• Lemmyng@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      To the tune of “Giant Woman” from Steven Universe:

      🎵 All I wanna do

      Is see people like you

      Pay living wages

      Pay living wages/n

      All I wanna be

      Is someone who gets to see

      Some living wages

      All you have to do

      To not see a fire crew

      Is pay living wages

      Pay living wages

      All you have to be

      Is someone not filled with greed.

      Pay living wages

      Oh I know it’ll be great

      to not anticipate

      Your warehouse going up in smoke and fire

      If you pay us some more

      Your assets won’t become s’mores

      Because you paid

      Some living wages

      You might even like

      Not being shot at

      But if you don’t pay us

      Then get ready for contact

      But if it were me,

      I’d distribute happily

      Some living wages

      Some living wages

      All I wanna be

      Is someone who gets to see

      Some living wages 🎶

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    24 hours ago

    The ‘7 warehouse fires’ claim is unverified. Only 2-3 can be confirmed, and accounts like @ProudSocialist are framing unrelated incidents as a coordinated uprising. That’s not journalism, it’s narrative-building.

    Abdulkarim said on video: "All you had to do was pay us enough to f*cking live. That’s not revolutionary ideology. That’s a 29-year-old warehouse worker who snapped.

    Political violence in the U.S. is rising, that’s documented. It’s reaching levels not seen since the 1970s. Meanwhile, overall crime is actually falling. So what we’re seeing isn’t a general breakdown in society. It’s targeted desperation in a country where working people feel increasingly squeezed.

    History shows that sustained, organized labor action (strikes, unions, collective bargaining) has done more to improve working conditions than any fire ever has. The most effective ‘anti-capitalist’ movement in American history was the labor movement, and it won through solidarity, not sabotage."

    Accounts on the left are celebrating these fires as class warfare. Accounts on the right will use them to paint all workers as dangerous radicals. Both are exploiting real suffering for engagement. Neither is offering solutions.

    You don’t need to fabricate a revolution to prove that working people are struggling. A man burned down a warehouse because he couldn’t afford to live on his wages, and that fact alone should be enough to demand change. But celebrating arson isn’t solidarity. It’s spectacle. And spectacle doesn’t pay rent. If you actually care about the working class, put your energy into the things that have historically worked: organizing, striking, voting, and building collective power.

    Anything else is just content.

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      It was probably an electrical fire caused by the CEO of the company following ai instructions on how to hide his mistress’s pregnancy from his wife, so I’m sure the CEO will find some poor working patsy

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    So we march day and night,

    By the big cooling towers.

    They have the plant,

    We have the power.