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General strike in the US seems like less of an impossibility year by year
Just restating some of the greatest hits:
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Universal healthcare
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Universal education through university level or trade school
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At least a month pto annually
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Parental leave for births
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Guaranteed sick leave
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32hr new full time threshold before overtime
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Only public, equal funds for elections, no PACs/dark money/donations, no lobbyist bribes
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Any elected official over a certain level cannot engage in trading of individual stocks or own businesses, dump it all in an index fund or hand off management to someone else they cannot contact without a mediator and recording, immediate expulsion & no longer able to hold office when found in violation
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No billionaires/oligarchs, anyone with earnings and assets over a billion should be taxed at 100% and assets redistributed
Edit: May 1st 2028 looks like a good target thanks to the UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/
General strike in the US sounds more like a civil war
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jail is not fun. no computer.
Depends on the country
Which country has both abusive crony-capitalist billionaire CEOs and fun jail?
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Hey maybe someone will spend life in prison for disposing a president ele... better not finish typing that one out
Two people have tried, so far.
Why not both? I have a strong suspicion the climate wars are going also be a class wars. Although, if the common folk won't, getting jailed for war crimes against the rich may never be prosecuted 🤷♂️
Aren't all wars?
For me American prison sounds a lot worse than whatever comes from climate change, so personally I'd pick that.
For now. Give it a few decades when the effects of climate change start forcing people out of their homes, cause widespread crop failure, kill thousands with heatwaves and storms, etc.
If you're choice is between
- losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets
Or
- losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets after holding those responsible to account a la the adjuster
More and more people will choose option 2.
I mean even thinking that that'd be the actual situation for me where I live in few decades vs. spending those few decades and rest of my life in American prison, it's going to be a very easy decision for me
I mean, come on. Uncertain future some decades ago vs the certainty that I'm rotting in an American prison for the rest of my life starting now. Easiest decision of my life
It very well could be the rest of your life in both cases.
Yes and that still gives me some decades before something might happen vs spending those decades and the rest of my life in American prison. I mean have you really considered the options here lol
I think you've misunderstood. I'm talking about the choice that people make when these effects start happening, not a choice now. Of course most people aren't opting to get violent yet, there backs aren't yet against the wall.
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Who would win?
2700 soft nerds with at least one billion small pieces of paper each
VS
300 million chimps with access to the internet and Mountain Dew™
What I didn't see coming was mountain dew becoming the drink of the ppl
You gotta Do the Dew before you do the deed.
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Who's to say you can't get conscripted out of prison to die in the climate wars?
Surrender and/or nade the commissar tent?
Russia already is doing this!
They're so ahead of the times!
When you take away people's reason to live, their time, their hobbies, their ability to raise a family, their loved ones, you make those people very desperate...
...you might not be glad that you did.
glares in Nick Fury
"The most dangerous man is the man with nothing to lose"
very apt quote.
3 squares a day and lots of admiration vs unlimited access to distraction-ary cat pics
I did electrical work at a state prison in Nebraska a couple times. Most of the inmates had tablets with semi restricted internet access. So they still get the cat pics
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There's only so many CEOs and billionaires
They're outnumbered :)
And they're stuck in here with us
No, don't throw the younger generations under the bus to clean up our messes.
If nothing else we are ride or die with them.
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This is the way