r/Political_Revolution • u/EarthTeen • 3d ago

Article America is fucked NSFW

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A CEO, who bankrupted and murdered thousands for profit, is killed and terrorism charges are put on the assassin.

A working woman is burned alive, and the police walk by.

In capitalism, the value of your life depends entirely on how much money you make. The USA is such a fucked up country

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u/w3are138 3d ago

In the first photo he looks like a bright spot amongst encroaching darkness. The second photo, well, I guess she wasn’t a CEO. If she was a CEO the cops would’ve used their own bodies to put out the flames. But she was poor so they just let her burn to death.

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u/AccordingMark5944 2d ago

Have they identified her?

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u/w3are138 2d ago

No. I just checked. It seems she was likely homeless so they’re struggling to ID her. No one reporting her missing because no one cared about her is one factor. It’s so messed up. Like being homeless and having to resort to getting a little bit of sleep on the F train wasn’t already bad enough, now you’ve got some guy setting her on fire and she burns to death. Like what the actual.

Apparently both cops and bystanders did nothing, many of them filming on their phones, because of what they’re calling “the Daniel Penny effect”. No one wanted to get involved and possibly have their lives affected.

Although I’m not sure what bystanders could have done considering so much of our clothing is highly flammable these days due to the materials used in fast fashion. Polyester is literally plastic and when it burns it MELTS. I studied textiles in college and one of the ways we test fabrics is by burning a little piece of them or some of their threads. Natural fibers turn to ash when they burn. But not synthetics like polyester.

I cannot express how disturbed I was the first time I saw how polyester burned. It burns fast and it turns into a molten plastic goo. All I could think was my god, what would happen if this fabric caught fire when someone was wearing it? It would melt into their skin. I never used synthetic fabrics in my designs after that and I avoided wearing them as much as possible. These fibers are so pervasive these days it’s difficult to avoid them, and almost impossible to if you’re poor. So many blankets are made of that shit too. It should be way more regulated but it’s not.

Anyway, my point being that If someone tried to smother the flames with a polyester coat it would likely just make it much worse. It would be like trying to put the flames out with a plastic sheet.

Sorry for the rant about polyester/plastic fibers but it was all I could think about when I saw this story. Knowing how pervasive that fabric is bc it’s cheap to manufacture, knowing that she was very likely wearing it, and knowing EXACTLY how it burns really messed with me.

Idk if anyone has any recommendations aside from call for help and/or run to find the nearest fire extinguisher. What more could people have done to help?

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u/Eellliottt 1d ago

Run fast and knock people out of the way, thats another Pulitzer photo that shouldn't exist. Cops got pepper spray, no fire extinguisher, a little different than the deathtraps I build but we get whats left after they hit the stock market to clean it off on some hideouts they're gonna die in, it just sucks