Some cancers are terminal/inoperable...
wonderingwanderer
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How do you strike if you're already unemployed? So many people are already losing their jobs to automation and AI.
Also, one of the most insidious aspects of american healthcare is that by tying it to employment, people become utterly dependent on their employers. They lose a lot of leverage.
How do you risk your livelihood when you have cancer or diabetes and your corporate benefits are the only way you can afford healthcare?
Not to mention, most of the american workforce is not unionized. How do you organize a strike without workers unions?
Plus, there is a precedent in recent history where congress can pass legislation making it illegal for workers to continue a strike. How that doesn't qualify as forced labor, is beyond me.
So you see, there are many roadblocks to having an effective strike in the US, especially when the american system has been designed over the decades and centuries specifically to advance and protect the interests of the wealthy elite.
It's not about making excuses, it's about acknowledging the practical realities that get in the way of progress.
This is the way.
Crashing the USD would be its demise as the global reserve currency, which would evaporate all that speculative value overnight.
Sure, the oligarchs would still have their mansions, bunkers, and bullet-proof SUVs, but their primary source of leverage and influence would be gone. They would become irrelevant.
No, definitely impose sanctions and stop trade, but don't ban travel. Let the brain drain do its thing.
Some of us do not consent to the actions of this rogue administration, and we don't crave isolation. Some of us desperately want a way out of this country.
Don't deport americans. Some of us want to escape.
Don't worry, you're protected by France's nuclear umbrella
That's what I mean, Chevron are the vultures in this case. They didn't chop the head off, but they're here for the blood...
Dictators around the world are getting too comfortable. They're seeing too many examples of other dictators getting away with war crimes, illegal invasions, and other atrocities.
Putin emboldened Netanyahu, Netanyahu emboldened trump, and I don't even want to think about who's going to feel emboldened by trump.
Rules based order, multilateralism, and international law seem to be crumbling with no enforcement. Arguably the greatest achievements of the twentieth century, disappearing like vapor...
What other options do you propose?
I'm aware the midterms aren't failsafe, but they're the closest thing to hope that we have.
And if people make the same mistake as last time by boycotting the vote, then their defeatism will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.