Consumption strike. Just stop buying nonessentials. Rent strike, mortgage strike. Protests are worthless if you’re still buying crap from amazon and eating at chain restaurants.
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Jaysyn@kbin.social 8 months ago
The answer is a general strike, but I'm have no fucking idea how we'd pull that off in the USA without the majority becoming homeless.
eatthecake@lemmy.world 8 months ago
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I guess I’ve been on an involuntary consumption strike for the last 10 years or so then lol
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 months ago
Historically it has been sustained, smaller, local action that has produced results far more frequently than attempted general strikes. Everybody wants to do this the quick way and they aren’t willing to roll up their sleeves and put in the time to do it locally. They think that everybody’s just going to nod and stop working and it’s all going to be glorious, but that’s just not how it goes down.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You strike and just keep striking, they cant take you.out of your home if you have a gun…
kakes@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I think what you’ll actually find is that they definitely can.
agent_flounder@lemmy.one 8 months ago
They can take you out– that’s for sure.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
In a body bag
seathru@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah, I’ve heard if you have a gun in your house the police will just give up and move on the the next.
Ioughttamow@kbin.social 8 months ago
Happened at uvalde
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Like the Roman plebs used to do. Just every pleb go on vacation to the country at the same time, leaving the rich to fend for themselves.
tdawg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mutual aid is probably the best we could do in the short term
Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Facts. A general strike would work if the police didn’t exist, and if there was much less division in the country
SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Cops can’t stop general strikes
Crackdowns only turn supporterts to active rebels, and sympathizers to supporters.
State Violence only strengthens the movement.
Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
My thinking was “if cops are used for evictions, couldn’t they just knock on your door and drive you to work forcibly?”
Godric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And once your there, will they grab your hands and use them to make sandwiches or type code or whatever you do for a living? It’s much easier to deny living space than compel action.
SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
“Driving you to work forcibly” sounds like violence to me.
nymwit@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Are they going to stand there with a gun pointed at me making me work? Will they bring you home at the end of the day? Hell, I’m thinking I could cut my commute costs and probably get more done!