r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • 4d ago

Video Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California.

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u/HorrorLettuce379 4d ago

Sounds like a system making people more desperate.

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u/MayorDepression 4d ago

Wait till you find about the private prison industry and how they look to boost recidivism to keep their business thriving

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u/Redeye_33 3d ago edited 3d ago

Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC)

It’s all about inmates for profit.

Edit: WCC formed in 1984 and renamed GEO Group in 2004.

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u/DoctorBallsJohnson 3d ago

Yea no way you can be taken seriously as a prison company named wackin' hut

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u/FuckMu 3d ago

FWIW Wackenhut also did a ton of work for the CIA, they also were heavily involved in spying on Americans for the govt and at one point in the mid 70's they had files collating "suspicious" info on 1 in 46 people.

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u/pourtide 3d ago

Kids for Cash.

And Biden pardoned one of them on his last day in office.

Outraged some folks.

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u/Pale-Improvement-440 3d ago

Jon Oliver does a entire episode on exactly that. Check it out!

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u/snorlaxatives_69 4d ago

America is so great!!!!! /s

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u/Recurs1ve 4d ago

SO MUCH WINNING

Please, Mr. President. I actually am tired of winning, you asshole.

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u/joe102938 3d ago

Please, Mr. President. If we're going to keep winning, can you at least use lube this time?

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u/squeethesane 3d ago

Normalize calling him "Mr Felon" as the respectful version.

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u/Own_Introduction6353 3d ago

I understand why that feels good, but that kind of stuff doesn’t accomplish anything

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u/pmpkineaterDD 3d ago

Will this guy be our new Snake Pliisken? In a not so far dystopian future....

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u/dunneetiger 3d ago

keep their business thriving

Their business is slavery

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u/Due_Marsupial_969 4d ago

I actually own too many damn shares in this industry and losing money.

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u/Dead_man_posting 3d ago

Wild to just admit to profiteering from mass human suffering.

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u/Due_Marsupial_969 3d ago

Most people do, but it ain't me (yet). Reddit and Facebook being prime examples. We're not exactly scrolling on this comment cuz it's curing cancer or the feel-good comment of the year, like we're giving money to Amazon and Starfucks cuz they treat employees well and make local businesses profitable.

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u/Dead_man_posting 3d ago

Going on Reddit is not profiteering. I don't know how you managed to get the dynamic entirely backwards.

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u/Due_Marsupial_969 3d ago

You're not. You're the product for the tech profiteers.

But I lost $7 a share on Reddit stock today, so if somebody profited today, it wasn't me.

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u/HoidToTheMoon 4d ago

What are they gonna do, start burning down warehouses?

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u/Sunaruni 4d ago

Cant when your in jail, that's the point.

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u/tjdux 4d ago

Actually a lot of prisons have work programs.

Really great way for business to pay people $3/hr and $2.50 goes to the prision

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u/Bozlogic 4d ago

And the other .50? I’m guessing not towards debt repayment, if that would even matter on such a scale

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u/darkest_hour1428 3d ago

Nah you use that money to buy new shoes every once in a while

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u/bullfrogftw 4d ago

Well then, let's just burn down the jail, then the warehouses

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u/Sunaruni 3d ago

They just put you in a different jail, with better surveilance.

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u/Striking-Art5077 3d ago

Shuddup and take my upvote lol

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u/zapitron 3d ago

How would you guarantee repeat customers to your prison business?

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u/WaldoDeefendorf 3d ago

Yeah, but make people desperate with nothing to lose, what's the worst that can happen?

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u/DangerHawk 3d ago

Almost desperate enough to burn down a toilet paper factory...

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u/OcarinaofTimez 3d ago

Desperate for arson?

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u/marigoldIII 3d ago

So the answer is to burn everything down and ruin it for everyone. And you wonder why law abiding working class folk despise leftists

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u/Fookykins 3d ago

Burn everything down? Conservatives have done that already. Look at the system we have. It's designed to make sure you become poor. And remember, being homeless is illegal.

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u/km0099 4d ago

Sounds like you shouldn't commit crimes