Nebraska mom Jamie Bonkiewicz filmed her interaction with Secret Service agents who came to her door because of a tweet. "The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now," she wrote on X in a thread about the ordeal. "For anyo...

“The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now,” she wrote on X in a thread about the ordeal.

She was asked about the comments she made online, and she made it clear, “I want to see their trials.”

  • pageflight@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    Making worthless widgets for corporate overlords for a paycheck? Sure, I sympathize. Taking other’s livelihoods, safety, and comfort so you can have your own? Nope.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      The problem is. When it comes to authoritarian states of any flavor, capitalist or otherwise. It all starts to become the same thing. Where were the resources for the widgets unfairly extracted from. And how exploited are the ones making them. But absolutely yeah.

      • pageflight@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yep. Was it Marx — “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”?

        Tangent but maybe not actually Marx:

        The phrase has been around in political circles and on the internet for decades, and it doesn’t appear to have a single originator. It is widely believed to be an amalgamation of ideas from Karl Marx, simmered down into a phrase that people can easily remember.