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A particularly headline-grabbing protest was staged last weekend at the Home Depot in Monrovia, California, a location picked because it’s where Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdés, 52, from Guatemala died on the freeway after being hit by an SUV while running from an ICE raid. Last weekend, protesters walked into the store en masse, picked up $0.17 ice scrapers (get it?), bought them one by one, then queued up again to return each purchased tool. This was all perfectly legal, but it created retail chaos: enormous, slow-moving lines. The checkout-clogging action ultimately forced the location to temporarily close.

all perfectly legal, but it created retail chaos: enormous, slow-moving lines. The checkout-clogging action ultimately forced the location to temporarily close.

And who was hurt by this demonstration? The low paid staff in the store that had to deal with the chaos. The honchos at corporate care not one whit.

Steve

So now it’s Home Depot’s fault?

Translation:

"Dumbass Law Breaker Unalives Himself Fleeing from Law Enforcement & Running Down the Middle of a Busy Highway; Paid Activists Cause Chaos To Get Media Attention Due To Extreme Narcissism, Causing Store Where Poor and Working Class People Earn Their Living To Shut Down, Denying The Poor and Working Class People They Claim To Care About the Ability to Earn a Living."

Paid Activists Cause Chaos To Get Media Attention Due To Extreme Narcissism, Causing Store Where Poor and Working Class People Earn Their Living To Shut Down, Denying The Poor and Working Class People They Claim To Care About the Ability to Earn a Living."

They don’t care who gets hurt so long as they can feel good about themselves. You nailed it - narcissism is a core leftist trait.

Yeah it's pretty much well accepted by the people who study Cluster B personality disorders that one of the most insidious forms of narcissistic personality disorder is "communal narcissism."

These are the folks like are very own ProGlibs who are very performative about claiming to care about society, the other, social causes, and so forth, and this is how they get their narcissistic supply and prop up their grandiose false self. That's why they're so insufferable and seem to be clueless, because they actually lack any true emotional empathy. The do have "cognitive empathy" which is an intellectual understanding of what empathy is, but they don't actually know what it feels like. It's all performative again to prop up their overinflated grandiose false self that they present to the world as a defense mechanism against a traumatized inner self which they are unable to connect to due to childhood trauma or negligent parenting or abuse of some kind. It forms in early childhood.

This is why they seem so utterly clueless to us "normies." They have no real empathy for actual individuals such as Sarah the murdered National Guard trooper nor her family. Not even for five seconds.

For them, it's all about proclaiming how morally superior they are to "MAGA" and "Trump", and they get their narcissistic supply from each other and like minded folks in the MSM and on social media.

They believe they are simply superior in every way to everyone else, even the people they claim to care about.

Since they lack real empathy, they are clueless to real emotions. That's why the dum dum who started this thread was unable to reflect on the fact that the "chaos" his political friends caused at the Home Depot actually hurt the people he claims to care about. He doesn't care about them. He doesn't care about any of the people they post about.

All he cares about is signalling his superiority and getting confirmatory social media posts from other communal narcissists to inflate his grandiose false self.

no one should be so deluded as to think a single clever\peaceful\inspirational action scares corporates.
join the bigger one :

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The honchos at corporate care not one whit.

Is their bonus based on the bottom line? They care a little, enough to get the proles mad at those folks in line. After all, we have the best pollies money can buy.

So now it’s Home Depot’s fault?

Community organizers and local residents protested at a Home Depot in Monrovia, California, this weekend to pressure the company to demand ICE stop using its parking lots for raids at its stores.

ICE can stand at the curb like all the others.

These dum dums--who are undoubtedly paid activists, as normal people have to go to work and school, not waste time at these idiotic performative demonstrations--can protest all they want if they do so peacefully and if they do not interfere with Home Depot's business, its customers' access to the store, or its employees ability to do their jobs.

Dum dums who do so are trespassing and should be arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

You obviously do not understand what a "boycott" is. A "boycott" is when people do not patronize a business establishment in protest of (not sure what the protest is about in this case?)

Interfering with others who wish to shop there, or the employees, sounds like criminal trespass at the least.

You know, you guys already caused the death of one of the people you claim to care about by encouraging him not to cooperate with ICE and to actively flee ICE.

You scared the poor man so much he ran into the road and was struck down.

Nice job, losers! NICE. JOB.

Lambo,

The corporate honchos certainly do not care one little bit about criminal illegal aliens or criminal paid protestors who scare the bejesus out of those illegal aliens, inducing them to flee ICE in a panic resulting in their death.

They undoubtedly regard such people who unnecessary cause such deaths to be scum.

Community organizers and local residents protested at a Home Depot in Monrovia, California, this weekend to pressure the company to demand ICE stop using its parking lots for raids at its stores.

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HD can make no such demand since they are a tenant just like the other tenants who share the parking lot. The protesters should take it up with the landlord.

HD has more of a right to utilize the parking lot than do the protesters.

The protesters are hurting their cause by aggravating the normies, the would be customers whose shopping is being disrupted. I am sure they will remember this when voting season rolls around.

who are undoubtedly paid activists, as normal people have to go to work and school, not waste time at these idiotic performative demonstrations

So are you a paid activist? After all, you’re here at all hours of the day and night. And normal people would be going to school or work, not wasting time posting on an idiotic message board day in and day out.

—Peter

Where Poor and Working Class People Earn Their Living To Shut Down, Denying The Poor and Working Class People They Claim To Care About the Ability to Earn a Living."

The Proles are always being used. How many "JCs" have we heard demanding a government bailout for their bad decision making, otherwise they will "put tens of thousands of Proles out of work"?

Steve

Netsifter on Loyalist views of Colonial boycotts:

Loyalists criticized patriot boycotts for being destructive, irrational, and coercive, believing they harmed the colonists' own property and trade more than they hurt the British. They viewed the boycotts as a form of mob rule by self-interested patriots, which they believed would lead to anarchy and the ruin of the colonies through separation from the British Empire. Loyalists argued that the colonists' grievances did not justify such extreme actions and that peaceful reconciliation with Britain was a safer and more sensible path.
Arguments against patriot boycotts
Economic harm: Loyalists argued that non-importation agreements hurt American merchants and traders more than they hurt the British, as they damaged local businesses and the colonial economy.
Coercion and hypocrisy: They saw the enforcement of boycotts by patriot committees as a form of tyranny, where the patriots assumed and exercised power without authority, charging them with hypocrisy.
Mob rule: Many Loyalists, often from more conservative or wealthier backgrounds, feared the "mob violence" associated with patriot protests, believing it threatened their property and social order.
Irrationality and immaturity: Loyalists viewed actions like the Boston Tea Party as childish and a sign that patriots were mistaken about their ability to get everything they wanted, and that a united British Empire was beneficial.
Threat to stability: They believed separation from Britain would be foolhardy and lead to the financial ruin of America by severing ties with the world's largest trade empire.
Threat to rights: Some Loyalists feared that the "anarchy" of independence would ultimately destroy the very rights the patriots claimed to be fighting for.

Because there’s nothing new under the sun.

HD can make no such demand since they are a tenant just like the other tenants who share the parking lot. The protesters should take it up with the landlord.

That's incorrect. Try again.

lol. You people aren’t patriots.

But it’s telling the left thinks it’s mounting some sort of revolution.

Peter,

Only an idiot or someone getting paid for it would be out in the street making a fool out of themselves to get attention, encouraging immigrants to run out into traffic to avoid law enforcement, in essence killing people and then being proud of it.

So, they may be idiots.

Posting on the internet is easy, being an idiot and convincing immigrants to run into traffic takes too much effort for me.

Not for you I guess.

Wzbaloney,

Would you please stop posting walls of A.I. garbage text? Why do so many of you ProGlibs do this?

It's annoying.

Turn your brain on and think for yourself for a change.

Can you?

OK I'll try again:

Arrest them all, they are blocking traffic and blocking commerce.

30 days in the local lock up seems about right.

HD can make no such demand since they are a tenant just like the other tenants who share the parking lot.

Home Depot owns about 90% of the land below their stores. The only ones they don’t own are those where there is no suitable land available for them to buy and they are forced to rent. As such, they are responsible for what goes on in the parking lots. (Former HD investor here. You could look it up! <—-Yogi)

The honchos at corporate care not one whit.

Really? You think the lunch counter protests by blacks didn’t cause Kresges and Woolwoorths change their store policies?

The reality is that protests always inconvenience somebody . If it doesn’t, nobody notices. The best one I heard about - which never happened because it worked before they had to do it - was prior to the 1968 Democratic Convention when the NAACP was unhappy with things going on in Mayor Daley’s office. They leaked (pun intended) their plans to have hundreds of male members come to O’Hare and stand in front of urinals. And stand. And stand.

Of course this would cause chaos just as the conventioneers were arriving and was perfectly legal. There was/is no law saying how long you can stand while taking a whizz. Daley’s office quickly came to the table, settled the grievance, and all was well.

Ah, the golden (pun intended, again) age of protest.

None of these protests which capture so much MSM and social media attention are in any way organic.

That's the problem. It's all artifice. It's all orchestrated.

It's ersatz. Faux. Performative.

Something is seriously wrong with the kind of people who believe that terrorizing an illegal immigrant to the point where, instead of simply and peacefully allowing himself to be apprehended by ICE, he runs into the street into traffic and gets killed.

The protestors are responsible for that death. The protestors deliberately hyped up the fear level to create terror.

If your protests involve someone getting killed, you're doing it wrong.

None of these protests which capture so much MSM and social media attention are in any way organic.

Horseshit

Pastor Road Apples,

No need to virtually finger paint with the feces from your diaper.

You've already covered over the entire Internet.

Really? You think the lunch counter protests by blacks didn’t cause Kresges and Woolwoorths change their store policies?

Did it, really, without the companies receiving pressure from above? And what of the people working at those lunch counters. Working in retail, in a public-facing job, sux enough as it is.

Steve

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