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When A Con Man and His Party Control the White House
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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This vinyl is really hard to find.
EDIT: I'm sorry. I seem to have accidentally and totally not on purpose posted this image of a rare vinyl in the wrong community.
Just don't let it happen again, over and over.
Violent revolution is the answer, but it won't happen.
Neither will a general strike.
Neither will midterm elections.
I am not blaming anyone, we're all living in survival mode in some way, shape, or form - by design - and things will happen as expected...by design.
A general strike is the only thing that would actually work though
Actually, no.
See, the ultra-wealthy are really rich. More so than they've ever been in history.
And a lot of economists, including Nobel laureates, are saying the only way to fix this situation is to redistribute all the wealth at the top.
Anything else may kick the can down the line for a couple of years.
And what is happening in the US is going to happen to all the industrialized nations. (It's already happened to all the undeveloped nations.)
How bout this? Let's do a general strike and test it out.
I welcome the attempt. A general strike takes a fuckton of organization, and we struggle to even get small workforces unionized. We will be working against efforts by strike busters and the massive far-right propaganda machine to disrupt our efforts and to divide us.
And then, we'd need someone to chart out the comprehensive demands, and then figure out a way to enforce them when the ownership class decides nah and retaliates with paramilitary force instead.
It's going to be very difficult, and there are going to be a lot of setbacks.
For the moment, the way I see it, Americans are glad to be miserable and have ICE killing Americans for a little bit longer so long as they get to verify their masculinity, own the libs, put immigrants in torture prisons and deny to trans folk gender affirming healthcare.
But I would be delighted if the people of the US, who totally betrayed me (and themselves) in 2024, are now willing to fight back by the tens of millions.
Why does the majority not simply seize wealth from the minority and redistribute it? Why can't society just collectively decide money from billionaires had no value? It's so frustrating seeing the majority allow a minority of rich people ruin everything when money is a social construct, meaningless if we all collectively decide it is
That would take collectively seizing power from the governments and the banks.
It would take an immense amount of organization. Tens of millions of people coordinated across thousands of task forces.
Strike busters are effective at disrupting the organization of hundreds of workers on a few task forces. Strike busting is so effective, it's regulated in the US. The owner class hires strike busters anyway and aren't investigated.
It's not impossible, but it would take a sociological miracle. More so given the coordinated efforts by the far-right propaganda machine to sow division among the population.
We're going to have to suffer and die a whole lot before we bust out the guillotines. But maybe someone will get creative and innovate a new technique.