Brilliant π I hope everyone turns up. Ppl better have paper work in check!
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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How about a general strike for our entire country's system and the fact that we're bought by Izrabaal.. whatever man.. yeah let's strike
If we stop their influence a whole lot MORE will come of it besides stopping ICE
The no shopping seems weird to me when I mostly go to local breweries or friend owned bars or small independent coffee shops where the owners and workers are leftists (all my usual third places). Supporting local helps my community. If this lasted longer and many people did this, then it would have a financial impact on these places. If they closed, some corpo owned bar/brewery/coffee could come in and just take their spot.
Can someone help me understand if protesting and hurting local is worth it?
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I dont really get this. I actually like my workplace and my manager is an awesome guy. I'm supposed to just not do my work? Idg what that helps.
We need to cause pain to politicians and billionaires. I already dont use popular social media or shop at Amazon or Walmart. I dont have streaming. Im doing more than 98% of Americans already.
What would be FAR better than this are tech literacy classes to ween the idiot public off the techno corps. Get a few thousand people to quit streaming, using Amazon, and shutting all their phones off or at least all using vpns and ad blockers would be a huge revenue hit to corporations.
I guess I can work tomorrow then play video games at home after. I dont see how this helps.
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How does this affect anything?
Missing a day of work on a Friday is part of people'e schedule now whether they have a 4 day work week just take a day off. Same with school. This is minimally disruptive. The shopping one is the most useless imo. You could just do all your shopping Thursday and skip Friday.
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I am in the EU. There's no reason why I should know this. Keep the US in the US-related communities, thanks.
lol, no.
or you could have some common decency and join the strike in solidarity instead of being a whiner
Tell me how I could do it from here (that is not sofa activism like "like and share") and put THAT in a YSK.
if you're not in a Union join one, ask around your national unions what it would take to organize a solidarity strike. international strikes are pretty common around the globe
Strikes are organized against one's own government on topics for which the government has skin in the game.
That's why Italy, Germany and France see protests against the genocide of the Palestinian people: because those countries sell weapons and buy security systems from Israel.
Now tell me what exactly you think any of those governments could do against the decades long fall into fascism and plutocracy that the US is experiencing, while the same billionaires fund our own local nazi parties.
The only thing that we should keep saying is don't touch the sick corpse.
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This won't actually do anything.
In order for a strike to be a strike, it need to be organized and it needs to achieve a specific goal. If there's no demands then it's not a strike, it's a boycott or a walkout.
Currently there is no movement, just a national level reaction. A movement requires leadership, a significant level of coordination and mobilization, very specific set of demands and goals, and an underlying message/philosophy that is backed by the general public. We currently have non of this.
In order to get to the point of a national level general strike, there needs to be a series of much smaller strikes that do all of the above, and have those localized strikes merge with each other to eventually have the size to pull of a national strike.
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