The people in cities and in blue states made this economic turn around happen. Trump does not deserve the credit he will claim. Burn it down.
Edit: If you leave this thread learning anything please let it be this one thing. Organic political movement isn't schemed up in a board room or carefully planned and executed every step of the way. It starts inside of you and people like you and you lend your support not knowing the outcome but believing in the cause. If it's not here, it's not here. I don't mean to supply you with fuel needed but only the spark to ignite flame waiting to be ignited.
I'm out though.
My plan is to stop participating in the economy as much as I can. Only the basic necessities now. The fun times are over. Let’s help crash the Trump economy.
a lot of us have been 'existing' on 'only the basic necessities' for years
That’s true. I guess I sounded privileged there.
Maybe to some, but that doesn't minimize your stake in anything. We're all in this together.
And to strike
I would join one if it happens. I feel like one of the best ways to strike is just to stop buying shit. The economy thrives on American excess and consumption.
A consumption strike is still a strike, and honestly could be more effective than a traditional strike.
The US economy is essentially completely reliant on consumption at this point, it's the place where we have the most leverage.
It's also very easy for an authoritarian regime that is inbound by law to retaliate against traditional strikers. It's much harder to force us to consume.
It also doesn't have to be zero consumption, by loca, but used, use cash, barter, and trade.
We need to heavily reduce consumption anyway. Remember the three Rs? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The first two quickly got dropped, recycling took off for a while as it was the more profitable and easiest to shift blame onto the consumer while maintaining consumption. Then we all learned very little could be or was being recycled, it was just being dumped elsewhere. Excess buying is one thing totally under our control. Maybe a better society can also come out of it.
This is probably the only way a general strike in the U.S. would ever work. Employers are draconian, and nobody wants to be the first to risk their neck at their workplace for a normal strike.
The problem is organization, and keeping everybody to it for more than just a few days.
You explained that very well.
So you think people are going to pass on the last Christmas of We The People of the United States of America? You’re not wrong in your method but it’s like trying to get your workplace to unionize when they’re running on inertia, fear, and conflict avoidance.
Most people you know are conflict avoidant, sadly.
Oh I know it. Americans as a whole are selfish, spoiled and cowardly. Guess they have to learn the hard way.
Christmas is a losing battle for a consumer side strike. We gotta pick our battles, and that ain't one of them. Pretty much any other time of the year would be fine, because for the most part people would only be personally sacrificing consuming things for themselves.
And it thrives on our LABOR
Everyone should save as much money as they can and probably not play the stock market. I have a feeling 401k's are going to take a gigantic shit.
I have no idea what's going to happen. I hope none of this happens. it's just a very pessimistic gut feeling.
That's a completely asinine take. Just live your life and try to stay out the Trump administrations path.
It does not matter a single person might think. It only matters they strike on Jan 6th and together we show them what we all think about oppression and authoritarianism. That no amount of money can buy my freedom. That no exchange of goods is worth exchanging the people I love and am suppose to protect.
Do what you want. I won't be there. The people voted for this overwhelmingly. I will only be protesting actual shit policies they implement, not gonna protest an essentially ceremonial vote count.
You mean half?
It was more than half.
No it wasn't he had 73 million vote for him out of the 187 million registered.
And yet he got 50.6% of the popular vote and 301 electoral votes.
It's okay to say you're wrong.
They're not wrong, out of everybody that voted, he got more than 50% of the vote. Does it help you feel smug being pedantic about it?
You said "the people over wheelmingly voted" no they didn't and no it wasn't more than half. America has 187 million registered voters, do the math.
Fuck that. I want to help crash Trump’s economy. Sabotage them in every way possible.