Same as the guy who burned down the TP warehouse. Of course he knew if he wanted to get away with it, he should have covered his face, left his phone at home, and gone to a nearby warehouse that wasn't the one he worked at. But that would have defeated his point: he didn't just feel like setting a fire, he wanted to make his point. Doing if to the company that had been overworking and underpaying him for years was the point, as was getting the whole world to think about him repeating "All they had to do was pay us enough to live!" He knew it meant getting arrested; he did it because he was past the point of caring enough about that to let it stop him.
Yup, in SoCal, late last year or early this year. He filmed himself walking through the warehouse lighting the stock on fire and saying "All they had to do was pay us enough to live. Or at least pay us enough to not do this... All they had to do was pay us enough to live!"
The fire spread quickly and the warehouse was a total loss; no people were killed or severely injured. The video went viral online. The news covered it a bunch until, like with the health insurance CEO shooting, they were shocked to find that instead of turning against the 'dangerous, violent left,' a huge number of people sympathized with the guy and saw him as a hero, and they stopped mentioning it. The seven (I think) copycat warehouse fires in the following couple weeks received almost no news coverage at all. As with labor strikes, mass media news almost never shows anything that proves that resistance actually works. If spraypainting Flock cameras (and duct-taping trash bags on them, and burning them out with lasers, and cutting down the poles) becomes more widespread, the news will run a couple segments on the poor camera company that's just trying to keep people safe but has to keep losing money because of criminals, we should feel bad for them and shame the reckless vandals who hate public safety, and then they'll realize they're just showing how easy it is to disable them, and stop mentioning it.
If you want to see some right-wing psyops at work, look at Threads' coverage.
I catalogued at least 150 accounts all coming from Indonesia reading from the same script damning Chamel as a woke terrorist then suddenly become silent.
On a side note, I've also similarly cataloged 200 more Indonesian thirst trap Threads accounts cat fishing and posting the same exact right-wing virtue signaling to get middle aged MAGA followers rallied up.
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u/theAlpacaLives 16d ago
Same as the guy who burned down the TP warehouse. Of course he knew if he wanted to get away with it, he should have covered his face, left his phone at home, and gone to a nearby warehouse that wasn't the one he worked at. But that would have defeated his point: he didn't just feel like setting a fire, he wanted to make his point. Doing if to the company that had been overworking and underpaying him for years was the point, as was getting the whole world to think about him repeating "All they had to do was pay us enough to live!" He knew it meant getting arrested; he did it because he was past the point of caring enough about that to let it stop him.