• speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Still waiting for US citizens to organize a nationwide strike that doesn’t end until ICE terror ends. What’s it gonna take?

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      The problem is that most of us that would protest are not in a financial position to do so. If I participate in a work strike, I won’t make the money I need to pay my bills, I’ll be evicted, I’ll go hungry, I won’t be able to feed the family or the pets I will go destitute long before actual change happens. I’m not just making sacrifices, I am making that decision for my whole family. And that’s just the surface level changes. I cannot afford to leave where I am currently. I believe that is all by design and I am not even close to the minority situation.

      • TerdFerguson@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, its not a viable option for everyone. Clandestine methods are an option.

        In France, they light things on fire.

      • speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 hours ago

        I guess US citizens are then in a financial situation similar to what US foreign policy has encouraged in several regions of the world.

        Anyone can downvote all they want, but US interventionism has had terrible consequences that most US citizens are not even aware of, yet people push back, they resist, despite much greater poverty than most people in the US have to suffer.

        I’m confident that US citizens can eventually do something concrete against their most recent criminal regime, of which there have been many. We haven’t even yet seen the level of pushback that was mounted during the war on Vietnam, and armed thugs are out there killing your citizens and kidnapping people off the streets.

        I just hope that pushback comes sooner than later because history shows us that people outside the US tend to suffer much more due to US policy than people inside the US.

        • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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          10 hours ago

          A huge percentage of unions in Minnesota are reporting not being able to pay rent next week.

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        16 hours ago

        So fight off the ones that would kick people out and replace the ones that would turn the lights off.

          • Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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            9 hours ago

            That is the argument everytime they try to tell people not to vote. Which is not only contradictory it’s just delusional.

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            8 hours ago

            Yes, exactly, now you get it.

            It’s either that or waiting for the fascists to murder you. So get to it.

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                6 hours ago

                I’m not American so I can’t help directly.

                Still, while I obviously can’t write here what I’m doing, I’m confident it qualifies as “me going first”. If we were with more people, we could do more than make the news a couple times per year.

                So… you next?