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Aurora Borealis (lemmy.ml)
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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey guys whatever you do, don't read Burning Rage of A Dying Planet by Craig Rosebraugh, or Earth Liberation Front by Leslie James Pickering, don't watch Battle in Seattle, or If A Tree Falls or How To Blow Up A Pipeline or Battle of Algiers or The Baader-Meinhoff Complex, and definitely don't search for "Abu Khabbab al Misri filetype:pdf"

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Old school Monkey Wrench Gang checking in. Edward Abbey is showing me the way.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a jolly roger of a good time :)

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 month ago

wait is this really the seventh warehouse fire not known to be accidental in a week? and I'm only just finding out about this now?

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 month ago

There have been a number of warehouse fires, but not all of them are purposeful acts of arson by disgruntled proles.

One of them definitely is, that's the one at a paper warehouse, where the arsonist filmed himself saying "You should've paid your employees enough to live" while filming the blaze.

A couple others seem like they might be copycats but currently remain unconfirmed, and the rest were clearly accidents.

So, there isn't exactly a huge wave of Stochastic, proletarian arsons going on across America. But there clearly is a hunger for a kind of revenge against the wealthy, and this overhyped news cycle is a part of that.

Actual instances of Stochastic terrorism, like the killing of healthcare CEO Brian Thomson, or the recent attacks on the home of Sam Altman, in addition to the one confirmed warehouse arson, are also a part of that hunger for revenge.

That said, instead of doing an individual act of terrorism... Go organize your workplace, join an org, help out your neighbors, and do something more productive. Its not as sexy, but it is more useful.

[-] Tortellinius@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

"Organize your workplace and get collectively laid off"

Don't wanna be pessimistic but it never would've gotten this far is this was as easy as you said.

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

So, that's not a foregone conclusion, and even if it was, that's not an excuse to not try.

People used to get killed in the United States (and still do in the global south) for trying to unionize. I think you can take on some lighter risks than that

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[-] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

thomson and altman are the stochastic terrorists you fuckin moron

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Jesus Christ, you're really coming out swinging with the insults.

Sam Altman and co suck shit. I'm not denying that, or defending them, so idk why you're crawling up my ass about it.

But you're not the first person in this thread to have some real piss on the poor reading comprehension around the phrase "Stochastic Terrorism". All that phrase means, is that acts of terror are statistically more likely to occur due to the circumstances of a social, political, or media environment that encourages it. So someone who finds themselves in an environment where people say "Mass shootings are cool" isn't garunteed to go do one, but they are more likely to. We just can't predict who or when exactly someone will do a mass shooting about it.

Stochastic terrorism is in contrast to traditional terrorism, where actors engage in acts of terrorism which are organized, planned, and carried out, under orders from a political organization with an explicit structure. So someone in a cell gets orders from his superiors to blow up a guy's car next Sunday, wouldn't be Stochastic terrorism, because it's not a random individual carrying it out.

So, someone burning down a warehouse and saying "They should pay us more" is Stochastic.

A cell of a Basque nationalist organization carrying out an assassination of fascist Spain's Second in Command by blowing his car up, is not Stochastic.

Some workers in 1910 doing a propaganda of the deed where they randomly kill their boss? Stochastic.

The IRA setting off carbombs? Not Stochastic.

Rich people like Sam Altman using organs of the state to terrorize the working class? Also not Stochastic.

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[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

It's the media cycle.

They basically see "warehouse on fire" getting a lot of views, so they start reporting on other fires too, disregarding the actual cause of the fire".

Same happens with other stuff too. Statistically this isn't occuring more than normally, but because one occurrence got a lot of views, we see it reported more.

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[-] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 month ago

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within a warehouse?

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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why aren't the sprinker systems working in these warehouses? This is a huge osha violation

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

That's the truly heinous crime being committed here - putting workers at risk of direct death by lack of fire safety (on top of regular worker abuse).

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[-] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Why would they be working?

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 6 points 1 month ago

I've been wondering about this the entire goddamn time. What a liability lol

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[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Listen, I too am at the point of appreciating the attitude of "fuck it, burn it all down," as a symbolic cry of the times. However this post implies a localized wave of anti-capitalism-motivated arson, which is (and please correct me if I'm wrong) currently unsubstantiated beyond the one toilet paper warehouse that everyone has already heard about.

Until these fires are proven to be intentional and not accidents, this post is nothing more than misinformation, and misinformation gets an automatic downvote.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

How many warehouse fires are there in the average week? Statistics could be used to determine the odds of this being a nornal week or something unusual.

Though even if it is unusual, it could just as easily be a false flag intended to blame high prices on anything other than the situation in Iran.

Or maybe information could be gleamed from those gambling sites. Were there any bets about warehouse fires and did any event have sudden big bets for a new fire before it started?

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[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 13 points 1 month ago

How exciting!

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

🔥 Made in the USA 🔥

[-] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Okay maybe there is a left in los angeles.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Amazon’s burning approach to unsold and returned products

While it's fun to believe this is some kind of underground protest by the workers, it is far more likely that the Amazon policy of incinerating unsold goods to sidestep the cost of returns has created enormous fire hazards within their warehouses. This, combined with a chronic short-staffing of facilities, poor maintenance of infrastructure, and excess volume of returned goods due to the increasingly shoddy nature of their 3rd party vendors, puts all the pieces in place for routine self-inflicted arson.

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[-] agingelderly@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I once worked in a real piece of shit warehouse for a real piece of shit company who treated their workers like complete shit, and I regret not setting it on fire. (Briggs and Stratton)

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Luigi Day Parade on December 4th float/balloon ideas:

  1. Handsome Sweater Guy Balloon
  2. Burning Warehouse float
  3. Face and name wall of billionaires with addresses
  4. Netanyahu killing Charlie Kirk
  5. Killdozer
[-] DragonAce@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

"There goes your inventory"

[-] Francislewwis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Feels like everyone’s using the same event to push totally different narratives 😬

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

the only real narrative that matters is the consensus you and your neighborhood reach. all politics are local first

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

They're moving from mass shootings to mass warehouse fires... eventually they'll become civilized... the ones that are left.
Baby steps.

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