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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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        21 hours ago

        Iran kicking USA’s ass, Ukraine kicking Russia’s ass, MAGA disillusioned, evil fuckers are mask-off, no one trusts the institutions and elites. EU and NATO united, things are actually sort of going unexpectedly in the right direction, after the omega-morons messed up their own countries.

        Original Iran dictator and leadership are also dead, too bad protests won’t continue.

        Recent protest overthrew a corrupt government, Orban loses voters after Vance endorses him, the whole AI thing starting to collapse, the Epstein files showing how both sides have been played.

        Did I mention data centers are getting targeted? Oil instability caused an irreversible shift towards renewables, Warehouse burned by disgruntled worker, Zohran won the Nyc election.

        Here we go! Team humanity’s counter-offense begins!

      • Grapho@lemmy.ml
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        9 hours ago

        yeah, I can’t believe we’ve almost gone through a third of the year already what the fuck

  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    “There are two classes”

    A tall young man with a supercilious expression, dressed in the uniform of a student, was leading the attack.

    “You realise, I presume,” he said insolently, “that by taking up arms against your brothers you are making yourselves the tools of murderers and traitors?”

    “Now brother,” answered the soldier earnestly, “you don’t understand. There are two classes, don’t you see, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. We——”

    “Oh, I know that silly talk!” broke in the student rudely. “A bunch of ignorant peasants like you hear somebody bawling a few catch-words. You don’t understand what they mean. You just echo them like a lot of parrots.” The crowd laughed. “I’m a Marxian student. And I tell you that this isn’t Socialism you are fighting for. It’s just plain pro-German anarchy!”

    “Oh, yes, I know,” answered the soldier, with sweat dripping from his brow. “You are an educated man, that is easy to see, and I am only a simple man. But it seems to me——”

    “I suppose,” interrupted the other contemptuously, “that you believe Lenin is a real friend of the proletariat?”

    “Yes, I do,” answered the soldier, suffering.

    “Well, my friend, do you know that Lenin was sent through Germany in a closed car? Do you know that Lenin took money from the Germans?”

    “Well, I don’t know much about that,” answered the soldier stubbornly, “but it seems to me that what he says is what I want to hear, and all the simple men like me. Now there are two classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat——”

    “You are a fool! Why, my friend, I spent two years in Schlüsselburg for revolutionary activity, when you were still shooting down revolutionists and singing ‘God Save the Tsar!’ My name is Vasili Georgevitch Panyin. Didn’t you ever hear of me?”

    “I’m sorry to say I never did,” answered the soldier with humility. “But then, I am not an educated man. You are probably a great hero.”

    “I am,” said the student with conviction. “And I am opposed to the Bolsheviki, who are destroying our Russia, our free Revolution. Now how do you account for that?”

    The soldier scratched his head. “I can’t account for it at all,” he said, grimacing with the pain of his intellectual processes. “To me it seems perfectly simple—but then, I’m not well educated. It seems like there are only two classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie———”

    “There you go again with your silly formula!” cried the student.

    “——only two classes,” went on the soldier, doggedly. “And whoever isn’t on one side is on the other…”

    • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      21 hours ago

      Very nervous about this. I don’t trust Canada to not do some “set an example” type shit. You can get away with almost anything until you start talking shit about your employer violating your rights.

  • Hohsia [any]@hexbear.net
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    Has the right spirit, but I’m sure the company that owns the warehouse has insurance and will just cash out

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      Well actually getting a huge insurance payout isn’t guaranteed as they’re gonna fight it tooth and nail, and also fuck the insurance company too.

      And even if they get the payout there’s no way it recoups the total lost revenue from harder to measure costs that come from such a large disruption.

      And then of course insurance premiums go up…

        • AF_R [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Don’t intend to dogpile I just must share this information to the people

          Ontario is warehouseland. Without warehouses, there is nothing. It is the central logistics point for the entire West coast and Southwest. Ships come into Long Beach, goods go into these warehouses, and get in trucks to go across America. It is by the port (relatively) but land is cheaper than in LA.

          This warehouse was probably the only supplier of those Kimberly Clark products for this entire side of the country. I used to work that account.

          Fuck insurance that’s not even an afterthought right now. The losses from stretched supply chains and customers moving to competitors in desperation are going to hurt for years.

          Where are those containers from overseas going to get loaded? Where are those trucks going to pick up product? Where is every business in 600 miles going to get their paper towels, toilet paper, and other paper products?

          Where and when are they even going to open a replacement DC?

          This is an unmitigated disaster for KC.

          • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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            21 hours ago

            This is an unmitigated disaster for KC.

            Capital will adapt so fast it will make your head spin. Watch.

            This firebug has created so much opportunity and presumably just given a liquid cash injection to a bunch of porkies. He’s a job creator for real.

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      Even if the insurance covers all of it the premiums are sure as shit going way up and also the company was dealt a huge infrastructural blow that will take months if not years to rebuild.

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      21 hours ago

      Ah yes, the “they are invulnerable because magic bullshit that does not exist” trick.

      No, everything has limits, and damage on this scale will quickly reveal them.

    • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Right, it’s relentless organized campaigns of strike, blockade, sabotage etc. or credible threat of same that moves the needle towards making wage theft uninsurable
      sicko-crowd cool-zone porky-scared (the precinct is profits in this diagram)