Anonymous #1 1w

All it does is make people feel like they’re doing something when it does absolutely nothing. Then all the liberals can go to brunch after and feel good about themselves and not do anything actually substantive

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Anonymous #2 1w

I’d argue it’s a perfect way to prevent meaningful organization in the working class, especially as it’s funded by literal capitalists who would rather resort to fascism than have us workers engage in general strikes

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Anonymous #2 1w

I mean if they weren’t protesting what would they be doing instead? If they all plan to vote and organize for candidates because they are motivated that’s a net good.

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Anonymous #4 1w

General strikes are a total non issue in modern America. We have neither the political infrastructure nor class consciousness for it. Total left wing larp

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Anonymous #1 1w

Going to brunch as usual. And anyone going to the protests is gonna vote anyway. Oh and organizing for candidates is good to you but organizing outside of electoral politics is larping, got it. I think I got a text to sign a petition, such great organizing coming out of no kings.

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Anonymous #2 1w

No a general strike is larping surely you u understand there are more paths to organizing then just fantasizing about an imaginary general strike. When you could be organizing ballot referendums. Educating and signing up voters and making impact in local communities

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Anonymous #1 1w

The people who would go to a no kings protest are the closest political allies you have in America. The inability to understand that is deadly to any political movement

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Anonymous #1 1w

which is why we have to build the class consciousness, which you’ve entirely given up on and are now focusing any and all attempts at organization around campaigning for the Democratic Party, who time and time again are proving to be an inefficient (or arguably complicit) opposition party to the rise of fascism you are not fighting back, you’re merely campaigning for complicity.

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Anonymous #1 1w

(not to mention how people have been organizing grassroots community resource networks across the country, without the help of (and often denounced by) the Democratic Party. There will be a general strike in this nation, and you better be preparing for it whether you participate or not.

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Anonymous #2 1w

the point of protests is rarely to impact direct change. the point is to gather the collective energy of people who want change. even the civil rights protests didn't directly cause change - they created enough momentum that change became possible. your all-or-nothing framework fails to realize that getting masses of people to get up and agree about something IS doing something VERY substantive. all day yesterday i heard about follow-up plans for the protest from customers (not brunch)

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Anonymous #4 1w

Class consciousness requires a baseline that we don’t currently have. We have a developed class system that has created tiers of workers who feel no connection to each other. As we stand presently the path to change in this country is not going to be build on general strikes

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Anonymous #2 1w

i noted that one of my customers was looking very dapper and he told me he was going to city counsel with protesters for a meeting with city officials. he had a list of demands

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Anonymous #4 1w

How do you organize a general strike ? How do you ensure it has any effect in our current economy? How do you actually make the strike long enough to last. We have a global and interconnected economy now there is no more. Boycotting the local store in your neighborhood to demand change

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Anonymous #1 1w

Again a general strike is a key indicator of left wing larping. It shows the absence of any nuance or reality in your thinking. The political project we have to undertake won’t be won by immediate gratifying events.

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