This socialist revenge porn from The Other 98% appears to be a made up narrative about a criminal act. Note: the following bust is not definitively corroborated and comes from unnamed sources, but is far more credible than the meme which rests on no evidence.
▪️This incident happened nearly 3 years ago at a trucking lot near Chicago. The driver was allegedly hired remotely just 4 days prior to the incident and had only completed one load before issues rose about his behavior.
▪️ Stories differ between him failing a drug test and being irrationally upset that he wasn’t driving a new truck, but whatever the reason the driver was summoned to be fired in person.
▪️Eyewitness sources say the owner offered to pay him for all his miles, reimburse for the items he bought like a mattress & trash can to outfit his truck, and even a plane ticket to get back home.
▪️The driver refused the accommodations and wanted to remain employed. But the owner insisted on termination and an argument ensued. The driver then allegedly asked if the Ferrari GTC4Lusso was the owner's.
▪️When confirmed, the trucker allegedly replied "Now you'll see what happens when you fuck with me," then ran towards an empty rig (not his), started it up and ran over the Ferrari.
▪️A source said the owner gave chase and was nearly run over by the truck. The police were then called and litigation allegedly proceeded. According to multiple trucker posts on FB, the company pays its truckers fairly and on time fwiw.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/33373/the-real-story-of-a-trucker-crushing-his-boss-ferrari-is-messier-than-you-think
https://www.carscoops.com/2020/05/angry-trucker-allegedly-drives-over-his-boss-ferrari-gtc4lusso-in-chicago/
▪️I was unable to find any reports since May 2020. Keep in mind, this was during the height of Covid hysteria which might help explain the remote hiring and crazy behavior.
▪️The left keeps using this meme but they don’t actually believe it. If you believe SNAP subsidizes companies to pay below a “living wage” this implies that if you take food stamps away they would suddenly pay a higher, “living” wage. So why not get rid of food stamps, then?!
▪️Except they know, and everyone knows, this isn’t true. Wages are set by supply and demand, not some mythical “living wage” metric. Absent food stamps there would actually be downward, not upward, pressure on wages, because the reality is food stamps subsidize the poor to not work as much as they might otherwise need to.
▪️Without SNAP, some low income people would need to work more hours to make ends meet, increasing the availability of low-skilled labor and lowering wages (all else being equal).
▪️Plus, we all know the left loves and supports food stamps. Which means, by this meme’s logic, they love to subsidize corporate profits. But they don’t really, they just think this ...
▪️Wait, this is the guy libertarians and the new right rave about being a great historian?! This sounds like a clueless meme from The Other 98%, except they wouldn’t add in the bizarre defense of feudal lords. Feudalism didn’t deprive peasants of their livelihoods for abstract goals? This is total fantasy.
▪️Amazon employs 1.55M, so this is less than 2% of their workforce, although these cuts will be to corporate, which employs 350k, so 8.5% of that. The CEO says there is an excess of bureaucracy at Amazon, and AI can automate certain repetitive tasks. Also, much of the cuts will be to HR, which is expected shrink by 15%, yay. Managers and HR are peasants now?
▪️I don’t know the inner workings of Amazon, and neither does Darryl, but this seems to be normal management practice to keep a company efficient and competitive. Given the immense size of Amazon the numbers look large, but far bigger shakeups happen all the time in the private sector. Apparently, under the new ...
▪️This statistic is just made up. The reality is that there hasn’t been a real study on this since 2013, when Pew did a poll. They found that Democrats were actually more than twice as likely as Republicans to report ever using food stamps (22% vs 10%).
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/07/12/the-politics-and-demographics-of-food-stamp-recipients/
▪️Obviously, those percentages could have changed over the past decade, but it’s very likely that Dems still receive more SNAP benefits. Certainly, without an actual study or poll the claim should be thrown out, as it wildly contradicts a previous study.
▪️The meme probably comes from a 2024 analysis by Social Explorer, which found that 78.7% of US counties with the largest increase in SNAP since 2010 voted for Trump in 2020. But that tells us nothing about the actual number of Republicans (or Democrats) who are receiving benefits, just county-wide trends.
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