A lot of Texas Republicans too-- we hope.

Seriously, when are we going to start doing this shit? Though I'm sure the government would bring more than food and water.

We won't. The rich have already convinced the lower classes of the Divine Right of Wealthy People, and most of the factories in China are there because the ones in the U.S. are already closed.

between every union being wiretapped and almost guaranteed swat raid if a rich person is taken hostage, chancer are between 1% and 0%

About 4 years ago a friend of mine got bme some extra work at a call center that did surveys (no cold calling at least, but it was still shitty). Three weeks later, without an warning, 15 minutes before closing time on the Friday before the Thanksgiving vacation week, they sent someone in to tell the general manager - who had two kids and a mortgage - that he was fired, they were moving the center to India, and he had to fire 65 people working under him in the next 10 minutes. I had another job but a lot of people there didn't. about half a dozen of them somewhat seriously discussed staying in the office and refusing to leave, but in abut 10 minutes they decided they'd rather go out and get drunk.

That's what it's like when this happens in New England.

I think at least riots are coming.

Americans know how to destroy shit. We just don't do the smart thing and go after the rich like they do in like, everywhere else. We believe in taking it out on those that can barely afford their convenience stores.

Of course riots are coming, it's almost football season.

Had this been an American factory, the owners would have been untouched. The workers, being of two different political parties, would have killed each other in the name of fucking over the owners instead, then blamed each other when that didn't work.

"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.

A billionaire CEO, a union worker, and a middle American sit down to a table of 20 cookies. The CEO grabs 18 cookies while the other two are left with one.

The CEO then leans over to the middle American and whispers, "The union guy wants a piece of your cookie!"

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.

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.

Wow didn't even notice the tags when i wrote that.

HAHAHA!

The Chinese had thousands of years of repression they said! They are beat down, subjugated robots they said! We can just stack them into Borg Cube bunkhouses placed 20 high they said! They know that if they so much as LOOK at us they'll be beaten half to death and chucked on the streets they said!

That last part really churns my stomach because that's real. They have their Plantation Owner RP that's anything BUT RP over there. The workers are -forbidden- to look at them. You cast your fucking gaze down in their presence or else. Because I guess it's a power fantasy to see yourself as an ascended grand pubaa that would be made to fill filthy if tainted with the gaze of low born peasant rabble.

That whole "lower your eyes" thing goes back to the Imperial court. The only thing that's changed since Communism was ending the imperial dynasties for good so the real powers behind the scenes could operate in the open.