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It would appear there's currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased

Video in action hosted here

https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154wiwk/admins_clearly_messing_with_things/

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[–] sejoki@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fuck u/spez all the way, but I think the guillotine is a bit too much.

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago

Dragging a physical guillotine out onto the lawn of Steve's house might be a bit much. Maybe. But this is a purely graphical, metaphorical depiction of people's frustration. It's not a real death threat.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, kinda what makes it interesting :) They are leaving the entire rest of the fuck spez alone.

I wonder how this is being spun internally.

[–] sab@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I doubt it, of course the French community would build a guillotine. It's as French as baguette.

[–] islandofcaucasus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's the French way of handling dictators. It's historical