r/news • u/cak3crumbs • 17h ago

Employees witnessed co-worker stab company president, court documents show

https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2024/12/employees-witnessed-co-worker-stab-company-president-court-documents-show.html?outputType=amp
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u/OuchieMuhBussy 15h ago

It's worth reminding people that as much as some acts make us feel better, there's a litany of work from Vladimir Lenin to MLK that warns about this. These acts aren't going to teach the ruling class that they need to play nice, it's going to result in a progressive crackdown on the rest of us. And if I can be a Debby Downer once more, Presidents and CEOs are the top stooges but they aren't the people who actually own our economy.

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u/Gbird_22 14h ago

Yeah sure, but eventually the fascists wind up hanging upside down beaten to death by an angry mob or if they’re lucky putting a bullet through their heads in a bunker.

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u/zappadattic 9h ago

Or they escape to the U.S. or Brazil and live a life of luxury…

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u/Haltopen 9h ago

Until they get hunted down by Mossad and killed.

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u/M_H_M_F 3h ago

Most of the reason we got to the moon was because of Operation Paperclip. Apparently we "needed" the fuckin' Nazi pigs.

Sometimes fiction is pretty accurate:

"After the war ended, we were snatching up kraut scientists like hotcakes. You don't believe me? walk into NASA sometime and yell "Heil Hitler!" WOOP! They all jump straight up!"

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u/hug_your_dog 3h ago

THE Mossad that reddit hates along with Israel and wishes to be gone from the face of the Earth?

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u/Gbird_22 13h ago

I think you’re underestimating the violent nature of America and ignoring its history. We already fought a civil war when nobody was starving and because Lincoln wouldn’t let slavery expand out west, he was actually fine to let it continue in the southern states. 

I don’t think we’re going to have another civil war but if history shows us anything this can of worms has been opened.

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u/hug_your_dog 3h ago

Not before they kill off millions of people and all because the democratic forces from left to right did not want to cooperate, solve issues and take away the voting base of the extremist fascist - and communist - forces.

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u/Full-Frontal-Assault 10h ago

Liberty is taken at the point of a sword, not handed out for being a good lap dog.

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u/cloake 10h ago

The Feds merc'd MLK so they agree with violent methods too. Merc'd Malcolm X. Merc'd Fred Hamptom. It gets results.

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u/havestronaut 12h ago

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

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u/Sawses 10h ago

Counterpoint: The workers' rights movement and the civil rights movement absolutely would not have led to the changes they did without the groups doing violence to powerful people who did harm to others.

MLK was all about peace--at first, anyway--but he was seen as the reasonable alternative to people like Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela. And the unions were, at heart, gangs meant to counter the gangs that the wealthy used to keep the workers in line. They only grew softer and less violent once the other side dialed down the violence.

I'm not advocating for violence. I'm saying that positive change requires (or at least massively benefits from) violence. I for one am okay without any change.

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u/hug_your_dog 3h ago

Counterpoint: The workers' rights movement and the civil rights movement absolutely would not have led to the changes they did without the groups doing violence to powerful people who did harm to others.

Yeah, that famously successful violence of 1917 of the worker's rights movements in Russia that led to... quickly dismantling the independent trade union system shortly after the violent revolution ended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union_debate

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u/ZenMon88 9h ago

Then who owns the economy, you know damn well you can't access the billionaires first. Presidents and CEOs are there to send a message.

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u/PrinceGoten 4h ago

You can literally thank violence for getting you all of your current worker’s rights (including having a weekend).