• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    What Europeans don’t understand is that we have different tools in America. A General Strike will work in Europe, where there are unions, strong worker protections, and worker friendly governments. When Europeans go on a General Strike, their governments listen.

    But in America, if you attempt a General Strike, they’ll just fire you, and it’s totally legal. Go ahead, be the guy who advocates for a General Strike at work. You’ll be the guy looking for a new job, while the rest of the workers get back to work.

    However, in America, we can shut down the entire government, or even just part of it, and as long as our elected leaders hold strong, it actually works to force the government to change.

    Why do a General Strike, which costs us money, possibly our jobs, and hurts US? Does anyone think that MAGA will see Dems going through self-inflicted suffering, and feel bad enough to change? The only thing that they’ll understand is if we inflict pain on THEM, and nothing hurts them more than taking away their money.

    Right now, we have denied ICE their funding, and they have been forced to greatly reduce their activities. The government shutdown is working far more effectively than a single day General Strike world have been.

    General Strikes work in Europe, not America, and government shutdown work in America, but not Europe. We’ll keep using the tools that work for us.

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      2 days ago

      i really hope you guys find a way through this! but i am afraid that the profound changes that have been made inside your administration at all levels will be close to impossible to reverse and same for the international stage. more to it, the next administration if it is a saner one will spend most of its time reverting these changes and more than likely will do so while neglecting the mounting issues that people face. this will lead to more distrust in the system and some other nutjob will come into power… the longer this takes the harder will be to get out. I know because we have this issue, Hungary managed to get out of something similar after 16 years and it is still early days to really say they changed course. Slovakia is there now. And on and on.

      good luck and clear minds!

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        We will definitely have some rebuilding to do, but that can be an advantage, as long as we can control that rebuild to go in the proper direction.

        These are unprecedented times, and they will require unprecedented solutions. I hope our next generation of Reps and Senators are courageous enough to fight for a positive future for Americans, and not just the wealthy.