“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.
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 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!
“Our values” and “our way of life” sound so strange. Especially since “best goods and services” is a crock of shit. 😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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paying a living wage is cheaper than trying to quell a labor uprising.
Most American firms would rather pay lawyers to fuck their employees over, than pay their employees more.
Recreational Equipment Incorporated Co-operative are closing a flagship store in Manhattan rather than deal with a union.
America hates Americans.
This is what they learned after the rise of unions. Unionization was the compromise they made to stop angry workers dragging owners into the streets and beating them to a pulp. They've forgotten those lessons.
they legislate laws to weaken labor protections and pay instead of the "pinkertons":
Also cheaper than the loss of stock, rebuild costs, and loss of income while rebuilding a warehouse. Some of it will be insured, but not all.
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 are how fascists express their love?
If 9/11 taught us anything it is that there is nothing a man cannot do if he no longer fears the consequences.
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!
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....
I don't know about you all, but I didn't see nothin'.
Wow, the number of americans I respect and aren't feeble whiny losers has just doubled!
They should have paid him enough to live
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