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
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?
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…
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.
Yeah unions are a better deal for everyone. I hope the business owners come around to that as workers acting on discontent increases
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.
They should have paid him enough to live
He could have done this good deed and gotten away with it if only he just shut the fuck up but he had to flap his gums.
The article mentions surveillance video of him lighting a fire so probably not haha.
I don’t know what this is… but I know I can’t stop looking at it 😭
Wow, the number of americans I respect and aren’t feeble whiny losers has just doubled!
You respect Americans?
Two of them now if you read the comment
I don’t know about you all, but I didn’t see nothin’.
Wareluigi
“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.
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.
“Our values” and “our way of life” sound so strange. Especially since “best goods and services” is a crock of shit. 😂
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.”
Which provides the best goods and services to the most people
Those are human rights in other countries.
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.
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.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that commerce and capitalism are the same thing.
I was never great at history, but I seem to recall Alexander Hamilton being a big supporter of capitalism.
How’d things end for Alex?
I dont know what he’s even trying to say. He’s coming after employees that want to be paid more?
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.
Hes a slaver
How dare they demand a living wage? Why, it’s unAmerican!
No it wasn‘t.
What’s next? The wealth have to tremble in their yachts.
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!
And, in their bunkers, and on their islands, and hopefully first in their boardrooms. I wonder what they’re saying to each other.
Very thin line between “I’m safe in my bunker” and “I’m trapped in my bunker.”
“we cannot get out: the end comes soon we hear drums drums in the deep. They are coming”
To be safe, it should be a fairly thick line… of concrete.
He could have been part of a unionization effort, instead he chose violence, harmed his peers, and took away that possibility.
Companies fought to nullify unions. It’s the companies’ fault people don’t just join unions and negotiate anymore.
Hi, my name is (whatever the fuck your disappointed parents named you) and I don’t understand a lick about context, history, or why my one-off attempt at sounding smart comes off like I couldn’t find my own ass with two hands and a map.
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.
How is that different that now? Everyone is out of a job, the warehouse is closed, and those jobs aren’t coming back.
Yes, but now the owners get nothing either.
And more importantly, the other owners of other companies have two brilliant examples of what can happen when you continue to fuck with workers: If you are lucky, workers will only burn all your shit to the ground. If you’re unlucky, you get Luigi’ed. EITHER WAY, THE NEXT BUSINESS OWNER WILL THINK TWICE ABOUT CUTTING WAGES AND FUCKING WITH WORKERS.
That’s the benefit for all. You just have to be capable of thinking about someone other than yourself.
The next owner will think twice about using American labor for sure, we can agree about that.
I can’t tell if you’re being deliberately obtuse or if you’re just thick-headed.
By chance are you a conservative?
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.
Dems were never going to save me, they already proved that the last 30 years.
If you unionize the location mysteriously becomes unprofitable and they have to shut it down leaving everyone without a job. If you burn it down, the location closes leaving everyone without a job. But costing the bastards who can’t spare the profit to pay their workers a fair wage Millions. The arrangements of the unions was never please please Mr Boss Man can we be allowed to live too. It was paying us a fair wage or you might wake up dead in your own bed.
Or maybe he tried that first. You don’t know.
He filed a lawsuit in 2024 against his former employer, PrimeFlight, alleging unpaid wages and missed break times.
Sounds like he chose the right course of action every step of the way.
