No Stupid Questions

I've already seen someone on Lemmy say that they should feed their kids out of dumpsters if they lose their job that they rely on to live paycheck-to-paycheck (like almost half of Americans) and then their home because they can't pay rent.

And if they lose their kids to CPS because they were made homeless and their parents were arrested during a general strike protest? Hey, they were clearly just MAGA bootlickers anyway.

ah yes, voting, famously known for being the only way humans have ever changed their material circumstances.

now that voting has failed us, the only thing left to do is nothing!

Added your GeneralStrikeUS.com link to the header of my post, thanks for this information

Could be used to organise for a general strike though.

Good point! We need to increase safety. Anyone know of any non-profit organizations that lend out AK-47s and .762 rounds to angry protestors within 2 days?? /s

If you go to a protest with a firearm, you're a fucking idiot. The police will have every reason to believe you're a danger to public safety, whether you believe you are or not. Also, you better be trained to use that thing because if not, you're going to be an additional problem if shit hits the fan. And if you get arrested for anything at all, your charges will become exponentially worse because you allegedly committed a crime while carrying a firearm. DON'T TAKE A FIREARM TO A PROTEST.

Edit: I just got emotionally activated, so here we go.

That is Elizabeth Eckford. She was one of the first Black students to go to what was up til then a white school in Arkansas. She was absolutely going as part of a movement for social progress while being the victim of discrimination her whole life. The discrimination is going on in the picture. Without a doubt, she is the person in most danger in that photo. She is in the right. She is present for progress. She is in danger. You know what she doesn't have? A fucking gun. Why? Because if she took a gun, the people with power will have the reason to fuck the whole thing up. If you take a firearm to a protest, the police will have every reason to shut the entire thing down, and the news will run their propaganda machine in collaboration with the current administration to derail the entire message and come up with even stricter control. If Elizabeth Eckford had taken a gun, she would have been arrested and the news would be all about how Black people are violent, need more policing, and segregation needs to continue. If you take a gun, the news will be about how the left is violent. In these matters, objective truth doesn't matter. It's a social game, and those with power have more means to control the narrative. You need to be perfect because all they need is one little piece of plausible reason to fuck the whole thing up. It's not fair. It's fucked up. You are in danger. That's all true. It's also why people like Elizabeth Eckford are remembered. They took the risk that pushed us forward. The people that went in and fucked it up for everyone were forgotten. Do it the right way so we can make progress.

DON'T. TAKE.A.GUN.

People will be in danger either way with the violence prone goons in power. If you are armed, there will be justification to shoot you. Protest at more public and friendly places. That way you will likely have allies nearby. Also, folks need to be situationally aware and plan an escape path if things turn too dangerous.

Most democrats at the federal level are complicit in a lot of what’s going on, including Musk’s DOGE treasury crap (crimes?) despite him not being a government employee or confirmed by the senate. Hell, most congressional democrats JUST in the last year voted for the legislation that enables ICE to indefinitely detain any suspected immigrant suspected of committing any crime. No due process. No actual crime needed.

Screw voting for democrats. Democrats voted to let the government round up the people I love to be deported or tortured. If we still have the power to vote, vote for leftists. Or vote for left-of-average-democrat people like Bernie.

Hi Lenny,
i think i will add your comment here to the header of my post. What do you think ?

P.S. : Main warning in your comment added. Done. Also added a [caution] flare

I think this one is too short noticed for most people

i don't know who organized this and just made this post to have some answers. Thankfully, some users are coming up with answers ... so i have updated the header of this post.

Thanks, i have edited my post with this and the [solved] flare.