Political Memes

Strikes are organized through unions not hashtags.

Next nationwide 50501 protest is a national walk-out on Jan 20th.

We'll see you there, right?

Some leftists talk about a general strike like its the rapture. You need the ground work done. We've done none of the work broadly to make something like that feasible. Strikers need economic and legal leverage, they'd have basically none if they tried.

You have to walk before you run.

Or goto the capitol and kick them out... Vs wasting time.

In the USA health insurance is tied to work; if you're fired "with cause" (like from general strike) you don't have health insurance or any "unemployment".

They don't make these laws without reason, they know what they're doing. The USA is a plutocracy designed to squash unions, and does a pretty good job of it

https://www.freeameri.ca/

January 20 at 2pm local time

General Strike? My friend, we aren’t even in unions right now! It will take years to build that kind of power.

Let’s focus on building a new mass political party that does not exist in the wilderness, then we can work to that point.

I'm gonna end up committing sui before the general American populace does a gen strike.

No one should be buying from Amazon. Start with one big company, simple yeah? No, because post Christmas season now, the amount of people who still use amazon has not changed at all. For me sure, the general populace? They're fucking morons. Consume consume consume. I'm gonna consume myself from the inside out. These rat removed only care about themselves. American individualism is a cancer.

I'm struggling to exist in this. I cannot tell you how much these assholes don't care.

A general strike requires organization, but US society is completely atomized.

If anyone thinks a strike is actually happening with the state of things then they are incredibly naive and do not understand just how much foundational effort and structuring needs to be in place first for that to even be considered a possibility, much less actualized.

I’m all for it but I feel that a large population of the country is just not gonna care enough to get activated. I would love to be proven wrong, this needs to be massive to the point it makes the no kings protest look like a farmer market.

The bourgeoisie have the ability to ride out a strike for weeks, even months. Can you? How long can you go with no pay? We are nowhere near organized enough.

My big question with a grassroots general strike is who negotiates for us? We'll all have different "good enough" goals that would get us back to work. Seems like we'd need a strong central leader speaking for everyone....

"The most vulnerable should pay for the revolution." People aren't just stupid, liberals have spent the last century implementing anti-popular-labour-action measures. A general strike would require people who cannot afford to survive to risk what little they have, mutual aid networks and consequences for those in positions of power must exist in order for that risk to be minimized.

I work in the care industry, my clients need support 24/7 and there are only so much staff around. Should I leave my clients to their own designs‽

These kinds of things tend not to happen until people are starving and have nothing left to lose.

Oh, we're declaring random general strikes on social media again, are we?

This shit takes a very high level of labor organization, class consciousness, and coordination.

The UAW is already pushing other Unions in the US to align their contract negotiations in 2028, to instigate a kind of general strike. Are you helping organize that? Because you sould be

Well you would need strong unions and a non apathetic population to pull off a general strike.

After the holidays would be a hilariously well timed general strike.