Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Zero shot that a constitutional convention in the near future would be for the better.

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve been saying since Trump was elected again that the only fucking shot we have is a blue wave so massive that we can shove through amendments and just restructure the entire fucking system from the ground up.

    So, we’re doomed

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• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I agree that a general strike could do the trick, but the challenge will be getting almost everyone onboard while still allowing the working class to eat and have shelter. By design, working class Americans have little means of weathering a long term general strike, and the upper class has enough wealth to ignore it unless it’s a prolonged effort. A general strike for a few days will not cut it.

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  • eightpix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, a whole-country general strike in America would only last a day, two tops. They don’t have the wherewithal to be good neighbours and politically aligned against monied interests the way a nation-state that has a deeper, older history can.

    The history of America is money, interest, and interested money.

    Southern plantations, 17th century land ownership, trade in enslaved persons, ranching, gold prospecting… and war.

    War against the Indigenous, the French, the Spanish, the Mexica, the French again, the British, the Bolivarians, themselves, and then everyone else, forever.

    The way to defeat America is to end its war-making capacity. Explosions, attacks, weathering, budget restrictions, out-competition, and mutually-assured destruction have all failed as gambits. What remains is to undercut the human element — wounding warriors without wielding deadly force. A loss in military preparedness, a disbelief in the stated mission, a war-weariness.

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• SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Trump is the entire reason this is working. All of Trump’s minions are too incompetent to be able to hold everything from crashing down once he croaks. They have a time limit. They’re trying to turn the US into a full blown dictatorship before Trump dies.

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