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[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I have a suggestion!

One of these puppies will chew through literally anything, and you can run it as slow as you want as you feed them in feet first!

Alternatively we could also use the ~~Wall Street~~ Brazen bull

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've actually seen and helped to operate one of these connected to a tractor. And I must say that these scare me so much, lol.

[–] plz1@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

That is the proper level of respect for one, as well. They don't discriminate.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 55 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Remember everyone, we haven’t seen the unredacted Epstein files.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We haven’t even seen all of the redacted files. They never released all of them.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

There were terabytes of video as well, likely the most damning of all the evidence

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And remember everyone, if we ever do, there will only be a couple sacrificial lambs that just spend the last 5-15 years of their life delaying through our justice system.

The files are not important at this point. At least not in terms of what actually must be done to enact justice. Every single person with political power or influence is at fault and complacent. The entire Epstein class needs to be purged and their wealth and property seized.

There is really no justice that can be reached outside of a literal revolution.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Feet first!

[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

with the chute emptying into a septic tank so they can be amongst their shitty peers.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tucker and Dale is a gem of a movie!

I wasn't interested in watching it when it came out. Then a friend of mine convinced me to. I'm glad I watched it, so fun.

[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But guillotines are very environmentally friendly.

[–] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

The environmental impact of chipping the rotation class in severely overshadows the difference in the degree of environmental friendliness between these two options. Let's just pick whichever one is most convenient or portable at the time.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 4 days ago

A woodchipper might work but you gotta admit that a guillotine is a good way to get a head...

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 3 days ago

That one night be a little underpowered. You want it to be slow, but not jam up completely. If it takes too long they'll just bleed out.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 11 points 4 days ago

Whenever guillotines are brought up I like to point out that ~90% of the people guillotined during the French Revolution were regular commoners. And the last guy to be guillotined was the guy who had been in charge of deciding who to guillotine next.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

this guy is a little dinosaur

[–] SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app 9 points 4 days ago

Excellent! As long as you start feet-first.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What about the serene and beautiful simplicity of just flinging them from very high cliffs?

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

And we could picnic afterwards

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 7 points 4 days ago

Idk have you seen gas prices these days?

Is there an electric one we can plug in?

[–] darkearth@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

immediate compost

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Having shopped for one of these repeatedly for years and years, the strongest piece of advice I've received is to make sure to not undersized it for your requirements. With chippers, its go big or don't go at all, or you WILL find yourself regretting it, having to shut down the machine to clean it or clear jams, etc. Its just not worth it to get the undersized units. If anything, go oversized for what you think your needs are going to be.

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fun fact, they don’t actually work that well on bodies. Don’t ask how I know.

https://www.rotochopper.com/product/sarlac/

That is a better solution. And it’s electric and quiet.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

LMAO it's called Sarlac

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Fun fact, they don’t actually work that well on bodies. Don’t ask how I know.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Too slow, and too expensive. And, as others pointed out, not environmentally friendly. Also, once they're dead, it's just making more mess to clean up. Also also, we miss the spectacle of the head being held up, and the potential to see the head blink or move the eyes just before death, and the noise would compete with the cheers of the crowd.

I vote for the cheap and reliable guillotine, which can be built by any handyman with a trip to a lumber yard. Line them up, read out their crimes and keep them moving. They just roll down a ramp into a mass grave, toss the head in after the body. Bury them, and build a solar farm on top.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I vote for a big guillotine, but instead of cutting the head off, it cuts them in half along their spine. Oh, and the blade is angled so it starts with the ass. Also, this one goes slowly instead of dropping really fast.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

I'm not for any sort of humane solution here. Any human rights advocate in this place.

Leave immediately.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hear me out though, feet first

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

You wouldn't use one of these, you'd use one of the municipal grade ones that can take 8" branches. Your city already has them, they're powerful, and close at hand.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

That's the important part;

IT MUST BE SLOW.

[–] trashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

No, we need to go way back to the Code of Hammurabi.

Whatever they did to those kids, they will experience before begging to die.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

We need hammurabis code really badly right now. The justice systems across the globe are just not anywhere near just. Israel and the american police forces would be a fine place to start.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

But those freaks would probably like it.

I say hook them up to nutrient IV drips, and put sensory depravation gear on them, and just forget them in the darkness.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't want to risk them enjoying it, how about we feed them a nonpethal dose of EA-3167 first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA-3167

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean the sap from this nightmare of a tree might be a better pick.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How is that better? I read the descriptions, and there was "only" horrible blistering and burning on affected areas and blindness for a few days.

The effects of the aforementioned drug, though:

Incapacitating effects can last anywhere from 5-10 days, sometimes manifesting as a full 3-day peak of vivid hallucinations, along with prolonged confusion, amnesia, and inhibition of speech and cognition. Some subjects exposed to the drug would not fully recover for almost 20 days. Even six months after exposure, a few subjects demonstrated significant increases in the scores on the hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, and mania scales. The drug's potency caught the attention of the military, which considered weaponizing EA-3167 for topical use, potentially even through a handshake.

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[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

While I do enjoy a more natural approach, I don't think they're deserving of a toxic chemical.

I prefer the sweet irony of them being forced to experience the affront to god that their system made.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Irony is good, but if you really want to drag the suffering out then you've gotta out off the carnage until after you've really broken them.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Hence the drug designed by the agency to give you hallucinations described as "unspeakable horrors" with effects that can last for weeks.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

E A DRUGS. ITS IN THE PAIN.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago

I saw the icon pic for this, and thought:

"Dinosaur! Cool!"

[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

YEESSSS FEET FIRST FOR THE EPSTEIN CLASS

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