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Why aren't the sprinker systems working in these warehouses? This is a huge osha violation
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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?
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.
That's okay, we'll take credit for them anyway, and most people won't know the difference, they'll think that all the warehouses are going to burn down. People will will stop coming to work, and warehouse owners will all be worried. Maybe they'll even have to spend a bunch of their precious profits on extra security.
There is nothing stochastic about either the CEO, Sam Altman or the warehouse cases. Pretty deterministic those.
Also wouldn't call it "terrorism". It is revolutionary action.
No, it's terrorism. The media has just turned that into a bad word for anything they don't like. The government using violence to make you follow the law? Also terrorism. Just read the definition. It's just been made to be that the word terrorism is only used for non-state violence. It's been turned into this purely evil force (typically done by brown people), rather than using the tools of violence to change behavior.
One man's revolutionary activist is anothers terrorist.
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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"
Sounds like a jolly roger of a good time :)
Old school Monkey Wrench Gang checking in. Edward Abbey is showing me the way.
Listen, I too am at the point of appreciating the attitude of "fuck it, burn it all down," as a symbolic cry of the times. However this post implies a localized wave of anti-capitalism-motivated arson, which is (and please correct me if I'm wrong) currently unsubstantiated beyond the one toilet paper warehouse that everyone has already heard about.
Until these fires are proven to be intentional and not accidents, this post is nothing more than misinformation, and misinformation gets an automatic downvote.
How many warehouse fires are there in the average week? Statistics could be used to determine the odds of this being a nornal week or something unusual.
Though even if it is unusual, it could just as easily be a false flag intended to blame high prices on anything other than the situation in Iran.
Or maybe information could be gleamed from those gambling sites. Were there any bets about warehouse fires and did any event have sudden big bets for a new fire before it started?
damn I already forgot about the betting. probably worth a check for any major event.
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In this time of the year? Localized entirely in your kitchen?
"There goes your inventory"
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They're moving from mass shootings to mass warehouse fires... eventually they'll become civilized... the ones that are left.
Baby steps.