• turdas@suppo.fi
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    2 months ago

    “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.

    • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      “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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      2 months ago

      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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        2 months ago

        Those anticapitalist shitheads. They should be beaten with billyclubs and have their wages reduced for the pain and suffering they have caused their bosses.

        I assume this is his internal monologue.

  • RedSeries (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    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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      2 months ago

      Yep. The alternative to no unions or worker’s rights is people dragging Jeff Bezos out of his mansion, beating him to death in front of his family, and then burning the house down.

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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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      2 months ago

      No one was physically harmed, but there was financial harm. I wonder how many people lost their job due to the fire and now can’t pay their bills. The town only has 3k people, so I wonder how much of that population worked there.

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        2 months ago

        The hard working warehouse employees will be receiving unemployment. They just got several weeks of PTO.

        The demolition and reconstruction is new work that will be going on for the next few years.

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    2 months ago

    He could have been part of a unionization effort, instead he chose violence, harmed his peers, and took away that possibility.

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      2 months ago

      These companies actively make that unfeesable. They’d spend the extra money to close the location. Claim it was unprofitable. And hire all new ununionized staff elsewhere.

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          The massive amount of product lost and the perfectly good building destroyed?

          Like, the difference is the damage — it’s a very big spectacle and proof that all it takes is 1 person in the right place and you can cause massive damage. The Dems aren’t going to save you if you don’t scare them into saving you.