Bangladesh factory bosses: Never mind those cracks, get to work!

[Boom_70]

George Harrison weeps.

 

[YankeeFan]

This took one random-assed turn.

Sorry. Selective outrage just gets old -- especially when it comes with moral smugness.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

This took one random-assed turn.

Sorry. Selective outrage just gets old -- especially when it comes with moral smugness.

Eh. Everyone's selectively outraged or selectively blind about something. Multiple somethings, usually. X does it, yay! Y does it, boo! It's a sad commentary on human nature, but inconsistency is our trademark. That and finding new uses for bacon.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I don't think there's any purity test required to be outraged at hundreds dying in a building collapse that was avoidable.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

People getting exploited is cool when I get entertained.

That's Baron's take.

He wants to lecture, and act like he's appalled by the working conditions in a country he couldn't find on a map, but when it comes to his own entertainment, he could give a ****.

People are dying so you can buy a cheap shirt at Walmart!

Well, people are dying so your comic book action heroes can play out their soap opera story lines for you on TV.

You have no moral high ground. If you want some credibility on the issue, an least abandon your fanboi feelings for Vince and the WWE.

If you'd bothered to read the list, you would have seen that the vast majority of the wrestlers on there died from something other than things caused by the WWE. 12 of the 24 died from natural causes, or diseases that anyone can have.

And of the other 12, one was murdered, two committed suicide, one died of post-op complications from an injury not sustained in a WWE ring (you do realize there's other companies out there, right?) and three of them either never worked for, or barely worked for WWE. So that's another 7.

And of the remaining five, two of them died more than a decade after working for WWE, and they were all reputedly using drugs. Two of them also were obese as well.

If you want to say that WWE should have taken a greater interest in their performers' post-WWE health much sooner, I would agree with you. But they didn't because McMahon had a lassez-faire (sp?) attitude which could have been changed two ways: 1 By unionization, which didn't happen, and/or 2. government intervention. They finally changed by the threat of government intervention. McMahon didn't want to have to raise his right hand before a committee like Roger Goodell had to do.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Natural causes, eh?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Amazes me how little coverage huge events get when they occur in impoverished third world locations.

Mainstream news sites like MSNBC, CNN, etc. all had barely a word about this on their front pages when last I checked, despite the fact that it is an ENORMOUS tragedy: at last count more than 340 confirmed dead with around 900 more still missing or buried under the rubble. That's over a thousand lives likely lost by this, more than a third the body count of 9/11.

Can't imagine how huge this story would be if it occurred here or in Western Europe.

Timing can be a *****.

The Waco explosion got swamped by the news out of Boston.

And, this story can't compete with the breathless coverage of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

For something to break through, and get coverage against a story like that, it has to be something really important, like learning whether or not Jill Abramson is a meanie, or speculating about who will get mentioned in Mark Leibovich's new book.

Same with that Philly doctor the right is frothing about. And Benghazi. Too bad, some other news got in the way. Deal with it.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

This took one random-assed turn.

Sorry. Selective outrage just gets old -- especially when it comes with moral smugness.

You've just described the right's outrage over Benghazi.

 

[JC]

My god Baron if Vince McMahon were the CEO of any other company you would hate the man. He treats his employees like ****. It's not just about dead wrestlers its about wrestlers who have to pay for there own surgeries once Vince is done with them, it's about the working conditions they have to work under. They can't put there bodies through the **** they do without painkillers.

You are by far the biggest hypocrite on this board. McMahon is everything you hate in every other high level republican business owner but his real life action figures entertain you so it is perfectly acceptable. You even buy the BS he sells.

 

[Boom_70]

Intriguing how these events always seem to line up in a right or left manor without anyone even getting a memo.

 

[dooley_womack1]

My god Baron if Vince McMahon were the CEO of any other company you would hate the man. He treats his employees like ****. It's not just about dead wrestlers its about wrestlers who have to pay for there own surgeries once Vince is done with them, it's about the working conditions they have to work under. They can't put there bodies through the **** they do without painkillers.

You are by far the biggest hippocrate on this board. McMahon is everything you hate in every other high level republican business owner but his real life action figures entertain you so it is perfectly acceptable. You even buy the BS he sells.

MacGuffin n,^^^This^^^

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Natural causes, eh?

Old age isn't a natural cause?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Intriguing how these events always seem to line up in a right or left manor without anyone even getting a memo.

The servants threw away the memos.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

My god Baron if Vince McMahon were the CEO of any other company you would hate the man. He treats his employees like ****. It's not just about dead wrestlers its about wrestlers who have to pay for there own surgeries once Vince is done with them, it's about the working conditions they have to work under. They can't put there bodies through the **** they do without painkillers.

You are by far the biggest hippocrate on this board. McMahon is everything you hate in every other high level republican business owner but his real life action figures entertain you so it is perfectly acceptable. You even buy the BS he sells.

Says the guy whose favorite sport encourages players to purposely break the rules by physically beating up their opponents with their fists.

 

[JC]

My god Baron if Vince McMahon were the CEO of any other company you would hate the man. He treats his employees like ****. It's not just about dead wrestlers its about wrestlers who have to pay for there own surgeries once Vince is done with them, it's about the working conditions they have to work under. They can't put there bodies through the **** they do without painkillers.

You are by far the biggest hippocrate on this board. McMahon is everything you hate in every other high level republican business owner but his real life action figures entertain you so it is perfectly acceptable. You even buy the BS he sells.

Says the guy whose favorite sport encourages players to purposely break the rules by physically beating up their opponents with their fists.

Which has what to do with what I said? You have no idea what you are talking about, like usual. Would you like to compare how the NHL treats players to how the WWE treats their employees? Lets start with pensions, medical, guaranteed salaries, first class travel and accommodations, guaranteed 50% of NHL revenue.

How much more is McMahon making than his average wrestler? In your world he should be sharing that money with his employees. You are defending a scumbag.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Intriguing how these events always seem to line up in a right or left manor without anyone even getting a memo.

Not sure about you, but I always receive the memo. Lockstep, ho!

 

[Baron Scicluna]

My god Baron if Vince McMahon were the CEO of any other company you would hate the man. He treats his employees like ****. It's not just about dead wrestlers its about wrestlers who have to pay for there own surgeries once Vince is done with them, it's about the working conditions they have to work under. They can't put there bodies through the **** they do without painkillers.

You are by far the biggest hippocrate on this board. McMahon is everything you hate in every other high level republican business owner but his real life action figures entertain you so it is perfectly acceptable. You even buy the BS he sells.

Says the guy whose favorite sport encourages players to purposely break the rules by physically beating up their opponents with their fists.

Which has what to do with what I said? You have no idea what you are talking about, like usual. Would you like to compare how the NHL treats players to how the WWE treats their employees? Lets start with pensions, medical, guaranteed salaries, first class travel and accommodations, guaranteed 50% of NHL revenue.

How much more is McMahon making than his average wrestler? In your world he should be sharing that money with his employees. You are defending a scumbag.

How did the NHL players get all those nice benefits? I'll give you a hint: It's five letters and starts with the letter U.

But you seem quite fine with players punching each other senseless for your own entertainment just as long as they get to fly first-class. Duly noted.

 

[TigerVols]

How they doing with the police manhunt for the owners of the fertilizer plant that was blown to smithereens after decades of code violations?

 

[JC]

So WTF was the point of bringing up hockey?

Bottom line is you're a hippocrate for defending McMahon and supporting wrestling. You are so smug when it comes to attacking other big business but turn a blind eye to one of the worst offenders. What a principled man you are.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

So WTF was the point of bringing up hockey?

Bottom line is you're a hippocrate for defending McMahon and supporting wrestling. You are so smug when it comes to attacking other big business but turn a blind eye to one of the worst offenders. What a principled man you are.

I'm entertained by an industry that doesn't treat its performers very well behind the scenes. You're entertained by an industry that has profited off of athletes breaking the rules right in front of everyone by punching each other senseless. Who's the HYPOCRITE?