This would be somewhat more appropriate if we were talking about a CEO who bought up the company and fired all the workers in order to sell the assets and line his pockets. This is more of a situation where a CEO fired a bunch of thugs for being thugs, then had the poor judgment to actually discuss the situation with the thugs in person, and try to come up with a decent resolution.
Ah, so that’s what he meant about douchebags. A bunch of cretins beat a guy to death while he was trying to offer them their jobs back. I’m not seeing the poetic justice you seem to be implying.
Hey I’m just pointing out the irony of a CEO being beaten by his employees.
I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.
… two, three, four …
You have to know the old joke that starts, “Two jawans and four militants walk into a bar…”
The Scripture can offer us some moral guidance here.
“Go thou and do likewise.”
I have to say aankh, that I think you’re being a tad harsh here (although this incident is pretty nasty and there are plenty of nasty things happening in India).
I wandered around many museums in India straining to read the typewritten correspondence of India’s pre-independence leaders. It was moving stuff. There were many extraordinary disinterested public intellectuals involved in the birth of India. And they might be saddened by many things today.
But to be so down on India now is to avoid the long view. Post the Scottish enlightenment of the 18th century, lots of bad things like this happened in Britain, and for a long time. Progress takes time. The founders of India did manage to create an enduring civil state. It has real elections. Peaceful transitions of government. Continuity of government. Zero coups even in deeply troubled times. It has a genuine judiciary. A free press. There are rising standards of living.
India is doing very well, considering.
Oh Star Wars! No wonder I didn’t get it. Not my choice of fandom. And, to be honest, I had to wiki Tusken Raiders. 
Don’t be man. I’m leading a gloriously contented, financially stable, happily married yuppie life in a comfortable country. It’s only people like me who ran away that have luxury of all that sentimental flatulence.
India is a gorgeous place culturally and historically. I don’t think anywhere else on earth can match up to the unimaginable cultural diversity that has existed on that patch of subcontinent over the last 4000 years. Sixty years into independence as a (finally) unified nation, with all those hundreds of millions of different peoples knitted together, there are clearly teething problems. Time and (oh god, please oh please oh please!) good governance should take care of them.
When you get into reading the details, you know the actual human being who had a family, loved his mother, who’s favorite color was blue and was working to cure cancer and stop all bad things in his spare time, naturally it is not funny. Conceptually, though, the idea of workers putting the smackdown on the filthy capitalist that fired them is pretty goddamn hilarious. I think that you people that are just SHOCKED (SHOCKED!) that anyone could find this funny are straight up being dishonest and should be ashamed of yourselves.
I thought the “funny” part was the sullying India’s image…gee, ya think? It just seems a little giggleworthy in its understatementness.
But it was the merest of ironic giggles, I swear. And aankh’s post quickly moved it to a saddened sigh.
Hmm, I wonder how much it would cost to buy 500 plane tickets from Delhi to Lehman Bros. HQ.
I wear the scarlet A with pride. You filthy hippy.
I thought it was the scarlet “A = A.”
Aww, isn’t that special? I’m glad you’re used to it by now.
Plenty of non-hippies find Rand risible. And I think it’s amusing that you keep throwing the h word around when your views are actually more dated and locked in time as the hippie lifestyle is.
Nobody expe…oh never mind
Absolutely. Things are going very well, considering. Has there been infrastructural progress? Hell, yes! Have first-world conveniences made inroads into the country? You bet!
But you have to live the life of a middle-class Indian in India to know how it feels to be in the trenches. I won’t even bother talking about the lower economic classes, because…just nevermind.
How it feels to fight for every inch you can get, how it feels to line up for hours every month for the few kilograms of government-subsidised sugar and oil at the neighbourood provision store, how it feels to watch a 70 year old roadside vegetable-seller bribe the neighbourhood goon so she’ll be left alone, how it feels to stop at a traffic signal and have a knee-high hungry child in rags come beg you for a few rupees.
That’s the shit I ran away from. That’s the shit my parents have risen above thanks to their drive and ability. They get to enjoy the bright lights and malls and that whole lifestyle that India offers now, but none of the other bullshit is gone. It’s all there and other people are living it now. Not me, not mine.
Sure. See, a person is absolutely entitled to his or her job for life. Therefore, when an employer fires an employee, the employer has done something bad to the employee, which of course justifies the employees doing something bad to the employer.
In other words, it’s like RAAAAAIIIIIIIINNNNN on you wedding day.
And when I re-read your post, Hawthorne, I realised you made the ‘it takes time’ argument. Coincidentally, I was typing the *exact * same thing in reply to **outlierrn ** while you were composing your post. I agree with you entirely. It takes time.
Bullshit. Ironic does not equal funny. Even if you accept the fact that it is ironic that a guy who fired someone gets killed by the same person is ironic, that doesn’t make it funny. It just makes it ironic.
Isn’t it ironic, don’tcha think?
Shocked you are! Clutching your pearls ever. That anyone could be so insensitive. :rolleyes: