It’s purposeful. It’s a direct threat.

They could even be bluffing, but the implications to China are strong.

Who owns the government? Who controls them and forces them to maintain that low wage? Who is doing the exploitation of the people?

The government is an arm of corporate power. They are one and the same entity.

Also Walmart lost 3 billion last year to shoplifting. However their total profit, not revenue, straight profit, was 151 billion dollars.

Furthermore, if Walmart paid each of their employees 100 dollars an hour instead of 15, do you know what their profit would have been? 60 billion dollars lower, at 90 billion a year. Still more money then the GDP of many nations.

I could care less if someone steals from Walmart, you could empty out 500 stores worth of product from them overnight, and it wouldn’t even be enough to be more than a rounding error.

If you’d be interested, I’d recommend that you read “The Peoples Republic of Walmart”, you fall into several cleverly designed logical traps that massive corporations create in order to make themselves look guiltless, and that book clears up several misconceptions, and will truthfully open your eyes to how absolutely disgusting corporate/capitalist power is in the lives of citizens.

Sounds like you need some freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🇺🇸

Give me a second, I’m calling the US Army

They want you to be forced to not have children, but essentially breed to create more workers for them, and then they want you to live in poverty so that those future workers are forced to work low wage jobs, go to the military, or take on an absurd amount of debt.

This is also why they want to eliminate birth control and abortions.

Target has a deranged cult like atmosphere and they attempt to rename everything they can in order to build this air of importance and uniqueness.

Having worked there, I can say it’s a literal hell.

They call shopping “Doing a Run”, customers are “guests”, cashiers are “guest advocates, and so on.

Walmart isn’t a supermarket, only about 1/3rd of the store sells food, the other 2/3rds sell beauty products, cloths, electronics, TV’s, sewing supplies, paint, guns, appliances, garden equipment, toys, etc. Literally everything you will ever need in life can be sold at a Walmart.

That’s good! In my knowledge it is a very finicky and dangerous to play around with medication, so an over the counter would be great!

They usually have a pharmacy section with vitamins, first aid, condoms, and the like.

Plan B is not birth control, it’s an emergency contraceptive for dire situations.

Birth control can only (and should only) be prescribed by actual doctors.

How would you know the inner workings of embassies in the DPRK? You know absolutely nothing about how those apparti work and are simply spouting lines that sound nice because they align with what you want to believe, not what you know in reality.

Also what workarounds? Are you telling me that the average citizen in Guatemala, the US, South Africa, Iraq, Australia, China, or France has the ability to somehow work around the problems your disaster of a situation would create in the same manner that an International Intelligence Agency would???

Please detail how this plan would end in anything other then a disaster for everyone involved???

You do realize that there was a time for before embassies correct? And that embassies were created to avoid the long list of problems that exist when one of them doesn’t exist?

Also the legitimate functions far outweigh your ideas of spies and saboteurs, and they can be mitigated without the elimination of a vital service that would directly negatively impact the regular citizenry of nations.

So what’s takes the place of an embassy for the case of the population?

Or are you suggesting that no citizen in the global north or south will ever need a visa, wish to immigrate/emigrate, study internationally, preform business of any sort, pay taxes overseas, renew documents, get a work visa, or any of the hundreds of functions of an embassy???

Also the DPRK still allows foreign embassies, they funnily enough have a Swedish embassy in Pyongyang.

Also all those things you say that governments can do has already been done since the beginning of time with or without an embassy. I’m not saying they don’t do shitty things, but do you really think the CIA is going to implode if all embassies ceased to exist?

Understandable, I agree with your points, and I’m not saying the reason for the act was bad. I realize that I worded myself poorly, but I was attempting to say that the attacking of the embassy seemed like a disproportionate escalation in the face of the offense. Especially when the embassy has nothing at all do with the situation and is manned by innocent workers, of which the actual diplomats are a tiny percentage of.

I agree the act was hateful and done of malice against a people, but I struggle to see how escalating to the burning of a diplomatic embassy accomplishes anything.

Also Christian Atheists is an extremely weird oxymoron. How can one be atheist if they are Christian?

I’m not a Christian? Why would you assume that I would think differently if it was a Christian symbol being burnt or because it’s a Quran that I think lesser of Islam and think Islamic materials hold less worth then Christian ones?

I would feel the same way. It would be a bizarre attack that exposes the shittiness of the perpetrator, but one that is ultimately meaningless and not worth killing or pointlessly escalating over.

There are acts worth escalating over. The burning of a book is not one. Or burn a bunch of Bibles in retaliation, not an embassy.

Thank you for the update! I read an earlier version from an Iraqi source where they simply stated that the embassy was burnt and the location of diplomatic staff was unknown and a few were unaccounted for.

I guess that’s a major fall through with breaking news.

They don’t want condoms for the first reason you mentioned mainly. It’s so that they can’t have sex without consequence, and if they tried to do it, they’d get pregnant.

I’m sure hating gay people goes into the equation to.

What’s wrong with flag burning? I get that it’s nationalist pieces of shit doing it this time, but literally every other day there is a post here of people burning US, Israeli, UK, etc flags. If we can do it, then why get angry when the reactionaries do it too?

Also really? Burning a 5 dollar flag off of Amazon is equivalent to burning a building with people inside? That’s a fair retaliation? Even the Iraqi government issued a condemnation of the burning and offered to assist with repairing the damages.

But burning Qurans outside of a mosque is a wonderful pastime for our Nazi friends it seems. Literal human garbage.

It’s done on purpose. It’s things people need to survive. Clothing, baby food, sexual protection, toothpaste.

They know it’s cruel. But they don’t care, they know you have to buy those products, so they’ll squeeze every last penny they can get out of you, even if it’ll kill you.

Depends on the texture and thickness of your hair. But more often then not you would not want to use black product as it would ruin fine textured hair.

Some products can be used by many hair types, but the vast majority are for one hair type or another.

Yes, I am near a city in the US with a 60% black population.

It used to be a bustling hub with a population of 600,000 and it was a gleaming heart of transport, steel manufacturing, and industry.

As black people moved to the city, white flight began, and now the city is a shell and husk of its former self. A population of 50,000 is all that remains, all the industry has left and has rotted away, and the stores are all barricaded and closed down.

The black population are basically interned in a city turned into an massive camp, by police officers that come from wealthier neighborhoods outside the city. The neighborhoods surrounding the city have houses worth 5+ million dollars but they are separated from the city by bridges, highways, and impassable obstacles so that you can only each them by car.

The irony is palpable. Only probably 10% live in the rich houses. The rest live in hovels on the outskirts of the rich neighborhoods, and they delude themselves that they are part of the “in group”.

Yes, black hair requires very specific and specially formulated products then white hair, as the texture, roots, and form are completely different. White hair products would wreck havoc on black hair.

Fun fact, scopes, gun attachments, and some ammunition aren’t locked behind cages at Walmart. The gun rack doesn’t even have an attendant 95% of the time, you can just walk up.

You know what is locked behind bulletproof glass? Baby formula. Diapers. Toothpaste. Condoms. Shampoo. Bar soap. Plan B pills.

Specifically black haircare products and not white haircare products.

Socks and underwear

Pants and undershirts