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Probably unpopular, but I don't care what side you're on, if your company is basically a monarchy, you don't deserve to exist. How is this any different than a landlord just collecting rent? You sit there and "own" the company you inhereited while hundreds of other people do your work for you and you profit off of it. And then you don't even give anyone else a chance to run it, only your nepo babies. If your company is just a means to serve your own family and nothing else, it would be better replaced by someone else.
They should pull themselves up by their bootstraps
It's almost as if they want to destroy small businesses, to be replaced by giant mega-monopolies focused only on expanding profit.
That's crazy though, it's not as if our government is financed by evil corpo-fascists.
OR IS IT
Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump
see, this is why i don't have even a subatomic particle of sympathy for these people. yea, they'll lament over their own livelihoods being completely destroyed, but they'd STILL vote for trump, for reasons that, at this point, don't need explaining anymore
i'm glad they're suffering
This is why America has no future. Its people will drive it into the fucking ground thanks to the corporate propaganda machine and conservative culture.
A conservative will happily eat a shit sandwich if it means a liberal has to small his breath....
They would rather be repeatedly raped by a rich old white man than helped by a young black woman. Thats essentially the modern Republican platform.
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You miss understand these people. They own a mill. They have wealth, to them its "oh well it sucks on to the next thing." Look how patriotic I am. It's the employees at these places that are suffering.
Yeah the article says they just laid off the 50 employees, put the factory in mothballs, and then got real sad. No one is liquidating their company's assets let alone coming for their personal fortunes. It almost sounds like they wanted an excuse to retire and sell the assets at their leisure, and this gave them that opportunity...
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‘I wish more of my bones were broken’ - Deranged Lunatic
"I've lost my multi-generational family business in the span of one short year, but stand by my incompetent fuck-witted decision to vote for a man who wouldn't piss on me if I caught fire."
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Fucked around.
Found out.
Tradition doesnt replace intelligence and paying attention. It’s lazy. It is never a safe bet.
It's not a disaster. It's a lesson. Hopefully they learn something from it.
Morgan Freeman Narration:
They did not.
Learning is for libruls and children. And he ain't no librul.
Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.
It's all clowns all the way down, isn't it?
Yep.
It’s going to get better as soon as the media landscape improves, though.
. . . aaaaaany minute now . . .
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Perhaps if they had prayed harder, believed harder, held on longer for the Great Lord Trumps promises to be allowed to come to fruition? [sarcasm].
"Wahh wahh, they are hurting the wrong people." -this dipshit
Follow shit, you risk falling in it
All I can say is good. Get educated before you vote you dumb fucks.
Got screwed but still can't admit he made a mistake. Fuck him and his mill. Sometimes people get what they ask for and you have to enjoy that.
You were warned this would happen you stupid fucking assholes. I hope you starve.
And they delighted in the "liberal tears" of those who warned them.
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Eat shit losers.
Asked what he would tell the president if Trump stood in his sawmill, Wilson didn’t hide his frustration.
“I’d like to say, What the heck? Actually, I’d like to say about nine different explanatives,” he said. “But… President Trump, gee, I understand what you’re trying to do, but you’re on a fool’s mission. And you’re not helping out a few. You’re hurting a lot.”
The White House declined to comment on the closure.
When asked whether they had voted for Trump, both brothers admitted they had—Wilson, all three times. He said the decision felt “disgusting,” and he regrets supporting Trump’s trade agenda, which he now sees as directly responsible for shutting down one of his family’s businesses.
. . . Wilson expressed deep regret about parts of his vote. “There are some things I regret about voting for President Trump? Yes, a hundred percent. Trade policy is one of them… I wish it hadn’t have turned out that way.” Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.
What a fucking clown. He deserves every part of the closure.
What dilemma is he facing by not voting for the politician actively hurting him and his community??? These people are ina cult.
Correct.
Good. Now let's hope the property gets bought up by some shitty finance company and torn the fuck down so we can be sure they can never have it again.
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Yeah, that's a shame. ANYWAY . . .
Ha-ha!
Where's my tiny violin?
"Even knowing what I know, I'd still have voted the same way." Okay, cool, please accept my lack of sympathy for your current situation. Also, emphasis added:
he now sees as directly responsible for shutting down ONE of his family’s businesses.
Yeah, let me expand that lack of sympathy ....
How long until people realize these crooks are not on their side, in a big club of their own, and are treasonous.
Time to leave the divisive groupthink traps they set up for us to fall into to turn against each other?
Xenophobia is a hell of a drug
I’ve been asking that since the 80’s. So far it’s only gotten worse.
Yeah, I've got to absolutely cease thinking people will figure it out.
They're not figuring anything out.
They're hijacked, so their limbic system takes over, and their frontal lobe stands down, and atrophies.
... Incidentally, playing in the background here as I write this reply, is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da8mEBnpB_8 which pretty much says such at the start. The manufactured sideism and frauds to terrorize us, keeping us divided and conquered, and then victim blaming the victims of this terror, calling the victims (both sides), the terrorists.
I guess we have to find better ways of helping people see through this con, than just asking how long until people realize, like we're merely waiting, like we're insane, doing this same thing, like we expect it to work...
"Enlightened" people on the left calling for sympathy for Trump supporters are wrong and working against compassionate national policy.
I's charitable to forgive, but babyhands supporters voted for a rapist who stated his clear intent to harm people with greater focus after harming people for years.
Actions have consequences and every cowardly, selfish maga idiot being harmed by their own choice is getting what they deserve.
The tragedy is the countless other people being killed and devastated because of cowardly maga voters.
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