this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Unfortunately this was in Ireland so it may not be replicable in the US.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

God fucking damnit. I was about to celebrate.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still worth of celebration, any workers victory should be celebrated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

You're right. Thanks for re-framing it. It's awesome that someone went up against that rich asshole and won.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You should still celebrate. It’s a win for the working class collective.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A highly paid exec is hardly an example of "working class collective".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Unless you're an American Twitter employee— in which case, my condolences— I don't see how this is less worthy of celebration.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, there are 34 other works dismissed this way in Ireland - so at least the potential for further damages is schadenfreudific.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not really applicable here: Schadenfraudacious

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

It's unfortunate they couldn't use a Euro figure which would have made it much clearer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's funny how USAians think of themselves as the most "freedom". Not even close.

But it's sad how everywhere else has to fear imperialism, colonialism, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It makes a lot more sense if you reframe it as freedom for rich white landowners in the 1800s to not have to pay taxes to King George, not so much for the peons, paupers and slaves.