I’m mad. I’m very mad. I’m also very tired of watching political movements get shut down by the people who respond with “yes, we need to do better” followed by a handful of performative actions, and absolutely no substantive change.
I believe in a general strike. Wholeheartedly. I believe it would make real change. How the hell do I organize one safely? How do I trust any of the other people online who claim to be organizing them?
You don’t? We were talking about a general strike in much larger numbers when r/antiwork fractured and we would hear the same thing, “we need time to prepare, we need to orginize.” Years later, it’s all the same excuses. The time to strike is now. You won’t be ready in 5 years you won’t be ready in 5 months. You’re only ready when your courage surpasses your doubt.
You’re only ready when your courage surpasses your doubt.
This. The real answer is that Americans won’t come together in solidarity to address this situation until almost every non-wealthy citizen in this country has their quality of life decline so much that they have nothing left to lose. We’re going to have to lose all our creature comforts before we take this seriously as a society. And honestly, by then, we’ll have lost so much power that it’ll be too late.
Realistically, the time is right now, and, if we’re being candid, it probably already past.
I’m with you 10p%. We have to be louder about it though, most people just don’t even see it. I don’t have much faith in people to hear the message but we are not the deciding factor. The message needs to go out.
I’m mad. I’m very mad. I’m also very tired of watching political movements get shut down by the people who respond with “yes, we need to do better” followed by a handful of performative actions, and absolutely no substantive change.
I believe in a general strike. Wholeheartedly. I believe it would make real change. How the hell do I organize one safely? How do I trust any of the other people online who claim to be organizing them?
You don’t? We were talking about a general strike in much larger numbers when r/antiwork fractured and we would hear the same thing, “we need time to prepare, we need to orginize.” Years later, it’s all the same excuses. The time to strike is now. You won’t be ready in 5 years you won’t be ready in 5 months. You’re only ready when your courage surpasses your doubt.
This. The real answer is that Americans won’t come together in solidarity to address this situation until almost every non-wealthy citizen in this country has their quality of life decline so much that they have nothing left to lose. We’re going to have to lose all our creature comforts before we take this seriously as a society. And honestly, by then, we’ll have lost so much power that it’ll be too late.
Realistically, the time is right now, and, if we’re being candid, it probably already past.
We are sooooo fucked.
I’m with you 10p%. We have to be louder about it though, most people just don’t even see it. I don’t have much faith in people to hear the message but we are not the deciding factor. The message needs to go out.