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If it's about sending a message, then the item itself is the conveyor of the message, not an unrecognizable but more efficient substitute. The guillotine is a recognisable symbol of people rising up and seizing power from the criminal ruling class. It is a warning and a threat.
If you plan on actually executing people, then sure - optimize all you want, or just go with a bullet to the brain.
But as a symbol, the guillotine is powerful.
Ugh? Guillotines are very reliable actually. And it's not that expensive, everything is wood except the large blade. Also, you can't fake an execution, the crowd will be satisfied when they see the head
not that expensive, everything is wood
Oh how times have changed
Don't fix what's not broken
Guillotines are too tame for modern audiences. Wood chippers are fresh and exciting.
Ohhh that's great!
Ton of materials?
It's just a large frame to hold a big knife dropped by letting go of a rope. The hardest thing to get would be the blade, and the whole thing could be constructed in under 2 hours.
Do know what a meme is?
Honestly, some people don't. Assuming op isn't trolling, one of my kids is like this.
Same reason we still "hang up" the phone.
Who is joking?
You can make them modular, with telescoping rails, for portability. The blade needs to be weighted, but the weight can consist of a stack of weights, like on gym equipment. In fact, you could probably repurpose a bench press machine into a guillotine with a few minor modifications.
You can also add jets to make it shoot down faster.
It's called a Smith Machine.
Really smooth action.
Because if we talk about guns and bombs we end up on a list.
Nobody is wanting to build a guillotine. it's simply a symbolic reference to the French Revolution.
Exactly. It's like when people joke "eat the rich". Zero desire for cannibalism, but 100% desire for the rich to be removed from the earth.
Compost the rich.
Excellent solution.
I don't know. I hear the rich are full of toxins and heavy metals.
Compost is usually used to feed vegetables, so I don't think I would want that particular solution.
I would say it might be better to macerate and dehydrate the rich and then use the resultant rich jerky as part of a carbon barrier for depleted uranium and other hazardous radioactive wastes.
I have a desire for cannibalism. I've heard human meat can be pretty tasty when cooked and seasoned just right.
Building is a lot of work. Using one is another story.
I like your approach here of making a clearly wrong statement just to get more activity on this important topic
I will add yet another comment that guillotines are neither complicated nor require much material. you could make a sturdy one with less than a dozen 2x4s, some screws, a scrap piece of rope, and whatever junk metal you have lying around that's around 24x8 (which you need regardless of how fancy the frame itself is)
that said, mobile ones seem like they would also have a purpose
Use a log splitter with a different blade, higher capacity valance and an accumulator for faster action. Strengthen the frame and maybe add a dampener for the end of stroke so things last longer. Reloading ca be controlled by smaller hoses.
Don't log splitters work incredibly slow?
That's not really gonna chop people's heads off, rather it would inexorably pinch their necks until their head falls off.
That's pretty fucking gruesome.
If we're going for gruesome, how about we build a huge version of one of those slicers that they feed vegetables in, and just feed the oligarchs into it.
Gives you the option to feed them head first if you want to show mercy, while still being able to feed them in feet first for someone like Musk.
Then they are cut up into small, easy to compost pieces.
Most wood splinters do move slow but that one (Large valve and accumulator) would make it faster.
if it were up to me, i would use a chainsaw
Are you the type that loves bathing in gore? Because that's what will happen immediately if you start chainsawing people up. They throw everything directly back at the user.
Same reason people have crosses on them. It's a symbol.
I propose we build a large paper cutter style contraption.
Let's make the blade 5 m long so that it's big enough for everyone to see. Also, the blade should be so heavy that it will always chop reliably. You should also put some nice bearings in the pivot point so that it always swings very smoothly.
Oh, but how do we lift a heavy blade like that? If electricity is available, you could have an electric motor to lift it up. If not, you would need some rope and pulleys.
As the blade falls down, it would need to shear the target material to make a clean cut. This means that you can't have a huge gap between the blade and the lower surface it shears against. Just like in paper cutters, the stationary blade needs to be made of steel, but it doesn't have to be super sharp. The gap is important though. Think of the gap between scissor blades and you'll get the idea.
As the contraption will inevitably be contaminated with organic material, it could have an integrated Clean In Place system. After each cycle of operation, the CIP should spray the affected area with cold water and soap. If that doesn't do the job, there would be a second program that uses hot water and soap, which would obviously require more energy.
All that water needs to come from somewhere, so you're going need like an IBC container. If you need more than 1000 l, you might need to use a lorry to deliver enough water. Ideally though, you would operate in an area where you can just connect the contraption to a nearby water outlet. Ask a local a firefighter to help you out.
Also, all of that water needs to go somewhere too, so I would recommend operating it in a place where there's a sewer near by.
If you're planning to operate in remote locations, I would recommend building it into a detachable lorry bed. You know those things with a hook loader. This way, you can move the machine easily to wherever you need and even lower it to the ground where it's easier to operate.
Hold on, what was the question again? Got carried away by the logistics of all of this.