Link:https://www.theonion.com/sweatshop-worker-devastated-to-hear-jacket-she-worked-s-1843834363

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Sweatshop Worker Devastated To Hear Jacket She Worked So Hard On Looted
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SHENZHEN, CHINA—Upset about the theft of one of the thousands of garments she had sewn, sweatshop worker Li Chen was devastated to hear Monday that the jacket she worked so hard on was looted. “It breaks my heart that I slaved away for 14 cents an hour in an extremely hot and poorly ventilated factory just to have my hard work stolen from Zara,” said Chen, explaining that it felt like she lost the tip of her finger sewing the lapel for nothing after learning that someone snatched the garment rather than paying the full retail price. “I don’t work 16-hour shifts so some person can waltz into a store and take the jacket I made without paying $85. It’s just absolutely devastating, that stitching was a nightmare. I should just take a pay cut to help out this poor company and everything they’ve been through. I feel bad for my shift supervisor who put his heart and soul into screaming at me to work faster.” At press time, Chen was comforted to learn that insurance covered the stolen item, and Zara would be just fine.

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…adding diversity to newsrooms, sports tv, etc..

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Well Diversity is important. True. But allowing more identity-groups into the higher levels of a ‘dirty-rotten-system’ (to quote Dorothy Day) still leaves us with a dirty rotten system. Just with a more diverse group running it.

Ya need Diversity PLUS something-else. A dismantling of the worst elements of the system, policy by policy. How can that be done in this Corporate-Idiocracy? Uh….

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The thing is…police taking a knee does zero to change institutional racism. Ya know. We need actual policy changes. When will ‘that’ happen?

Well, the Virus, the economic depression, the Energizing of the Black Community, the fact that Trump’s act is probly wearing a bit thin with some undecideds,
and the fact Biden is ahead in some key swing states…means Biden is in good shape to Win in November.

Of course, Trump knows that, so that could mean War with Iran,
Internment Camps for Liberals. Or World War III. Hard to say.
But Trump only knows one way to fight — No Holds Barred.

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Link:https://www.theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351

News in Brief

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First

MINNEAPOLIS—Calling for a more measured way to express opposition to police brutality, critics slammed demonstrators Thursday for recklessly looting businesses without forming a private equity firm first. “Look, we all have the right to protest, but that doesn’t mean you can just rush in and destroy any business without gathering a group of clandestine investors to purchase it at a severely reduced price and slowly bleed it to death,” said Facebook commenter Amy Mulrain, echoing the sentiments of detractors nationwide who blasted the demonstrators for not hiring a consultant group to take stock of a struggling company’s assets before plundering. “I understand that people are angry, but they shouldn’t just endanger businesses without even a thought to enriching themselves through leveraged buyouts and across-the-board terminations. It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off. There’s a right way and wrong way to do this.” At press time, critics recommended that protestors hold law enforcement accountable by simply purchasing the Minneapolis police department from taxpayers.

Protests started in Erie.. a girl here was peacefully protesting, after 15 minutes she was maced and kicked.. #PoliceBrutality pic.twitter.com/nC6HhXMpCe

— Nick / nak5132 🍐 (@the7goonies) May 31, 2020

waterfield wrote:

From what I’m seeing on tv all I can think of is that these riots will do nothing but help Trump remain in office. If the local D.A. does not seek total justice (2d degree murder at a minimum) then the Feds can step in and still prosecute the officer(s). But to see the riots all over the tv screen does not do justice for the Floyd family and it does not in any way help us get rid of Trump.

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I have had those same thoughts. Because that seems to be the history of these things. People voted for Nixon, because he was the ‘law and order’ guy…and on and on and on.

Then again, Biden vs Trump is not McGovern vs Nixon. Its gonna be close. Very very close.

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Zooey wrote:

Oh, and a CNN reporter got arrested and Floyd’s killer(s) haven’t been.

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Yeah, its bad enough we have to live out our lives in a corporotacracy being lied to everyday by Corporate-CNN….but i suppose a Fascist-corporotacracy is even worse.

Ah well. How bout those Rams. I bet they’ll do better with canned-fake-noise instead of actual Packer-fan-noise in the stadium…

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This is the kind of dynamic that makes amerika so hard to describe in a few words.
Some things have gotten worse and worse and worse — pollution, extinctions, etc.
But some things have gotten better — we dont see black people bombed from airplanes anymore.

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I’ve often wondered why someone hasn’t come up with a way to modify/erase a QB’s interception numbers by adjusting for the “Clearly not his fault INTs”.

I mean baseball has ‘errors’ and unearned runs, etc.

It makes zero sense to say a QB was intercepted three times, if two of them bounced off a WR’s chest.

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Krystal said the leftist movement was ‘on the cusp of victory…’

But it wasn’t. It was a mirage. The only reason Bernie won so many states early was the Corporate-Neolibs had spread out their votes among all those Corporate-Dems.
As soon as the game got down to Corporate vs Bernie — Corporate dominated.

When you add up the Corporate-Dems and the Corporate-Rightwingers…..how big is the ‘progressive left’ really?

All ya haf to do is count that actual, real-life, real-left national office-holders. There’s AOC. There’s Bernie. And a few others.

A handful. Christ there were more leftist officeholders in the 1920s.

Ah well.

Granted, as Noam noted, the left has made some agonizing, slow, progress. Medicare For All is not anathema among the Dems anymore. As far as i can tell…thats about it. Thats what we got, after all these years. That much.

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The reason I decided to even begin this post was in reality to explore the attitude of selfishness that is so obvious in our responses to COVID-19. Of course not everyone has displayed a “me,me,me” -and “you can go to hell” attitude but enough to cause me to ask -how did we get to that. Maybe I’ve answered my own question herein.

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Well if you aren’t a system-blamer, I would think about the only alternative is to say, “well, lots of people just ‘decided’ to be more selfish.”

In that view there is no real ‘why’ to it. People just free-willed their rugged-individual-selves into more selfishness.

I’m exaggerating, but it seems like thats the only way a nonsystem-blamer could go. There’s no ‘why’ to it — people just ‘became’ more selfish.

Prosecutors tend to think that way. Poor people just ‘decided’ to commit more street crimes.

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I dunno though. I think the Corporate-Media would smear a leftist Veggie like Cauliflower.

They would get behind processed meat, I think. Or maybe Wheaties.

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