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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay4kb/guillotine-emoji-unicode
When you want to express your complete rage at the incompetence of leadership over text, in a way that says "I would like to see their heads removed at the neck with a large falling blade and rolled into little baskets" but less literal and more succinct, an emoji would help a lot.
Sadly, there is no guillotine emoji, despite "guillotine them" being the ruling sentiment of the pissed-off proletariat for the last... well, probably many years, but more lately, as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests around the world.
Lisbon-based artist Carrozo is lobbying the Unicode Consortium to include a guillotine in its next emoji update, and has sent an application outlining why the people need the 18th century execution machine in their emoji lexicon.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @02:56PM
Did you read the summary or the article for the justification used by the promoter of this emoji?
I don't think we need to add another shitmoji for the purpose of having a new one character equivalent of a mob-inciting hashtag.
This is not a neutral emoji that we've all been needing to discuss our daily chores of home guillotine maintenance. Perhaps you would like for the Unicode consortium to add a new bloody severed head emoji with a knife on the neck? It's just a picture. Maybe it could serve as a localized equivalent of the guillotine for Muslim countries. Surely we all could use this.