Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• hector@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To be effective a general strike needs to be open ended, indefinite, until demands are met. We are not there yet, organizing some smaller ones is a good practice run perhaps, but just preparing for the real one.

  In 500 bc, then 350 bc or so, the plebians of Rome had general strikes, decamping to a hill and refusing work until demands were met. One was a written set of laws as the rich were just making shit up as they went. Another was getting tribunes, every tribe got one and they could veto the senate, offer sanctuary, were sacrosanct, elected to one year terms. The second general strike expanded the tribunate.

  The Peoples’ tribunes are the only reason their republic lasted for 500 years. Until the imperial boomerang came back on them as well, the tactics they used warring with other peoples were brought home by their own politicians.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some people are going to stock up the day before, completely defeating the purpose

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• PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Consider it practice.

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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I roll my eyes that these all are on Fridays 🙄

  Come on America, you don’t really get how this works. You can’t use your PTO to challenge authority. It’s the same as protesting a company by buying their product to destroy like MAGA does.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Turns out it’s hard to orchestrate hundreds of millions of people spread out over 9 millions square kilometers isn’t exactly easy to do

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Turns out it’s hard to orchestrate hundreds of millions of people spread out over 9 millions square kilometers isn’t exactly easy to do, who are blissfully unware of anything happening around them and are comfortable sitting at home consuming media and games and don’t want to risk their jobs because they don’t have the security of community, because everyone has embraced being rugged loners as personality traits and not obstacles to better lives.

      FTFY

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes that is part of the difficulty of organizing them—that and theres many millions of those people and they are spread out. How do you reach them over such vast distances and impact them?

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• Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just saw a thing yesterday about what china calls the “death line” (i think that’s what it’s called) it’s basically how most people are paycheck to paycheck and one expense can topple people into poverty and homeless. I’m thinking the tariffs goal was to move that line so less people can take action.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Then make it a week. It starts with someone. It could start with you.

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t ask for a Superman. They don’t exist.
    We do things as a community and a collective, its the only way it works.

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  • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s a Pretti Good idea/start. But, there needs to be more, like a definded list of demands. Otherwise, it’s just an ignorable protest.

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    • Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Organizations like the PSL do have lists of demands and are actively building a movement around this to gain momentum. You should check them out :)

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  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It can start with any one of us. I’ve started, but seems easy for me, if everyone puts in a little effort, and some of us put in a lot, we can make an impact.

    It’s this, or bloodshed.

    Either way, out comforts are lost. I’d rather suffer on my terms, than theirs.

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  • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not a strike, that’s just called being unemployed.

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