• enphurgen@lemmy.world
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    No one was harmed and he got his point across. Keep up the good fight Americans, show them how much youre suffering under this regime and dont let the corporations/billionaires win

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      Even comments-section of fox news was supporting it. Well, mainly calling it a fire-insurance scam, but I think conspiracy theories is how fascists express their love?

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    paying a living wage is cheaper than trying to quell a labor uprising.

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    A desperate and enraged man will not be reasonable.

    FUCK YOU KIMBERLEY-CLARK. You’re a shitty employer.

    This hurt the share price, for a day anyway…

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    For those yelling about Unions being better than what this guy did:

    Unions were always the compromise. We’ve watched as corporations fight tooth and nail against unions, even closing locations and laying people off to quash them. Our union protections in the US are pathetically weak, especially with the current regime.

    Workers used to get beaten and threatened when they tried to advocate for better conditions. Eventually workers would start burning down their workplaces like this guy. In extreme cases they would kill the factory owner or foreman. If the conditions are unbearable and voices aren’t being heard, people will get desperate and do unthinkable things.

    For their sake, let’s hope the business and corporate types remember this before the bread or circuses run out.

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      Yeah unions are a better deal for everyone. I hope the business owners come around to that as workers acting on discontent increases

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      For their sake, let’s hope the business and corporate types remember this before the bread or circuses run out.

      They do, and they will try and do just enough to not get killed.

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    Wow, the number of americans I respect and aren’t feeble whiny losers has just doubled!

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    “Look, America is founded on free enterprise and capitalism,” said Bill Essayli, the first assistant United States attorney for the central district of California, during the press conference. “Anyone who attacks our values, our way of life, our system, which provides the best goods and services to the most people, we’re gonna come after aggressively.”

    What a thing to say.

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      All Property Matters!

      They don’t give a fuck about people, but they do give a fuck about their assets.

      And that’s why it’s perfectly acceptable to do whatever the fuck you want to these people’s assets. Burn it all to the ground if that’s your vibe.

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      “Our values” and “our way of life” sound so strange. Especially since “best goods and services” is a crock of shit. 😂

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        Those first two translate to me as “Remember I hate the same people you do, so it’s OK to struggle while I keep more money. I donate to Republicans, you know.”

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      He’s saying their values are everyone’s values. “Our way of life” is trying to rally us to his side–“rally around the flag”–to divide us against ourselves. It works pretty well with MAGA, and they all know it.

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      I don’t think he’s right about America’s founding ideas. Free enterprise, maybe. But capitalism is a different beast, and only came to America much later. The young country’s first taste of real capitalism was the East India Company and their tea trading business. And look how they reacted to that.

      I don’t think capitalism was what the USA’s founding fathers had in mind at all. I do think the linguistic conflation of “free market” with “capitalism” is an intentional large scale psy-op designed to make people forget that. And it’s working.

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      I dont know what he’s even trying to say. He’s coming after employees that want to be paid more?

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      Those mansions and bunkers and yachts and private jets all require a surprising amount of working class labor to maintain. Often dozens of employees. The distribution center in the OP only had 8 employees at the time of the fire, so it would be comparably safer!

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      And, in their bunkers, and on their islands, and hopefully first in their boardrooms. I wonder what they’re saying to each other.

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    Based, but also selfish as fuck with all their coworkers out of work.