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    11 hours ago

    I’m glad nobody was hurt, he waited until after midnight to set it. But maybe someone needs to call the fire marshals on the Kimberly Clark warehouses. I can hear a fire alarm at the end, and I’m no fire safety engineer, but it doesn’t look like there are signs of sprinklers or other fire suppression systems?

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      Don’t have the full article but there was fire suppression. Then the fire team showed up, evacuated the building, and, at the behest of the company, shut off the system to prevent further damage to the rest of the products as the fire team was handling the original fire.

      Then the dude went around and started burning other pallets in different parts of the warehouse.

      Waluigi here had a plan and executed it.

      Should have paid them enough to live.

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        Oh, that’s very interesting. If that’s true, someone should tell Kimberly-Clark’s insurers that they deliberately shut off fire suppression during a fire. Maybe this will actually cost them a few dollars?

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    14 hours ago

    Who would win?

    One disgruntled boi with a lighter

    or

    A billion dollar company

    Where’s my stapler?

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      I… uh… unfortunately, I’m gonna go with the billion dollar company.

      Insurance will cover most of the damage, the dude will end up in prison, and at most the worst that the company will suffer is higher premiums.

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        I am hoping insurance will do all it can to deny and even then charge more moving forward.

        Alternatively, the company heads will get scared knowing their house is flammable too.

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          Personally I’d never want to burn down someone’s house. If I found out afterwards they had a pet, I’d have something to feel bad about.

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            I have seen this repeatedly, and while I understand that it would be sad, what is more valuable: 1-3 pets, or all the humans that will have their lives destroyed by the fuck you set fire to?

            Did you forget why we were here? Liberation isn’t free. Dead animals are very sad. I get it. A dead ecosystem includes many dead animals. Like, MANY.

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              This is a concept that a lot of people struggle with. They lose sight of the bigger picture and simply react to what’s right in front of them.

              This is why having class consciousness is important. It puts everything into perspective.

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      As much as I support the dude’s sentiments, I gotta go with the billion dollar company winning on this one. He’s not getting paid, likely facing prison time, fines, and legal fees, and the billion dollar company files an insurance claim.

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        I wonder if these kind of things become common enough would insurance companies start charging business higher premiums based on average employees wages because a poor employee is more liable to snap and burn the place down.

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        As a singular instance, sure. But if people become inspired to organize to continue these actions across multiple industries, then we begin to destabilize the system.

        He struck a blow, and showed people it is possible to fight back. That’s a win in my book, regardless of the price he had to pay to achieve it.

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        This is how you fight the ruling class without guns though.

        I mean they can put him in prison, but maybe there are hundreds who’ll take his place…

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      [someone] was charged by federal authorities with arson of a building used in interstate and foreign commerce

      So because they sell wares in other states, it’s a felony? Not sure I agree with that.

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      The initial estimate found the paper product inside the warehouse being worth $500 million the building itself being worth $150 million

      Damn. Thoughts and prayers. Though it does suck for the people who lost jobs over this.

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        Nobody lost a job that was paying enough to live there. They should open a co-op in the ashes… Of course it’ll still be profitable enough for the company to rebuild and refill the warehouse.

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          It was still a job for those people. If they aren’t being paid enough, sudden unemployment would be pretty scary. I’m not passing judgement on the act, just recognizing the situation that this has put those workers in.

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                The decision of a company to not pay a living wage has forced a man’s hand to fight back against his own oppression. Unfortunately others have been caught in the crossfire.

                Let’s place the blame where it belongs.

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                  Two comments up, I said that I was not taking a position on the act. But to suggest he was forced to burn down that building is edgelord at best.

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            Oh, there’s always an excuse in defense of our overlords. Let me make this clear:

            I would prefer the world reduced to ashes, over being ruled by them.

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      Oh nice, I thought this was in Ontario. Some difference though.

      *It was in a town called Ontario, in California… D:

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          No, it says

          Thick smoke billows from the roof of the Kimberly-Clark paper products facility Tuesday in Ontario … 40 miles east of Los Angeles

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            While we were distracted with Iran, Washington and Oregon joined Canada and allowed their army to begin annexing into SoCal. Western Washington/Oregon was cool with it for social reasons; Eastern was cool with it for gas prices.

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    I am very curious about the circumstances leading up to this

    And I’m very curious how long his court case will take.