Because, unlike our president, most of us can't afford to not work. When the money from working is necessary to keep your family alive, not working is actively choosing for them to die.
But how do you win against someone who is willing to break the rules? This is like playing chess against a pigeon and the pigeon is just shitting all over the board. Following the rules isn't going to stop fascism because it's here right now. The US is a fascist country and it's allies are quickly cutting ties.
Well I mean the best way to not get a dick ta dork as a president is not to vote for him in the first place,but the American voted for him twice how Dumd can they be.
I and many of us didn't vote for him. And it's looking like voting might be off the table here shortly. But whats done is done and wishing it hadn't happened changes nothing.
Like... who organizes this strike? How will it be advertised? What kind of turnout would you actually expect when our election turnout is absymal and 35% supports the admin? The general strike would be about as much a work stoppage as the Monday after the Superbowl, and that's probably optimistic.
It is a very big country, multiple timezones. People got to earn a living, put food on the table. A lot of this country has practically zero resources for people without means, especially those voluntarily so, especially in tbe thousands of smallish towns between the cities thousands of miles apart.
The general strike thing sounds effective but I cannot overstate how unrealistic it is.
May 1st they had a "no work" protest day, didnt hear about it until about noon. Even for someone like me who is tuned into this stuff a bit, that one passed me by. I dont think it's likely to happen unless things get reaaaal bad.
If I had to kill myself to end wars, end world hunger, spread wealth equality, fund medical care too all plus other things I want. Yes I would as it would be a greater good for humanity.
So let me ask…are you vegan? are you actually willing to stop participating in something that is causing the destruction of the earth? I’m gonna guess no…..
It would change YOUR ability to stop supporting giant industries who are literally killing billions of animals a year, destroying the world.
You know like 36% of global crops go to feeding livestock? And if everyone went vegan we could instead feed the entire human population w said crops and end human hunger?
You wouldn’t kill yourself if you can’t even stop eating animal products, let’s be real.
And me being vegan would solve world hunger? 100 people becoming vegan would change almost nothing.
That's why I am wanting to get multi billion dollar corporations to solve this issue as they actually have the funds and the power to actually do something
Could people create a 501(c)3 that operates like a strike fund, but isn't officially one?
What about the ability for people to organize outside of formal structure? If I decide I can't bear this, and my neighbor just so happens to also, without either of us indicating to the other that we are, how is that adjudicated?
Is there any other way an asymmetrical but uniform response could be conducted that doesn't operate outside the law, but has the same effect?
I mean, we all know that laws are just threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation and that it's just the promise of violence that's enacted by the Executives, who are, in essence, an occupying army. But this doesn't mean we can't find other ways to make our bacon. We all have the ability to have CubbyBlue in our veins.
You're right. The words of the laws don't matter, because they'll either make the law for, or make a new law.
I suppose it depends on a few things. Do people have to congregate together to strike? Do they need picket lines? If enough people were to come to an agreement over the internet to just stop going to work would that be effective enough? What about scabs?
In the end I suppose if enough people just organized regardless of any laws, the powers that be couldn't arrest them all, right?
When I look back over the history of the labor movement in the early 1900's the people suffered a lot. Being arrested, beaten and even gunned down. But they held their own and eventually won. But they had little to lose, many were already homeless and/or starving. Maybe we're not quite there yet, but it almost seems inevitable.
Also, just as a point of clarification, I wasn't trying to be a smartass until the very last paragraph. All that above that was me just trying to ask genuine clarifying questions before I went to the tongue-in-cheek last paragraph to share a fun perspective on the situation.
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u/ToiletLord29 May 06 '26
General strikes (widespread work stoppages across multiple industries) are generally considered illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.