General Discussion

Not sure how some of these people got as far as they did without learning some basic lessons.

I have never worked anywhere where I could run around, disrupt work, argue with co-workers, and dump my politics all over everyone around me and expect to retain my job. Like, what is this line? "The corporation is attempting to quash dissent, silence its workers and reassert its power over them."

Yeah. You don't get disruptive performative political activities at work. That is not how that works.

I was watching/listening to some interviews with these people last week, and they seem genuinely baffled that company officers didn't watch the tantrum and come down with, "How can we give you what you want?"

Remove the Israel/Gaza stuff for the moment. It's just interesting to watch. These are ostensibly adults. How privileged must their lives be that anything that follows their actions is a surprise for them? I was watching a Columbia student yesterday who just could not believe people were arrested for breaking the law. Have you ever heard such a thing? Arrests for law-breaking? Outrageous!

All I can think is that they're used to other areas of their lives (probably indulgent parents and college) where adults and higher ups acquiesced to these kinds of tantrums on the regular.

I guess learning this lesson sooner rather than later will probably serve them better.