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 (DIR) Post #AwMIfi0G4cwbkuEev2 by tryst@fedi.imu.li
       2025-07-21T12:47:40.596470Z
       
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       guillotines are authoritarian.if you’ve reached the point where you can round up the rich, perhaps hold trials, then lay them down one by one, and decapitate them in front of a crowd? you’ve already won, and are now showboating the power you’ve collected.it is understandable, even for anarchists, to fantasize about “our side” wielding such power, given the authoritarianism pervading our societies. but we strive to disperse power, not to wield it, and power fantasies do not promote that.if those fantasies are helpful for you in the moment? have them. write about them. talk about them. process them. but, if you aspire to disperse power, please keep them, and the symbols from them, out of your activism.