• BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    7 hours ago

    Don’t lionize this guy though, I hear he made a post on Facebook four years ago where he used the r-word. And you can’t complain about not being allowed to lionize him, that’s metaposting which is bad. Yes I am still salty. Make a Luigi emoji that’s titled :lion:

  • isame [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    12 hours ago

    I generally agree with the sentiment. And my concern isn’t even if it’s adventurism.

    But who suffers here? Our friend here does, certainly. All of his coworkers at said warehouse are probably going to have to be shifted to other warehouse or be part of the cleanup crew. The company has insurance. So they suffer some temporary diminished capacity for production, likely at not much actual financial loss. And the workers suffer, on the whole.

    Am I missing something?

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      Leftists seem to think “insurance” is some kind of magic fairy that just makes all the consequences of this action go away. I’ve seen this in multiple different incidents too, oh don’t worry insurance covers them.

      This is a fantasy.

      If this warehouse is even owned by KC (this is generally not the case, they are owned by a property management company and rented to the occupant), “insurance” will pay for the building damages, and likely not even close to all of it. Also KC doesn’t run their own warehouses, it’s all 3PL unless something changed in the last few years.

      This warehouse was the distribution center of KC products for that entire region. DCs are run lean, empty space is wasted rent.

      All of that supply chain capacity needs to go elsewhere now. Trucks coming from the plant need to unload their product somewhere. LTL and truckload carriers need to pick up their orders from somewhere to get it to the customer.

      Freight costs are going to go through the roof. Order backlog will balloon. Lead times will explode. Their other warehouses will now be overflowing and plagued with inefficiencies.

      Customers are still going to need product. They will go to competitors.

      KC needs to open a new warehouse. Replace the institutional knowledge and leaders they lost. Spend time engineering and implementing their WMS, ERP, and processes to fit a new building. This takes time and money.

      Ontario is the logistics hub of the entire West coast and Southwest. There’s a reason every warehouse is there. It’s close to the port, has plentiful cheap labor, industrial land is cheap, weather is good (well it hits 115 degrees F in summer but that’s only a problem for the hourlies), and a truck can service the entire region in a relatively short time.

      None of this is covered by some benevolent insurance company. This is a significant event for KC, and it’s going to lose them a fucking truckload of money every single day they don’t have a DC running in that area.

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    The funniest thing about Luigi Mangione is that by suppressing him as much as they did, they made it super easy for people to mythologize and project their own beliefs onto him. I feel like if they just let him talk, he would say some stupid shit that would piss people off within days.

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        In the first sentence of the luigi manifesto, he said that he loves cops.

        I think the most obvious motive of the Luigi case is that he was 26 years old. Obamacare requires his parent’s health insurance cover him until he turned 26. This means he was likely recently kicked off of his parent’s health insurance plan. It has been reported that Luigi suffers from back pain from a spinal injury.

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      It 100% is.

      Still cool as fuck though and I look forwards to seeing more and more of it happen. We have no control over it and no ability to stop it. All we can do is recognise that the occurrence of this stuff increasing over time is an indicator of things tilting more and more our way. More and more people will be moved towards individual action as things worsen. It is disorganised revolutionary energy finding its way out.

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        Then it should not be cheered for. It just shows the absolute decay of the movement (in the imperial core): that there is no mass workers party to turn that potential into something organised that is relevant on a systemic scale

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          Okay, but then was the lack of violence before supposed to show that the movement was robust and organized? Obviously not. The only reason there weren’t outbursts before is because the movement was dead; nothing left on the bones to decay.

          These are the first signs of life of a movement that has been dead for decades in the imperial core.

        • bunnossin [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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          There cannot be a mass workers’ party if the mass of workers do not want a party, and it’s unreasonable to expect such an organization to simply appear and get everyone in line instantly as soon as revolutionary sentiment emerges. This is an unproductive expenditure of energy compared to organized action by a vanguard party, yes, but framing it as a failing of the movement as a whole is unhelpful. This isn’t a sign of the “absolute decay of the movement”, it’s a sign that people are beginning to recognize that the change they want will not be achieved under the current system.

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          I disagree. The movement itself causes this to happen. It is the success of the movement that causes these leaks of excess to occur. It is impossible for the movement to harness and organise everything, everywhere. The movement is creating the revolutionary energy with the spread of education and class consciousness while simultaneously organising it, but some of it spreads faster than it can be organised and you get this.

          I am completely neutral to it. I would rather these people were found and organised before this happened, but I see it as a good indicator that things are trending in the direction we want them to trend. If the revolution is a coming thunderstorm then these are small rains as the weather slowly worsens.