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All Ready, already??? (lemmy.today)
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#GeneralStrike2026

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And it's sentiment like this that makes it clear that the people clambering for people to "just do a general strike" or "just take up arms" have given no thoughts to how to do that without wasting the resources or lives of the people they demand take action. If you take part in union organizing, you learn that you have to make all of your attempts count, otherwise you're blowing your chances and making it harder in the future by alerting the bosses. Yes, you have to impact their money, but just like "vote with your wallet" is an empty phrase if there's no mass movement around a specific product/company, to actually deal with the structural issues that billionaires and the companies they represent present, individuals have to band together to create structures that can contend with them. Otherwise, it's just proposing individual actions to address structural problems, and that plays enough into the hands of these tyrants that they'll say that's the "right" way to deal with the problems they cause.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's not that I haven't thought of that, and of course I understand that people still need food on the table

    I also understand that it's Americans that got us here in the first place. Had this been made Germany 1930-ish, I would have told Germans the same because well, we all know where this ends if nobody is willing to do something

    And mind you, we don't have extermination camps yet, but so far this US government had been more than willing to copy from their predecessors, I would not rule out anything at this point

    Point is: had Americans bothered to show up voting, we wouldn't be here. Yeah, I know, voting has already been made hard because Republicans only win if fewer people show up because they're basically a minority, but they are vocal and dedicated. They vote. That's why they won. Had Democrats or just plainly more Americans back then bothered to vote, we wouldn't be here.

    Americans caused this, can they PLEASE not rely on the rest of the world to fix their problem, this time?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Point is: had Americans bothered to show up voting, we wouldn't be here. Yeah, I know, voting has already been made hard because Republicans only win if fewer people show up because they're basically a minority, but they are vocal and dedicated. They vote. That's why they won. Had Democrats or just plainly more Americans back then bothered to vote, we wouldn't be here.

    You may want to recalibrate how you think about the 2024 election. Yes, it had a lower turnout than the 2020 election, but that was a high point of the past half-century in terms of voter eligible population turnout. And as much as an impact that Uncommitted voters has on the Democratic primary, if we presume they all failed to vote in the General, they still would not have been enough to overcome the margin of victory. And given the way that the Electoral College is set up, unless we have geographic data on where those people who didn't vote are, they may have simply contributed to the overvote that leads to elected presidents who did not win the popular vote (and demoralized voters).

    Understanding that there is a concerted propaganda effort financed by billionaires to prop up conservatives across all borders (if you're not in America, you should be paying attention to the rise of Trump-style politics in your country, too) is vital to addressing the situation. It's not just people are disengaged, people are being advertised constantly that these billionaires have the common person's best interests in mind, or, worse, that this cruelty is good and just.

    And as much as I'm working to organize in my community and put a stop to this, the rest of the world really ought to be sitting up and taking notice of Venezuela (or the litany of transgressions already committed) and making their own plans on how to address this (and hopefully not deciding to support the tyrannical stooges in their own countries). For whatever reason, the organizations that claim they stood against the forces we're seeing are not seen to be stepping up now that the moment is here, and this sort of tyranny has no respect for the structures and limits that were supposed to prevent this.

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