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Shutdown 315 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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What is the Shutdown 315 Movement?

Edit: Because of the number of negative and discouraging comments that are counterproductive to the message of this post, I have decided to remove select comments that discourage organization. I apologize in advance if your comment is removed inadvertently.

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[–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Every movement has to have a beginning. AFAIK, this movement started this week. I am not affiliated with the movement and have no input in its organization. If you have constructive criticism, contact the organizers on discord or blueSky.

One critical comment is acceptable, but repeated negative and discouraging comments from multiple users can kill a movement in its infancy. I didn’t enjoy removing the comments, and hope everyone can understand and no one takes it personally.

As President Musk’s regime unfolds, and resistance groups activate; I couldn’t in good conscience do everything I can to help them succeed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    AFAIK, this movement started this week.

    The first sentence in their Substack post you linked:

    The Shutdown315 Movement started as a small group of individuals on a Signal group chat on the eve of January 18th, 2025

    It kind of seems like you reshared this image uncritically, without actually looking into the movement. To be clear, I absolutely support this kind of mass action, but for the reasons I outlined in my earlier post, I think it's very dangerous for something like this to be fracturing support. I would hope that, if you are also in support of this kind of mass action (even if you are not affiliated with this specific movement), you would be tuned in enough to have run into the larger ones first, and it would have precluded you from sharing this here.

    Regardless, thank you for hearing me out. I appreciate that you've shared GSUS here. It has more than 250x the support at present and as far as I can tell is the frontrunner in the effort. (Their SEO is good enough that they're the second result on Google and the first result on Bing at the time of posting.)

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