Bort - 2013-06-26
I wonder when this starts happening in America. Probably not with businessmen but with government officials; there are five Supreme Court justices who probably need to start fearing the public after killing the Voting Rights Act today.
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B. Weed - 2013-06-26 A lot of Texas Republicans too-- we hope.
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Old_Zircon - 2013-06-26 Of course riots are coming, it's almost football season.
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baleen - 2013-06-26 "I think at least riots are coming."
On average, there are about 1,000 riots in China a year. Just as this news came out, in fact, 28 rioters were killed in Western China.
My favorite riot story dates back several years. They were going to build another useless office park in rural China as part of Beijing's endless incompetent eminent domain scheme, when hundreds of farmers destroyed the project. They sent the army in, and the farmers flipped over a TANK. All the government had to say was, "We know who did this and they will be held responsible." China is doomed, and so is the global economy. I have had this nagging suspicion for years that hijacking capitalism from the inside ("hanging them from the ropes we make them") has been Beijing's intent this whole time.
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Nominal - 2013-06-26 What really fucks this country though isn't just Republicans. The core demographic of people who should be pissed off, young people, are trapped in the "both parties are the same" mindset and think they will bring the whole system crashing down by staying home not voting.
It is also wishful thinking that Republicans will die off and fade away. As soon as changing demographics make it viable, I guarantee you they'll find a way to co-op Latinos the way they did Christianity.
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baleen - 2013-06-26 They've successfully co-opted the Latino vote by being open to Latinos. They'll have to shed some sacred caucasian cows if they really want to do that again. The Latino demographics themselves have changed drastically since the last time the GOP came close to widdling the Dems' lead with la Raza down to around 60%.
White Cubans, once mighty delivers of Florida to the most anti-Castro pol, are more likely to vote Republican than a Mexican immigrant that has been voting leftish his entire life. There's more of those guys now, and more of them are voting than ever before. Perhaps when the new flock becomes entrenched middle class, the GOP can cater to their Catholic conservatism, but again, sacred cows.
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baleen - 2013-06-26
Different apples are being given to two opposing parties, followed by the question, "Do you appreciate both varieties of these apples?"
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chumbucket - 2013-06-26
His just dessert. Screw this guy.
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chumbucket - 2013-06-26 Wow didn't even notice the tags when i wrote that.
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GovtCensor - 2013-06-26
Jesus. What do these people think they are, Communists?
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Riskbreaker - 2013-06-26
LISTEN PAPI, IM GONNA TAKE MY SHIRT OFF
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The Mothership - 2013-06-26
The labor movement in the early part of the last century in the US was ugly, violent and got results. China and India will likely have a similar experience.
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Udderdude - 2013-06-26
I'm racin' to the bottom in my shiny racecar.
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Binro the Heretic - 2013-06-26
He insists he's not trying to skip out of the country without paying the workers, this is all just a big misunderstanding.
It was a simple clerical error that led to a lot of the laid-off people not getting their last paychecks. And another one that led to some of the suppliers not getting paid for their last shipments. And another one that led to the people who supply the food for the cafeteria not getting paid for their last delivery.
And he's not liquidating everything and shutting the whole factory down. It will remain open and people will still have their jobs. He just sold some "surplus" equipment and non-essential things....like the trees planted in the landscaping around the factory.
Seriously, the dude had the trees dug up and sold.
But he's not liquidating the factory to set up shop in India, honest!
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pastorofmuppets - 2018-08-01
The sad thing is he could be "right" in that his plastic business won't be competitive unless a lot of people get screwed. I can't imagine the margins on Chinese plastic are very high. Not defending him, but I feel like things are such that if you removed him another robber baron would take his place. We really love our plastic shit.
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