by Higgenbotham » Mon May 18, 2026 1:39 pm
Higgenbotham wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2026 9:45 am
First there was United Health and now this. Let's see if this possible incipient trend accelerates as they further tighten the screws, which they most certainly will.
Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, 29 yo employee arrested over the arson, no casualties. Estimated damage around $200 million. The phrase ‘all you had to do was pay us enough to live’ comes from the arsonist filming himself starting the fires. It already got a ‘defend deny depose’ spread across social media platforms, as the images of the 1.2 million square foot warehouse ablaze were released.
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The Hill
Opinion: Class warfare is smoldering in America — and it’s about to catch fire
Opinion by Austin Sarat, opinion contributor
In 1982, Harvard Professor Seymour Martin Lipset used his presidential address to the American Political Science Association to crow about the absence of working-class radicalism in this country — the kind that had so plagued European nations.
In Lipset’s view, America’s egalitarian ideology, rapid upward mobility, and individualism fostered what he called a “middle-class” outlook among workers. “The absence of an aristocratic or feudal past,” he observed, “combined with a history of political democracy prior to industrialization, served to reduce the salience of class-conscious politics and proposals for major structural change.”
On April 8, the arsonist filmed himself starting the fire that burned the warehouse to the ground. As he did so, he said, “If you are not going to pay us enough to f—ing live or afford to live, at least pay us enough not to do this (setting fire to the plastic wrapping of a package of toilet paper).”
Then, as the fire spread, he said triumphally, “There goes your inventory.”
Not since Luigi Mangione allegedly shot an insurance company executive in New York City has there been such a crystallizing moment for the expression of the growing hopelessness and anger felt by people at the bottom of the economic ladder. Wealth disparities, the lack of upward mobility, the affordability crisis, and the impact of AI are all contributing to those feelings.
While the lionizing of Mangione has subsided since 2024, the frustration that led him to murder the head of United Health Care has not. Recall the message he painted on the bullets he used: “Delay, Deny, Depose.”
Those words channeled the feelings of millions of Americans who have been mistreated by insurance companies. What the Los Angeles arsonist said, and the fact that he posted a video of what he did, suggests that he, too, saw himself in a role similar to Mangione’s.
The LA arson should be a wake-up call to political leaders that they urgently need to address the growing despair felt by many Americans.
As the new dark age tightens its grip...they will tighten the screws.
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First there was United Health and now this. Let's see if this possible incipient trend accelerates as they further tighten the screws, which they most certainly will.
[quote]Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, 29 yo employee arrested over the arson, no casualties. Estimated damage around $200 million. The phrase ‘all you had to do was pay us enough to live’ comes from the arsonist filming himself starting the fires. It already got a ‘defend deny depose’ spread across social media platforms, as the images of the 1.2 million square foot warehouse ablaze were released.[/quote]
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The Hill
Opinion: Class warfare is smoldering in America — and it’s about to catch fire
Opinion by Austin Sarat, opinion contributor[/quote]
[quote]In 1982, Harvard Professor Seymour Martin Lipset used his presidential address to the American Political Science Association to crow about the absence of working-class radicalism in this country — the kind that had so plagued European nations.
In Lipset’s view, America’s egalitarian ideology, rapid upward mobility, and individualism fostered what he called a “middle-class” outlook among workers. “The absence of an aristocratic or feudal past,” he observed, “combined with a history of political democracy prior to industrialization, served to reduce the salience of class-conscious politics and proposals for major structural change.”
On April 8, the arsonist filmed himself starting the fire that burned the warehouse to the ground. As he did so, he said, “If you are not going to pay us enough to f—ing live or afford to live, at least pay us enough not to do this (setting fire to the plastic wrapping of a package of toilet paper).”
Then, as the fire spread, he said triumphally, “There goes your inventory.”
Not since Luigi Mangione allegedly shot an insurance company executive in New York City has there been such a crystallizing moment for the expression of the growing hopelessness and anger felt by people at the bottom of the economic ladder. Wealth disparities, the lack of upward mobility, the affordability crisis, and the impact of AI are all contributing to those feelings.
While the lionizing of Mangione has subsided since 2024, the frustration that led him to murder the head of United Health Care has not. Recall the message he painted on the bullets he used: “Delay, Deny, Depose.”
Those words channeled the feelings of millions of Americans who have been mistreated by insurance companies. What the Los Angeles arsonist said, and the fact that he posted a video of what he did, suggests that he, too, saw himself in a role similar to Mangione’s.
The LA arson should be a wake-up call to political leaders that they urgently need to address the growing despair felt by many Americans.[/quote]
As the new dark age tightens its grip...they will tighten the screws.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-class-warfare-is-smoldering-in-america-and-it-s-about-to-catch-fire/ar-AA23ui1O?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=b155781adba2464b83caad9273057271&cvpid=6a0b4d525d7a4240b5f3cfd4a5676da5&ei=28