• humanamerican@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    Bring the economy to a halt via general strike and street marches that disrupt traffic. Nothing short of that will get anyone’s attention.

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      there is one that worked effective , the railroad strikes, i believe that is enough to paralyze the gop/D congress to make the freakout. but they are currently satiated now, so unlike to want to strike now.

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      17 hours ago

      The US, it bears repeating captured by our capital markets, keeps most Americans on a paycheck to paycheck knives edge for that very reason. The ones most inclined to strike are the ones that have the most to lose by striking.

      You’re asking tens of millions of people to lose the roof over their heads for a very uncertain outcome.

      The sad reality is that the capitalist bastards have their bases covered. Not surprising considering their effectively limiltess capital and the generational grudge the wealth class has over the formation of unions here to begin with.

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          I mean, in my perfect world the people would unite and burn the capital markets that have brought us to this place to cinder, and have a people’s tribunal bring justice to the former largest stakeholders.

          That could begin to right this ship, and really nothing short of that.

          But I know they’d use their media to get us burning down each other’s homes looong before we get to Wall Street, so I know we’re irrevocably cooked. What do you propose that could conceivably circumvent all the soft and hard protections they’ve put in place?