: I don’t know how to read.