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Please elaborate "direct action". What does that mean?
Costing relevant people money, basically. Strikes, sabotage, obstructions, that sort of thing
You all can't be serious right now. Are you saying the same lame fucking actions that all businesses are already aware of and have multiple folders for every single one just waiting to be countered is the way we do things?
I wouldn't doubt there's insurance for direct action.
I have never understood why people think stuff like this works in modern times. They're organized and funded. They have PhD mentats producing action plans and optimizations for how to handle any direct action you can throw at them. To the degree that I bet some of them fund projects that market direct action to their detectors since they already paid for the counter plans.
Anything that has been done in the past 50 years should be considered dead in the water. Need to adapt and find new ways to cost them.
Hell shit posting is honestly one of the most effective. They pay millions to get their message out there. They're limited by funding and how ever many bot farms they can purchase. But we have numbers and free time. If organized and done right you could exponentially explode their costs just by shit posting and making them pay more to get eyes on their stuff.
It seems very silly to claim that strikes don't work, they regularly get shit done. But I did not actually advocate for anything in particular in my comment, I just answered the question above
A strike?
Most of you post platitudes when 20 workers in Scranton Pickett for weeks without pay only to gain $5 in wages in exchange for 2 weeks of vacation. Imagine actually organizing and boycotting that company collectively and giving them attention instead of just passively observing which is my point.
Ahh yeah I hate when I go on strike and successfully get better pay and more holidays. Why even bother? I should just shit post online instead.