If people aren’t willing to give up 1 hour of their corporate slavery to stop facism, then we are already doomed.
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Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Love a protest in the middle of the workday, should be easy for most people to attend, no?
meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a difference between “willing” and “able” 😅
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.”
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Today you learn lot of people don’t live in their states capital city
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yea, I’m looking at this but thinking “that’s not happening lol” with my state. I’m in AZ and anyone outside Phoenix is probably driving at least 2 hours just to get there.
For me: 6 hours in a car with 5000ft (1500m) drop/climb just for a protest that’s vaguely “against Project 2025”. I could never justify it.
wootfiebre1@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
[deleted]underwire212@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I think people in positions of privilege can recognize their status, and, in my opinion, have a duty to do more (whether it’s donate to orgs fighting this, or donate time if able to be more flexible with their time and work commitments, etc. ).
There will be people who will be able to take greater risk because they are privileged. There are less financially secure individuals who won’t be able to take as much risk. That’s OK! We don’t need to turn this into a dick waving contest of “who is doing more”
What we don’t need is this bickering amongst ourselves. We’re all proletariat. Some proletariat will have more privilege. And getting the less privileged working class to attack the slightly more privileged/wealthy wage slav- I mean “workers”- is EXACTLY what they want!
DO NOT give the bourgeoisie what they want, c’mon now.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Honestly? No. This isn’t something that you go “if it’s convenient”, the entire concept of freedom is at stake here. I’m biased as a woman of color in a non traditional marriage, but this is absolutely mandatory. I will lose a day’s wages, and it may impact my ability to pay my bills. But are you not seeing the future of this administration if people stand by and accept it?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s 576 miles between El Paso and Austin. Please explain how someone is going to be able to get there within an hour with time to protest.
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 day ago
You had it correct at corporate SLAVERY.
Imagine you get fired over this, lose your home, stop being able to feed your family. I don’t think unemployment benefits in the US cover much, do they?
I hope most everyone who’s ABLE to protest, is also willing.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
More like 2 days depending on where in the state you live
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve already seen someone on Lemmy say that they should feed their kids out of dumpsters if they lose their job that they rely on to live paycheck-to-paycheck (like almost half of Americans) and then their home because they can’t pay rent.
And if they lose their kids to CPS because they were made homeless and their parents were arrested during a general strike protest? Hey, they were clearly just MAGA bootlickers anyway.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m dubious of the reality of said comment, or the support it got in upvotes.
Most of us understand that protesting carries risks, and encourage others to risk what they feel okay with.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I clearly have a good reason to lie about that, which is stuff. Either that or things. Or maybe because shut up.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
On topic reply as always.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do explain how me talking about the fact that people (like you) have no compassion or understanding for others when it comes to this event is not on-topic enough for you.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
You are overdramatic. You make mountains out of molehills, and somehow EVERY news story somehow affects you personally. So fragile.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
You realise that anytime is the middle of the work day.
Not everyone is working 9-5. People work shifts, nights, and weekends.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You realize that there are differences in the populations working at different times, right? Or are you just happy to be seen being outraged?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Sure I realise that, but I was more pointing out that whatever time a protest is there will be people like you unhappy with it.
I don’t know what gave you the impression I want to be seen outraged and I do hope you’re not making judgments about me over a single comment as that would be very good.
It would be like me labelling you for the two comments I’ve seen you post. Positive intent my friend.