Trump can't have people getting warned from his cronies more profitable endeavors!
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Baby product company got away with a slap on the wrist recall for product that was killing kids. Their appointed solution was to announce a convoluted set of instructions on how to permanently destroy part of this device, but you could still go on using the now lesser product, missing a core feature that drove initial purchase. If you agreed and jumped through all the hoops, labeled defaced parts and sent the company photos, you'd receive a measly check for $25 in the mail in several weeks, for a product that was initially over $200.
Obviously a horseshit, non-repair for the damage they caused and the loss of key functionality in product.
Long story short, I emailed the CFPB, said "this seems like bullshit", they said, "yeah, that doesn't seem great, give me a minute..." The next day, I got a direct phone call from a woman at corporate for that large multinational cooperation who was just tripping over herself to offer me any solution I wanted, up to a full refund of original purchase price, without any further hassle.
These systems work if you use them. Fucking trump sycophant idiots voting to take existing benefits away from yourselves and the people you love. Godamned failures of life.
A lot of working people voted for this. It's important to continue to spotlight the dismantling of the working class support and blame the people in power.
While the next 4 years will be donkey shit, it is important to continue highlighting these actions and flag them as actions of the GOP. Repetition is important for it to be heard.
No.
A lot of working people voted to blame immigrants, trans people, and wokeism.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
They voted to be able to put their boot on a colored man's neck. They don't care if someone is putting a boot on their own neck, so long as they get to do it to someone else.
That a quote around 60 years old is still not only relevant but still working to keep power says a lot about how broken things have always been.
History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme.
working people voted for this
those same people will 100% toe the line when he continues to blame everything on mexicans, gays, women, obama, hillary, etc. same thing when he takes all the credit for good things that he had fuckall to do with
The problem is the right-wing propaganda mill that they all trust more than even friends and family, which will furiously insist it's anything but Dearest Leader's fault.
A lot of working people voted for this.
Yup. They were told exactly what was going to happen, and they voted for it.
It's important to continue to spotlight the dismantling of the working class support and blame the people in power.
What? Blame the people in power? For doing exactly what they were voted into power to do? Blame the people who voted them in.
Enjoy the schadenfreude of the leopards eating their faces. But at some point you'll either have to forgive them once they realise they've been hoodwinked by psychological warfare waged on the news and social media by individuals and organisations with geopolitical and corporate greed aims in mind, then rebuild your public institutions together and educate them to throw off these infective and destructive ideas and dogma.
Or shoot them in a gruelling civil war, and beat them so resoundingly that their ideology remains burnt and buried with them and Sherman himself would say "fucking hell".
Hope and strive for the first, but prepare for and pray the second doesn't become the only way.
Oh sure, I've said plenty of times that there has to be a path to redemption, and I still believe that. But that hinges on those people recognizing their error and seeking to correct it.
Until that happens, it will be "Or shoot them in a gruelling civil war, and beat them so resoundingly that their ideology remains burnt and buried with them and Sherman himself would say "fucking hell"."
Prepare, indeed. [email protected]
That's good but it's not enough to act smug, no matter how righteous it is, standing on the moral high ground if you want others to get up there, you have to lend a hand to lift others up.
Have faith, speaking as a Brit that voted remain who had to deal with the idiotic decision made by half the population, the majority of those people can be redeemed.
But you have to reach out and try to engage with them verbally in a non-combative tone, no matter how much you want to scream in their face that they're so dense they make a brick look sharp.
But you have to reach out and try to engage with them verbally in a non-combative tone, ...
That's been going on for decades. It hasn't worked. In fact, things have gotten much, much worse. And now the fascists have been voted in again, and are going to be taking full control of the entire US government in just over a month.
The time for gentle discussion has passed.
Well since you think your soapbox has been reduced to splinters, your ballot box has failed, the jury box is crumbling down before you, why don't you crack open the ammo box NOW and take the initiative?
Preparing.
Best start actioning within a month because after that they won't have to fire the first shot when they have the legal system to hide behind. For example, see Luigi.
Honestly I'd rather "forgive" the ones that didn't vote since they outnumber the Trump supporters by quite a bit. The qanon types can eat crow from here to eternity for all I fucking care at that point, if we can get more people to actually give a fuck we won't need those assholes.
Government agencies, stop.
Yes. And the dumbasses who need those agencies voted for him.
And?
It's what Americans literally voted or sat on their asses and let happen after all.
Sorry I ran out of sympathy for the working class.
You reap what sow and you deserve what you get.
They're getting exactly what they asked for.
A racist, misogynist, greedy America, to match what they look like on the inside.
Centrists have had no sympathy for the working class for decades. You're just saying the quiet part out loud now.
Why should they? The working class doesn’t want to look out for itself, so why should they get any different then what they deserve?
I'm working class and I very much want to look out for myself. I didn't vote for this. I vote for the most progressive candidates I can every 2 years. Do I deserve to suffer the consequences of others actions?
Why does this news justify blatant classism for you?
Because I’m tired of eating shit because other people are too fucking stupid to know any better.
At this point all I do is resent you people.
And all I do is resent the billionaire class, who are actively extracting all of our wealth. I didn't ask about your feelings though. I asked why you think the recent election justifies blatant classism against the working class.
Who exactly is "you people"?
The working class you've always hated voted for them in 2020. And then "Whoops! We don't have the votes lol!" for minimum wage and childcare.
Democrats used the working class, gave them nothing in return, and then told them that they should be happy because the economy is doing great for billionaires. And now you're acting like they're ingrates for not appreciating it.
that’s what the working class seem to want
People's wants can be manipulated easily, and there is an entire $500 Billion/year industry in the USA built upon this fact.
It's time that we admit that what passes for "democracy" in this country is a lie. Voting doesn't exist for people to make informed decisions about how this country should be governed, its purpose is to legitimize the decisions that the oligarchic owners of this country will make.
Shocking
But think of all that sweet sweet trickle down.
Here we go again. Why do these threads always turn into pointing fingers at each other.
I guess things will never change. It's so ingrained to take the path of least resistance as opposed to focusing on the root.