Man it's going to be great when all 50 of us get fired from our jobs.
Wake me up when normies are on board. I'm not fucking up my life for nothing.
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I feel. This is a great way to destabilize individuals and weaken them.
How would you organize?
Poorly because I have a family to take care of, and bills to pay.
I think someone set one of these up for Feb 28 already, might be better to join up rather than have a bunch of them?
Why not do both?
Can we stop making random calls like this on social media? We need actual organization and leadership to be directing this stuff.
99% of people will never even know this is a thing. It's going to have more negative impact on low wage earners who show up than anything else.
Maybe you should join the organization and let them know.
Every journey begins with the first step, put your shoes on.
So my family already lives in poverty. My wife can't work but we get no replacement for the loss over her paycheck even though she is in fact disabled. We have one wage and it isn't all that and I'm working 40 and actually committing like 70 due to a long commute. We are making barely enough to eat, pay bills, pay rent. If I stop going to work for 30 days I'm going to be in danger of eviction process starting. In 90 I will be in danger of being actually out in the street. My health is poorish. Her's is much worse. If we had to go live with the hobos her health and our marriage would absolutely go to shit sleeping on cardboard. Our life would probably never recover. It would make more sense for me to just commit suicide one of the normal ways.
I don't say this because I think my life is so much harder than a lot of folks. Half the country is 90 days from tragedy. How can you actually expect people to actually do this? If your answer is a stupid quip like "put your shoes on" then you can expect you and the few hundred other folks who actually go through with this to just be fired out of hand whilst all the rest of us keep going to work so we don't starve or have to sleep on cardboard.
So, no one can protest for better living conditions, because you can’t? Sorry about your situation, but that is exactly why we are organizing. If you are not able to participate, that’s fine. You may be resigned to defeatism, but please don’t discourage others from wanting to improve the conditions in which we all live. If you have a better plan to resist, I’m sure others would like to hear it.
Take charge then.
Then contact your Democratic representatives and get the ball rolling.
This kind of organization doesn’t really work, you cant just set a day without a strong organized backing
My first impulse on reading this stuff is "Who are you guys? I've never even heard of you before?"
Like, I definitely get the Think Big impulse but... this is reprint of a rallying cry from a lightly distributed Canadian Newspaper. Is this even directed at Americans? Idfk.
I might at least take this more seriously if I'd heard about it through my local DSA chapter rather than as a random graphic on the back corner of a small social media forum.
Then contact them and help them organize.
You can always contact the organizers and constructively offer help, I’m sure they would welcome it.
I wish you best of luck to fight against your authoritarian and early-fascist regime.
Nevertheless it's also possible to let the US burn down and join the united states of Europe. We need more (left) minded people as well before it's too late like in the US.
Banning Science and specific topics in education...that's how it began here in Germany
Really appreciate that. Thanks.
Ya know eveytime I see these I wonder, "how did the Arabs do it?" They actually did something in Egypt. We can't even agree to take the same day off.
materialist differences
Significant organizational differences, as well. Egypt has a much more nationalized economy. Also, a lot of these movements are managed at the grassroots level through networks of mosques.
Americans - particularly the terminally online liberals - hate religious organizations. They're mostly corporate hacks or gig workers. And they think half the people in their social media channel are either cops or tankies or cops posing as tankies.
How do you organize on those grounds?
Good luck, he would probably win another election today. Cant save a democracy where the electorate is stupid.
How do you think fascism arose in Germany? Was it a complex process set forth by the treaty of Versailles, embarrassment after WWI, rapid technological advancement by Germany, instability from the great depression, instability in the Weimar republic, etc...
Or do you really think fascism just comes out of the aether when somehow millions of voters become "stupid" all of a sudden?
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