Good Dog RexApr 14
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Chamel Abdul Karim allegedly filmed himself burning a Kimberly-Clark warehouse in Ontario, CA. $750 million in damage. Ironically identical to what it would cost Kimberly-Clark to pay their 38,000 workers enough to live.

In human rights law, this is called structural violence. Institutions denying people what they need to survive, just as surely as physical force.

We criminalize Chamel’s response to that violence. We have not criminalized the violence itself.

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/all-you-had-to-do-was-pay-us-enough-to-live/

All You Had to Do Was Pay Us Enough to Live

The Kimberly-Clark warehouse fire isn’t just a crime story. It’s an economic injustice story. And corporate America wrote every word of it “All you had to do was pay us enough to live. All you had to do was pay us enough to live. There goes your inventory.

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid
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Show threadFlowermobApr 14
@QasimRashid #TaxCorportationsLikeEisenhower #TaxFairness
Show threadtiProtonApr 14
@QasimRashid Taxes are one thing but there is also the law.
The minimal wage in CA is $16/h. This yields about ½ the livable wage for 160h/month for a single person.
Those fixing the minimal wage have also made this choice.
Show threadGaëtan PerraultApr 14

@QasimRashid

(Note the link to "60% of Americans..." is down)

I feel like that data is really the center of this whole phenomenon and it's probably important to state this as it really is. This is most Americans.

5% is "some Americans"
25% is "many Americans"
60% is "MOST Americans"...

At some point, you don't need to use percentages any more. This isn't some fractional representation, it's most.

Most Americans don't have a savings buffer. Most Americans can't afford even basic healthcare costs under ACA. Most Americans can't afford to live.

Percentages are just a weak proxy for the word MOST. A statistic hiding the actual political advantage.

Show threadGondorApr 14
@QasimRashid
Isn't it ironic that you (just) would have to cut off the water(!) supply to sabotage one of these huge data centers? 🤔
Show threadchrimbusApr 14
@QasimRashid the luigi mangione of paper warehouse company. interesting that folks commit the fawkes and yet nothing changes. hmmm
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESApr 14

@QasimRashid

nota bene:

Ontario, CA means Ontario, *California*, not Ontario, Canada

i know, confusing place names

it's near LA

(as in Los Angeles, not Louisiana 😂 )

Show threaddecapitaeApr 15
@QasimRashid CEO's apparently have severe challenges to learning things they should know, maybe a little light will help them see?