Our Society is Imploding

[angrychair]

In a Amazon warehouse in Oregon a worker collapsed and lay their and died and no one raised a finger to try and help. They all just kept working and ignored the dead body for over an hour until EMTs arrived.

Robert Preston Morris, a pedophile pastor of a Texas megachurch and former religious advisor to Mango Mussolini (why does this guy surrounded himself with pedophiles?!?) who molested a child for years, gets 6 months in jail and now gets to live in his fancy lakeside house while his victim has had to suffer for years and her problems don't go away after 6 months.

We currently have a president who is a pedophile and a DOJ that is actively protecting him and other pedophiles. Literally violating a law that requires them to turn over everything and still to this day refusing to release the remaining 3 million+ files that no one has ever seen. The largest cover up in US history and likely one of the largest and most elaborate crime rings in the history of the world. Yet American society just keeps going to work and about their lives and do next to nothing to change anything while the pedophiles keep living like they are above the law...because they are.

Our society is Imploding and we, that same society, are just standing their watching it die and when it does I know it will just step over the corpse like it doesn't matter because it's already shown its willingness to do just that.

[Disaffected]

1. Really. If someone a few years ago had written an article depicting all that,

it would likely be dismissed as being absurd and far-fetched.

[Eugene]

2. There's a lot more to that death at Amazon.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility (The Western Edge)

For more than an hour, several employees said, workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out their next steps. News of the fatality quickly spread through the building, but workers say top managers did not call operations to an immediate halt. A week later, several workers said they still do not know what caused the man to die. Amazon said in a statement Tuesday that the man died from a “pre-existing medical condition.” Records indicate he was 46 years old.

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A coworker administering CPR asked for more help. Managers turned away a volunteer, insisting that they wait for the corporate response team to act.

Work at the warehouse continued for two hours after the death. Managers sent the workers home with the promise of pay for the rest of the work day. They haven't received that yet.

Amazon belatedly issued a public statement, stating that they are deeply saddened by the incident and that workers will be offered counseling.

[fujiyamasan]

3. Complete race to the bottom

This sounds like something out of the gilded age, where rapid industrialization was just taking root. It was a time before we had any worker protections, union labor, or even child labor laws — this is basically the era republicans want to take us back to.

It’s also the sort of story we’d expect to hear from modern day China or India (although I wouldn’t be surprised if even they tolerate this).

We’re now conditioned to believe this is normal.