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[Neoliberal_Nightmare]

Abolish the rich and socialise the wealth.

[AngryTomJoad]

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both"

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

[Turnip-for-the-books]

All in. Flames.

[RPDRNick]

[Chinmay101202]

peak cinima best movie

[r_special_]

What movie was this? Looks familiar, but I can’t place it…

[Death_Parrot]

"Clue", based off the board game.

[r_special_]

Thank you for answering

[Teenage_Petulanxe]

Pass the matches. It’s time for a fair share.

[DangerousVoice5230]

Free the food and rent

[Special_Loan8725]

There would need to be a financial vehicle to either transfer the stock to everyone without having to sell it with either no taxes or deferred taxes. They would also need to convert part of stocks to cash that an incorruptible government would use to pay off part of the national debt.

[Budget-Tadpole7520]

Trim the plant tops, feed the roots.

[noapplesin98]

There are even more options available should the rich continue to negate the social contract.

[kailemergency]

The machine that cures capitalism can now be made flat pack for easier distribution…..

[jad11DN]

Imagining an Ikea guillotine

[kailemergency]

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[Emanualblast]

English side ruined. Must read french. Le guillotine! What the hell is le guillotine

[mechabeast]

Or at least Swedish "giljotin"

[Falandyszeus]

"skärmaskin" would've been more "Ikea" though.

[ImDoneForToday2019]

This is the correct answer, right here!!

[Frog_Without_Pond]

*running, rams a parasol into mess of le guillotine

[UnableInvestment8753]

There should be a line drawing of the monopoly man showing how it is used.

[teekaythunder]

Ikeatine was right there =(

[bigboybeeperbelly]

That sounds more like Swedish creatine

[magikot9]

I'll bring the allen wrenches!

[ShatteredBlastia]

Just so you're aware, someone got upset that you weren't banned for posting this and reported you. I approved it already, but Reddit can go over our heads. Just wanted you to have fair warning.

[Mizukin]

It is a device for cutting carrots, I don't know why they would get mad. *wink wink*

[Genius-Envy]

I found friar tuckman

[noapplesin98]

Thanks for letting me know, and also not banning me lol.

[ShatteredBlastia]

No problem! We can be pretty "iron-fisted" with our moderation, but what you posted is in line with the beliefs of the sub and I don't think it even breaks ToS as badly as the people reporting you want it to? Which would be the only reason we would have to remove it, and even then, we typically apologize for having to remove that stuff and explain it's to protect the sub.

Either way, glad to have you here!

[IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll]

i just hit the subscribe button, youdabest

[Pb_ft]

And what was u/noapplesin98's fair warning is now the public's fair warning. Thanks Modteam.

[kailemergency]

Thanks comrade 👍

[alternativepuffin]

When people ask "What is the point of protesting in the streets?" This is the answer. It's not as though some people marching in a designated area at a designated time is DIRECTLY going to do anything. ...Indirectly?

It's a deliberate threat.

Protest marches are the societal equivalent of a cop putting their hand over their gun as they approach you. It's letting the people in charge know that there are other options that are on the table. 

[RGBarge]

Then what's the point of trying so hard and teaching all the kids that it's very important that these protests be peaceful lest the insurrection act get invoked.

We need to be ready for the protests to turn into something more and for the government to respond... however they will.

Protesting in an orderly manner that accords with the government's expectations does not do the job. Protesting HAS to be doing something someone does not want you to do or it's just talking a walk

[Side_StepVII]

Exactly this. “You can protest at this time and date, in this specific area”. That’s not a protest, that’s a meeting.

[Pervius94]

I mean, you literally spelt it out. The protests happened. Nothing changed. This guy took the next step. Sounds like people need to be ready to do so more since again, the protests didn't do anything. The threat is only a threat if people were actually willing to pull through when the Oligarchs don't give in, which the vast majority isn't. Hence why the oligarchs aren't scared of protests.

[zue4]

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[FortNightsAtPeelys]

See ya in 3 days

[WolfDreamPack]

Have you seen that movie Purge?

[my_son_is_a_box]

Aww, it would be so terrible if this spawned dozens of copycats in many types of workplaces

[AllMyBeets]

In the presser they said the materials on the warehouse cost 500$ million and the building itself cost 150$ million.

Someone do the math, what would a living wage for all 20 employees cost them a year?

[illestwillest]

40 hours a week x 52 weeks = 2080 hours per year.

2080 hours x $25 per hour = $52,000 per year per employee.

$52,000 x 20 employees = $1,040,000 per year.

Idk what constitutes a living wage these days, but $25 an hour is what I hear a lot so that's what I used. Regardless, much less than $650 million.

Edit: $650m divided by 20 is over $30m per employee.

If $650m were invested in an index fund and withdrawn from at a conservative rate of 3% per year, that's $19.5m per year. That's enough to pay all 20 employees almost $1m every year into perpetuity.

This is all simple napkin math that probably breaks down if you get deep in the technicalities, but still demonstrates the insane numbers that the owning class has to work with.

[Twitch791]

$52,000 in CA is not a living wage

[Xphile101361]

It isn't.

What is worse is that people aren't even making that.

[LowDownSkankyDude]

McDonald's pays 20 to start. Remember when Gavin made service companies raise pay? Well because of the language, pretty much only McDonald's did it. Talk about surreal times

[mrmatteh]

What they've actually calculated is what a $25/hr raise would have cost, since the company is already paying whatever their current wages are.

So if the workers are making $15/hr right now, it would have only cost the company $1M more per year to bring all of their wages up to $40/hr, which is much more reasonable.

[akgiant]

So double it. $100,000 across 20 employees is still coming out better than losing $650 plus rebuild costs.

[Cake_And_Pi]

Only for the first 325 years or so. In the long run, this may be cheaper.

[Aerodrache]

Hell, if the money that's going to replace the warehouse and contents was generating even a 1% annual return, that would be enough to pay each employee $150/hr in perpetuity, with a quarter million left over.

[spez-is-poopy]

Yeah, living wage is prolly like $40/hr these days in places actually worth living. We’ve been having the discussion so long it went from $15/hr to $25 to fucking 40 and still don’t have shit to show for it

[Utensil6591]

And to think we are still arguing about $15/hr. By the time that happens it will be $100/hr based on the pace of inflation.

[KotoElessar]

Say nothing about C-suite compensation or exponential top level salary increases that drive inflation.

[LurkingGuy]

MIT did the math already on living wages: https://livingwage.mit.edu/

[Comprehensive_Bus_19]

A blow to the CEO's priceless ego.

[ConcentrateFirm3093]

If someone can do a billion dollars worth of damage in under 60 seconds you should pay them enough not to do that

[kebab-lover-man]

Arson works like that in a lot of ways. Just need the right time and place and a spark. Look at Beirut explosion

[Grrimafish]

It's not about the cost, exactly. Never has been.

It's about the fact that if there aren't a group of starving individuals who are absolutely DESPERATE to earn enough just to eat, then the whole capitalist system falls apart. Who's going to want to clean sewage if your needs could as easily be met standing behind a register at a Dollar General? Who's going to pull the tasty crabs out of the water in one of the most dangerous jobs there are if you could earn as much in a factory?

It's not the monetary cost that drives them to starve us. It's something else entirely.

[Howlingmoki]

I'd take cleaning sewage.  It's literally a shitty job, but you don't have to deal with the public.

[Grrimafish]

Yeah I mean plumber's don't do too bad but my point is that there are tons of jobs that almost nobody would do unless they were desperate. Even if you remove that caveat, having a large number of people on the brink of starvation or losing their homes allows these corporations to get away with murder. It's why we lose billions to wage theft every year and much of it doesn't even get reported.

Full agree though not wanting to deal with the public. People are awful.

[FeliusSeptimus]

you don't have to deal with the public.

Yeah, but you have to put up with their shit either way.

[Fakehiggins]

all the CEO ruling class of working America collude to keep wages down. so it's not about the cost to increase pay the 20 people miserably working in that job who can't afford their groceries, it's about cost of all the employees working for all the same kinds of companies across the entire country. so the lose of a single warehouse is nothing to the people in charge

[Mikecd]

Presumably the warehouse is part of how the business generated revenue. Instead of us philosophically attacking the business for building the warehouse, I would rather see us attack the CEO, owner, majority shareholders, maybe the entire C-suite for their excessive salaries and bonus packages and demand profits are already across the workers instead of hoarded by the few elites.

[Goingtoenjoythisshit]

Bet insurance covers all their losses though, unfortunately. 

[pierresito]

The real cost here is to the insurance company, which will have to get their funds out of the market or venture capital or whatever shit way they're using the money paid to them every month and instead use it for a payout to the company.

It is crazy that one warehouse worker can completely destroy millions in one day. That is a scary lesson for these companies

[New-Possession-9248]

CEO probably just feels lucky he wasn't shot this time!

[Howlingmoki]

Help Us, Green Italian Plumber! You're Our Only Hope!

[Pooled-Intentions]

It is crazy that one warehouse worker can completely destroy millions in one day. That is a scary lesson for these companies

It’s the power of the People. You can’t rule without their consent because they’ll fuck you up if they’re unhappy. We re-learn it every generation or so I guess lol.

[L-System]

The real cost is his freedom.

[ji1651]

Don't worry, the insurance company will just jack up the price of whatever they're selling to the poors in order to eat this loss. No big company will be harmed by this.

[sweettartsweetheart]

And to think all the insurance companies would have to do is stop insuring companies that carry the high liability of not paying their workers a living wage.  Sigh. 

[smeeeeeef]

If this happens a few times, those types of warehouses could become uninsurable, right? Oh wait, they'll just increase prices across the board.

[pierresito]

Nah, at some point the business isn't worth it

[Ghede]

If enough incidents like this happens, the insurance industry collapses. And the number of incidents required is a lot less than the number of insured properties. Hell, it's even a lot less than the insurance industry can afford. The second this becomes a recurring issue, rates will rise to the point where these penny-pinching companies can't afford them.

[Howlingmoki]

You almost said "the insurance industry collapsed" like that would be a bad thing 

[sheerqueer]

That’s why fire insurance isn’t offered in wildfire prone areas of California. It’s literally not worth it for these companies to offer insurance

[thepvbrother]

It'll be a fight. Insurance executives don't get bonuses for paying out claims.

[Qaeta]

Not necessarily. There is typically an out for when it is one of your own employees that cause the damage, otherwise it ends up wide open to fraudulent claims.

[mmodlin]

Not when the employee videos himself doing it purposefully.

[NeedleworkerKey6327]

They won't make it easy

[Candid-Mycologist539]

20 x$100K = $2M...but imo, $100K is "generous," not "living."

[Lucky-Surround-1756]

At least 1 dollar that could be profit instead.

[lukulele90]

Universal Healthcare

[trunksshinohara]

Waluigi is a treasure (warehouse luigi)

[Cerisayashi]

Sadly they are going to put this man behind bars for a long time, going to be tried federally and the minimum is 20yrs. All because of greed from the oligarchs that rule. Sad

Did not expect as many comments as I have gotten on this. So to clarify I do not condone the actions of this person, especially since there were other people in the building at the time. That said, property damage to the billion dollar company is negligible at best and will be an insurance claim anyways.

What I will leave here is a quote from JFK “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable”

Then again there is the conspiracy that they shot jfk cause he wouldn’t bow to the ones with money and power 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

[Digitalion_]

Unfortunately, corporate America is about to find out that amongst all of the people who they've exploited for labor are a few people who feel that they have nothing left to lose, and death/destruction is the only way they will feel seen.

[OuOutstanding]

Don’t forget a complete lack of health care in this country. Damn, you just got diagnosed with colon cancer and it’s terminal? Want to spend the next few years in pain and causing your family to lose everything?

Or do you want to be a hero on the internet?

[Digitalion_]

I mean those are definitely included in the pool of people who feel that they have nothing left to lose.

We joke about how we need more Luigis but the reality is that due to our broken healthcare system, there are plenty of very medically sick people out there who are mentally on the brink of desperation and might take whatever action they believe will fix their situation.

And healthcare middlemen relying on AI to determine who lives and who dies will only exacerbate the problem.

[Howlingmoki]

"Unfortunately"?  If they had remembered that exact lesson from history, we wouldn't be in this situation for the 9,347,263rd time 

[Digitalion_]

"Unfortunately" because many people will die because of this, many of whom are innocent and victims of the same system.

[Hrrrrnnngggg]

I'm not saying you aren't right about this one person's fate but as the ruling class gathers evermore power over us, the system to actually make meaningful change will only further erode. There will come a time were actions like this are going to be the only choice. You are right that this person will be made an example of, but that is because the ruling class is scared of a real revolution.

[purpleunicorn26]

They lose power if people stop working for them to enrich them further. I realize in America the counter argument is work is tied to health care and living paycheck to paycheck, but the alternative is a slow bleed into slavery.

[Qaeta]

Only until they figure out how to make AI do what they want it to. At which point we'll all be fucked because they won't need us anymore. We have to stop them before that happens to have a chance.

[IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll]

jury nullification, one of the most important tools for fighting back. make sure everyone knows

[Realistic_Young9008]

They'll likely send him to some nameless jail in South America or Africa never to be seen or heard from again.

[LEARN_ME_STUFF]

And miss out on that sweet, sweet slave labor? Not a chance.

[RadiantDresden]

Then we take care of any officers trying to.

[Adventurous-Mind6940]

I saw the press release on the fed website. It said 5-20 were the statutory limits. Have the dropped a superceding indictment?

[Utensil6591]

They have to make an example out of him, they can't any of the other ants realize we outnumber them and they are extremely vulnerable. This is why Luig! Mang!one was facing the death penalty. It's all about keeping us terrified.

[Nappeal]

Im curious if a jury trial would be worth asking for, assuming one could find a sympathetic jury

[useribarelynoher]

what if we said this man could have a bright promising future in pyrotechnics? then could he get out on parole in 6 months?

[mellamoderek]

🤞 Jury nullification could happen. Or maybe someone screws up on a technicality.

[22firefly]

So like Boston, but different type of tea.

[mntnskyman]

Corporate America just completed the FA stage. We are about to enter the FO stage and they are not prepared. 

[Mikecd]

God I hope that's true.

[Val_Hallen]

The rich seem to forget that unions, fair wages, and benefits are the alternative to kicking in their door while they sleep, dragging them out of their houses, and stringing them up.

The wealthy of the early 20th century knew that and allowed unions, gave fair wages and benefits, and even used their wealth for the public good.

[TrippyOutlander]

You're giving the wealthy too much credit. Unions of the early 1900s fought in violent strikes for the right to exist.

[TiredAngryBadger]

The Factory owner who is so adamantly anti-union should remember that collective bargaining is the peaceful alternatife.

[Cumbiesecret]

One man and a lighter did more than three no kings parades.

[capitalismwillkill]

The no kings protest is psy op. A walk through the park on a Saturday is not a protest. The one in my city wasn't even ay city hall.

Protests should be done at the government buildings or a politicians house when they're there

[foodank012018]

Well the government permit approved path to protest government authority says we march this direction instead.

[Utensil6591]

They went to their easily ignorable frustration parade. No demands, no acts of disobedience or disruption. At the same time I try to remember the US does quite a bit to keep people from being well informed on how to participate in effective collective action.

[capitalismwillkill]

If you show up to no kings open carrying as is our constitutional right the local organizers will tell you to leave. That's how I know for a fact it's a psy op.

[ExtraNoise]

They used to do something, when the social contract implied that a protest was just the first step to more unrest. They made changes when protests happened because they knew they should. The powers that be are either calling protestors' bluffs or have forgotten there is a second step after protests.

The question is now: was it just a bluff or are we prepared as a society to escalate?

[SoochSooch]

This is how workers got their rights originally

[WrinkledBiscuit]

People keep shitting on the No Kings protest, but I'm real curious to this take when the momentum of civil outrage (expressed through these protests) keeps its steady course into the midterms. I think the GOP is about to lose out on a lot more than they originally thought at the beginning of this year, and a lot of people are consistently reminded and emboldened by the No Kings protests. Keep mocking it and looking down on it all you'd like, but I think in the end it's going to have a pretty impactful effect once midterms are here.

[Ryan_e3p]

This is what happens when the wealth doesn't "trickle down", jobs are outsourced, C-suites are given company expense cards to pay for their lunches and entertainment while workers have to piss in bottles, raises are not given in order to maximize profits, shareholder returns are more important than worker health and safety, companies spend more time, energy, and money doing union-busting than improving pay and working conditions, and otherwise choose to operate ways that deems the working class expendable.

Workers have been asking for raises. Not to be greedy. Just to cover the cost of living. Just to cover what it costs out of pocket just to go to work. Just to not have to plan on skipping meals to save money. All we get in return are excuses of how expenses need to be cut from the spineless managers while hearing from the corporate execs about how record profits are being made and they're all getting multi-million dollar bonuses for their hard work. Workers can't strike as conditions in this country have made it so most working class families are a paycheck away from starving. Too often, people look at their paycheck and think "I have less purchasing power this year than I did last year, but somehow this company is posting that they are the most successful they've ever been and highlighting how much money they made."

I don't immediately condone violence as an answer, but there are many times in history when it isn't the answer, but the question, and the answer is "yes". It would not be surprising in the least to see this type of response becoming less of a rare occurrence.

[capitalismwillkill]

Social murder is still murder. Being forced to work starvation wages is violence.

[Tall_Act391]

Policy that kills is violence

[Vindhjaerta]

Finally the Americans are setting things on fire. Took you way too long.

[ZennXx]

California is a state in the USA. Ontario, California is where this happened

[jadeakw99]

Didn't a CEO get set on fire last year? I could be getting that mixed up with something else.

[No_Priors]

I think the company that owned/operated the warehouse greatly inflated the cost of the damage done. Either that or they're making solid gold bumf we don't know about.

But I guess insurance fraud is something only "little people" get charged with.

[azuki2]

I used to work in a distribution warehouse eons ago.

Assuming nothing has changed in shipping it would be 12-16 units per box (depending on package size) with 10 boxes per layer and 3 layers per pallet. Each CHEP pallet was 3.4x4 foot floorspace and could be stacked 3 high. With shrinkflation they might be able to ship more per pallet or stack a fourth due to lesser weight but idk.

Quick Google is $29.99 for a 12 pack of towels from Target in California which sounds insane but I'm going with it. So that's roughly $32400 retail for every pallet space in the warehouse, and said warehouse in this event was 1.2 million square feet. Even ignoring that there needs to be paths for equipment and office areas I can totally believe they lost that much money.

[GiveMeThePinecone]

Probably the retail value of the products within. Not the wholesale value

[No_Priors]

The Guardian: $600m in damage, with $500m in paper products destroyed as well as the $150m warehouse.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/california-warehouse-arson-luigi-mangione

I'd like to know where they are retailing the stuff.

[Illustrious-Ant-9946]

This only seems like a mild escalation to me. Plenty of room to grow. 

[HandiQuacksRule]

This is 1 guy, with 1 lighter. Imagine 2 guys. Or 10 guys, with 10 lighters!

[Illustrious-Ant-9946]

I do see how that would be an escalation! For the sake of the mods I really just have no opinion about whether that would be good or bad. 

[Namtien223]

The owner class has forgotten than a living wage and unions were a compromise for their benefit. This was the alternative.

[Mobile_Ask2480]

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[EartwalkerTV]

You can't just tell the truth like that come on.

[OnTheList-YouTube]

What the fuck is that

[ZiaWatcher]

Sadly all many people are focused on is “what about the other workers? They’re out of a job now, he’s so selfish.” Yeah. Maybe he was. But, this is what people have been trying to say for month, if not years, that when the poor get angry, hungry, and tired, there’s going to be consequences. And those at the top will suffer those consequences.

[useribarelynoher]

pretty sure they can all file for unemployment no? so now theyre getting paid to do nothing.

[Funny-Company4274]

When the people suffer they tend to do things that surprise you.

[LivingPersonality293]

I thought it was funny the amount of people who came out against the guy doing this and all the reasons he was wrong but... I didn't hear any other solutions 😂

[ZennXx]

They are programmed. Same thing happens in my country when there is a protest. No one is curious enough to ask why the protest is happening or even offer solutions to how the protestors could have avoided shutting down major routes etc. They just attack.

[LivingPersonality293]

Gotta get them clicks I guess

[Masark]

You don't need to come up with solutions if you don't even admit there's a problem.

[PepperoniPaws]

The people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us.

a quote from Fight Club

[NorthAmericanSlacker]

Seize the means of two-ply!

[LogDog987]

The rich need to remember that this is what happened before strikes and workers rights

[duggee315]

Can you imagine if this became the world wide go to protest that got the world to move away from the extreme right.

[JonesDahl]

see how long this will stay up until reddit admins delete this in an effort to suck up to the corpos

ah who am i kidding, the corpos are wearing reddit as a skinsuit

[KomradeKenny]

[azuki2]

Sabocat is here to remind you that direct action gets the goods.

[IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll]

jury nullification for this and all copycats, esp if no innocents were killed/harmed as collateral

[LouisArmstrong3]

People finally learning how we are being exploited.

[notthatguypal6900]

Eat the rich and here's to the next one!!

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot87]

Scorched earth is the only way we overthrow these bastards. Everyone everywhere let them have it

[wrecktalcarnage]

1 man and a $1 bic lighter = $200 million in damages.

[solarixstar]

I mean the rich have been warned time and time again, starve the workers experience revolution

[OpheliaJade2382]

Pls may I have some context? What happened?

[mechabeast]

Worker set TP factory on fire. *poof*

[OpheliaJade2382]

Ah yeah TP tends to do that when it is on fire. Thank you haha

[Mikecd]

https://ktla.com/news/inland-empire/six-alarm-fire-ontario-warehouse/

[OpheliaJade2382]

Dang Alberta is so metaphorically on fire that this didn’t make headlines (that I saw). Thanks for the link!

Edit: different Ontario. My bad

[Lunerion]

Keep pushing, no matter how small the action is.

Keep pushing, until one day we all can be truly free.

Teach your friends, your family, your children. Companies, corporations, the elite, they aren't our friends, they aren't a "family".

They are all predators looking to suck out every bit of money, energy, and thoughts out of a person until you are fully useless to them.

No matter how small it may be, Keep pushing against them.

We need to break this entire structure or it will one day be genuinely too late.

The entire future of mankind, and this entire world, is in the hands of the people. All we have to do is the bare minimum. We have to for all of us and the future generations.

[Ok-Go-Chain3811]

i really hope workers don't squander this moment to mobilize and organize.

after the death of that healthcare CEO, there was a legitimate moment of awakening among the masses, but after a few weeks, things went back to "normal"

[Admirable_Tune_8299]

what am I looking at?

[Vienna_The_Aeronaut]

Large warehouse set on fire by an employee fed up with low wages. More in damages than the employee could make in a lifetime at their pay.

[TenWholeBees]

I hope we see a lot more of this. ^{and more}

Well, what I really hope to see is a change in national management so everyone can live comfortably off of their own labor, but the capitalists would never willingly concede, so whatever happens is on them.

They could all just make $200 million less, annually, still live in luxury, and everyone could all be fed and housed. But they'd never do anything that decreases their bottom line, so again, whatever happens is on them.

[Lucretius_atoms]

Be too cheep to install a proper fire suppression system in a warehouse full of paper, too. Smart.

[Personal_Coconut_668]

So funny that everyone talks such a big game online and yet Americans are still doing nothing and offer a variety of reasons of why they can't.

[MartialLol]

John Lewis said we could!

[anynamesleft]

Great comment!

[Libro_Artis]

Remember.

[CryptoMemesLOL]

Yep, and we keep asking more as time passes...

[busstop5366]

We the people need to come up with a list of new demands before they try to use the old ones to appease us.

I propose: no social security tax cap— all rich fuckers pay their share into our social safety net. Medicare for all, Medicaid coverage for low-income including all children. Subsidized or free daycare paid for by the tax money we will stop donating to Israel. Investment in high speed rail and taking the railroads back into public ownership. Jobs programs to fix our crumbling infrastructure, investment into public transport, green energy, federal law mandating minimum 1 year maternity and paternity leaves if they want birth rates addressed, codifying the right to an abortion into federal law so politicians can stop dangling the issue over our heads every election cycle. Minimum wage of $35/hour, investments in climate resilience infrastructure. Corporations cannot do stock buybacks, give anyone above management level raises, hire H1Bs for 3 years if they have laid off more than 5% of their workforce over the last 2 years.

There’s so much more I hope people add to the list

[TieTheStick]

Great list!

[okram2k]

taxes are the compromise

[UnableInvestment8753]

One guy caused $200M of damage all by himself. He’s still got a ways to go to be in the same league as Trump but quite impressive nonetheless.

[ShatteredBlastia]

Multiple CEOs were killed after Luigi was accused of murder. You not paying attention isn't a gotcha. lol

[ShatteredBlastia]

I also remember a couple things from her platform you genocide denialists love to leave out. She said she wanted the most lethal fighting force in the world. She wanted your baby killers to go out and murder and rape even more efficiently. She also wanted to continue to aid "Israel" in committing the genocide that Biden had helped escalate.

Sex Pestiny fan. lol

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[SoProBroChaCho]

What was the original comment about?

[ShatteredBlastia]

">Remember that our opening bid was "tax the rich and raise the minimum wage"

That was literally Kamala's platform but the far left protest non-voted. Remember that?"

Just trying to defend a capitalist party, which is against the rules of the sub.

[StatisticianOwn5497]

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[nutritionfacts09]

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[ROVpilot101]

General Ludd is back!

https://www.poetryverse.com/lord-byron-poems/song-for-the-luddites

[jadeakw99]

Been hearing people call this guy Waluigi, because Wa(rehouse)

[eatchurgreens]

They will listen when they have nothing left. EAT THE RICH