It seems people will do absolutely anything except take their anger out on people who might deserve it.

Beat your wife and kids? OK

Run over brown people with your truck? Terrific idea

Shoot your boss? What, never

Well, I know why, it’s because the media rallies themselves to get you all riled up about the gays and the browns, so your rage won’t have any consequence

They do the same with Islamic extremists in eg Pakistan, funnel people into stupid fundamentalist orgs so they won’t look into Marxism, and bonus points, the extremist orgs you’re propping up will even hunt communists themselves, the same way conservatives in the US despise anything socialist (in the UK we don’t know what communists are, we just hate scroungers, trans and immigrints 😡)

Kind of following up from my post the other day about CEO salaries, still thinking about it, I honestly don’t get how senior management are able to kid themselves when they only earn £200k themselves, real serf behaviour

  • anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Going Postal specifically refers to the streak of post office shootings after the postal service was semi-privatized in the 1980s. All of a sudden, letter sorters were under HUGE pressure to fill quotas. Turns out a bunch of these letter sorters were also traumatized veterans. And boy do ya know it, WACKINESS ENSUED!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Oak_post_office_shootings

    This guy in 1991 got 4 members of management, who were universally reviled. After this, management positions were eliminated at that post office. So, critical support I guess?

    If it’s stupid and it works, it isn’t stupid theory-gary

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      9 months ago

      Holy fuck, that’s the post office I grew up going to in the 80s. We moved away before the shooting, but I remember the going postal scare in the news, I was 12 then. Somehow I missed that it happened in Royal oak (about 3 blocks from my grandmothers house).

      We were still going back there 1-2 times a year then too. In guess I was roughed oblivious or sheltered from it back then.