• Juice@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

    I see no way anyone could ever make out the identity of the supposed “arsonist”. Video clearly heavily edited by ai and crooked cops. Even if there is an individual implicated in, what is most likely an electrical fire due to negligence on the part of the company, that individual should receive ample compensation for their trauma from the company who mis manages these hellish working conditions.

    Ruling out some electrical fire, or perhaps a frame up insurance scam that benefits the company (likely), I think the actual cause of the fire will go down as one of the great unsolvable mysteries.

  • FatherPeanut@pawb.socialEnglish
    31·
    8 hours ago

    Honestly the most surprising thing to me was that this sorta action doesnt happen more often. Like, this is easy for people to do when angry, and definitely sends a message to someone. Now, it’ll be the insurance company that foots the bill at the end of the day, so the specific company owning it won’t quite receive the full message of it, but y’know.

    Also constructive criticism. Maaayybeee risking the lives of possible hundreds to thousands isn’t quite the best idea? Like I know some people would argue it was funny some rich guy’s eating his shit, but if you do wanna ‘send a message’, this guy put his workers outta a job, risked their wellbeing, and that fire coulda spread. Compare that to Luigi Magione, who’s only collateral damage was my health insurance costs going down for a few months.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Not exactly thousands.

      I was watching the news as it happened and there were 20 employees onsite, all safely evacuated. One firefighter was injured, not seriously. Nobody lives there, it’s all warehouses, and at night they’ll have minimum staff. So in terms of harm to ordinary people it’s pretty minimal.

      Mainly loss of livelihood for the 20 workers, but honestly it’s on the boss to redistribute them to help with the shift of orders through other warehouses. At least they should get any severance and paid days off they’re owed, and set up for worker’s comp.

      LAFD firefighters are professional and paid, so it’s not calling a bunch of volunteers away from their jobs either.

      Paper goods evidently burn really well but they apparently didn’t produce toxic fumes, or there would have been some warnings about it.

      I’m not endorsing this kind of action, but it’s not like he set a nursing home or chemical plant on fire.

      Or bombed a girls’ school full of children.

    • searabbit@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      7 hours ago

      Honestly the most surprising thing to me was that this sorta action doesnt happen more often. Like, this is easy for people to do when angry, and definitely sends a message to someone.

      Also constructive criticism. Maaayybeee risking the lives of possible hundreds to thousands isn’t quite the best idea?

      I’m not sure these two ideas are compatible. People who are impulsive enough to do something like this are not planning it perfectly to not inconvenience or endanger anyone else.

  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    8 hours ago

    Good, but it’s better to just shoot billionaires in the head. Destroyed property and goods is a huge waste and people will definitely lose jobs because the warehouse is gone.