• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    3·
    29 minutes ago

    Pitchforks and torches were best “weapons” a peasant had lying around that they could grab.

    What I am trying to say is get your guns.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    2·
    51 minutes ago

    Funny enough us being able to afford a guillotine is in their best interest because alternatives include badly sharpened sticks, closest rock we find, and bare fucking hands.

  • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    6 hours ago

    According to Time in 2011, the protesters’ adoption of the mask had led to it becoming the top-selling mask on Amazon.com, selling hundreds of thousands a year. Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns Warner Bros. and DC Comics, owns the rights to the image and is paid a fee with the sale of each copyrighted mask.

    22698

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      13·
      4 hours ago

      Also, notably, Guy Fawkes was in no way anti-establishment or anti-monarchy, and was certainly not an anarchist. Fawkes (and his group) wanted to replace a Protestant monarch with a Catholic one.

      • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Very true, but as the movie says it’s a symbol. “Symbols are given power by people” and Guy Fawkes as a symbol is no longer tied to his historical actions. It symbolizes the character V, revolution, and the power of people to make change.

        • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          43 minutes ago

          In much the same way a swastika means Nazi. Theres always that one guy that will tell you its an ancient symbol that means peace, but show anyone on the planet and they’ll say its a nazi thing.

        • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          46 minutes ago

          This symbol says “I want to blow people up for God!”

          Symbols should be chosen with more care, and not adopted from movies or comic books.

        • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          39 minutes ago

          The movie was well produced and I think it delivers the intended message within its self-contained universe, but… considering that the entire story is framed in the context of the Gunpowder Plot, from beginning to end, I think that message is muddled when you understand the actual history behind it.