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Comment by vlachen

1 day ago

With so many saying "the economy" is why they voted for this regime, it's going to be excepionally difficult to convince them to make their own economic prospects worse by striking.

The other issue with a general strike here is that the people backing this up have more money than $deity, and I'm sure that they realize that they have more than a single person could resonably spend in a lifetime. I think that would lead to an acceptable tradeoff of smaller "income" for more power.

I'm afraid a general strike would just be ignored.

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wat10000  1 day ago

Most people won't care until it starts to directly affect them. And I don't mean "this will make air travel less safe and you fly sometimes so this directly affects you," I mean direct, immediate consequences. 90 million eligible voters didn't bother to vote last time around. Another 77 million voted for this. That's two thirds of voters who either don't care or are in favor. And it's not like there was any mystery. Nothing that's happening now should be the least bit surprising.

  • vlachen  1 day ago

    Agreed. The scorpion didn't try to hide what it was, and the frog still gave it a ride.

antifa  1 hour ago

> With so many saying "the economy" is why they voted for this regime, it's going to be excepionally difficult to convince them to make their own economic prospects worse by striking.

The price of eggs didn't go down, Trump hasn't done anything pro-economy, and hundreds of thousands of pointless layoffs are happening (DEI firings include conservative wifes, conservatives with disabilities, black conservatives, veterans, who could have known?).

Economic prospects are nose diving regardless, so there's no reason not to strike.