Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within a warehouse?
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Luigi Day Parade on December 4th float/balloon ideas:
- Handsome Sweater Guy Balloon
- Burning Warehouse float
- Face and name wall of billionaires with addresses
- Netanyahu killing Charlie Kirk
- Killdozer
Feels like everyoneβs using the same event to push totally different narratives π¬
the only real narrative that matters is the consensus you and your neighborhood reach. all politics are local first
Amazonβs burning approach to unsold and returned products
While it's fun to believe this is some kind of underground protest by the workers, it is far more likely that the Amazon policy of incinerating unsold goods to sidestep the cost of returns has created enormous fire hazards within their warehouses. This, combined with a chronic short-staffing of facilities, poor maintenance of infrastructure, and excess volume of returned goods due to the increasingly shoddy nature of their 3rd party vendors, puts all the pieces in place for routine self-inflicted arson.
Why not both?
Outside the Toiletry Fire Bandit, I haven't seen any evidence of the former. But as someone who has worked in a warehouse, I've seen ample opportunities for the latter.
Or, the fun approach! These new policies give incendiary devices to those who may want to do more than burn returned product.
How exciting!
I once worked in a real piece of shit warehouse for a real piece of shit company who treated their workers like complete shit, and I regret not setting it on fire. (Briggs and Stratton)
It is the time of the wooden shoes.
Why aren't the sprinker systems working in these warehouses? This is a huge osha violation
That's the truly heinous crime being committed here - putting workers at risk of direct death by lack of fire safety (on top of regular worker abuse).
I think you're missing the point, think of the profits.
It's probably not very profitable to lose the entire warehouse and its contents to an easily preventable fire, either.
I've been wondering about this the entire goddamn time. What a liability lol
Supposedly the guy who filmed it did it tactically. He set small fires and let the fire suppression system run out of water then set larger fires. Not sure about all the other ones.
wait is this really the seventh warehouse fire not known to be accidental in a week? and I'm only just finding out about this now?
It's the media cycle.
They basically see "warehouse on fire" getting a lot of views, so they start reporting on other fires too, disregarding the actual cause of the fire".
Same happens with other stuff too. Statistically this isn't occuring more than normally, but because one occurrence got a lot of views, we see it reported more.
Statistically this isnβt occuring more than normally
I mean, it's hard to say without doing some kind of actual statistical analysis.
If the reporting is purely stochastic, driven by arbitrary changes in click-through habits, then it is very possible that fires are more common and people are more interested because they've been seeing more of them in their neighborhoods. It's also possible that fires are less common and people are curious about them because they're such a novelty.
Idfk. But I wouldn't be quite so blase about an uptick in stories absent any actual baseline of the event.
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There have been a number of warehouse fires, but not all of them are purposeful acts of arson by disgruntled proles.
One of them definitely is, that's the one at a paper warehouse, where the arsonist filmed himself saying "You should've paid your employees enough to live" while filming the blaze.
A couple others seem like they might be copycats but currently remain unconfirmed, and the rest were clearly accidents.
So, there isn't exactly a huge wave of Stochastic, proletarian arsons going on across America. But there clearly is a hunger for a kind of revenge against the wealthy, and this overhyped news cycle is a part of that.
Actual instances of Stochastic terrorism, like the killing of healthcare CEO Brian Thomson, or the recent attacks on the home of Sam Altman, in addition to the one confirmed warehouse arson, are also a part of that hunger for revenge.
That said, instead of doing an individual act of terrorism... Go organize your workplace, join an org, help out your neighbors, and do something more productive. Its not as sexy, but it is more useful.
"Organize your workplace and get collectively laid off"
Don't wanna be pessimistic but it never would've gotten this far is this was as easy as you said.
So, that's not a foregone conclusion, and even if it was, that's not an excuse to not try.
People used to get killed in the United States (and still do in the global south) for trying to unionize. I think you can take on some lighter risks than that
I know this is not exactly the same because I'm talking about a different country, but its still a Warren Buffet business: Honduran textile factories, "maquilas" as we call them, very generally close down entirely and move elsewhere if a union even starts bubbling up. They'll fire entire floors or departments if they suspect someone is trying to start a union, and they specifically keep profiles on people who have been known to get involved in unions and either don't give them jobs or fire then as soon as they realize the history that person has.
I understand it was worse before (well, I don't follow local news that much but I'm pretty sure there was a textile unionists massacre a few years ago, unknown causes, so maybe it's still that bad), but that's enough currently to have absolutely everyone hating unionists in these environments. Pro-union stances can get you in real trouble because of how much that endangers everyone around you and their livelihoods. I.... Don't know how you deal with that, I don't think anyone around here knows either or something would've been done about it by now.
Thank you for your perspective!
I think countries with strong labor movements overcame that in a few different ways:
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in The United States the labor movement was so violent (e.g. The Coal Wars) that the capitalist class found it beneficial to allow limited unionization to prevent further violence and thus harm to their profits.
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In Cuba, China, etc. They had a Socialist Revolution and either liquidated or subordinated their capitalist class to the rule of the workers
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European countries developed strong domestic labor movements and welfare states so neighboring Socialist Countries didn't look like an appealing alternative.
The global south struggles to overcome what you're describing because They're developed enough to have a class consciousness proletariat, so you can't as easily stoke a precarious peasantry to Revolution. And they're under the thumb, but only of domestic capital, but also international capital, so resistingbecomes much more difficult. Surveillance tech and weapons used on people in the imperial core are essentially tested on hyper exploited workers in the global south
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Hey guys whatever you do, don't read Burning Rage of A Dying Planet by Craig Rosebraugh, or Earth Liberation Front by Leslie James Pickering, don't watch Battle in Seattle, or If A Tree Falls or How To Blow Up A Pipeline or Battle of Algiers or The Baader-Meinhoff Complex, and definitely don't search for "Abu Khabbab al Misri filetype:pdf"
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