• Damage@feddit.it
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    24
    ·
    11 hours ago

    We’ve all heard these excuses before. Why do you want to force me to repeat the usual answers?

    What few rights you have were paid in blood, and you refuse even slight discomfort, you simply don’t care enough, stop making excuses.

    I don’t see how the size of the country matters, when labor movements have always been GLOBAL. What does Europe have to do with this?

    • plateee@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      25
      ·
      10 hours ago

      I mentioned Europe because places like France have their protest game on point. (grills mounted on tram tracks for making burgers while protesting? Genius.)

      And yes, our labor rights (not much anymore as they are) were paid in blood. I remember learning about the Triangle Waistcoat Factory as a kiddo.

      But I take issue with saying “slight discomfort” when referring to keeping my family housed and fed. Most Americans are living not just paycheck to paycheck but have zero significant savings to weather a medical emergency (or an open ended strike).

      And the only alternative party to the current administration isn’t offering options like, “if you all just wait it out for a few months, we can take back the House/Senate/Presidency, pass UBI, help you get your money and financial stability back… Oh and pad SCOTUS so some fucker in a red state doesn’t sue to undo all this relief”.

      You have to understand. This shit is bleak. We are clawing on to the only thing we have because there is nobody coming to save us, and we cannot save ourselves.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah the only action that could possibly have an impact at this point would be to resurrect the militias of old and start a good old county war. Not particularly viable in the current political and economic climate, also I’m not entirely sure where you attack to cause significant damage outside of maybe bridges on the interstate and highway systems, the rails, and maybe the electrical grid around industrial centers and AI data centers.

        Saying that and doing that is also a massively different thing, back when the old militias were about they didn’t really have in investigationn methods and also they could literally go to work with basically no reprisal after shooting up some deputy or whatnot.

        • stringere@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          10 minutes ago

          outside of maybe bridges on the interstate and highway systems, the rails, and maybe the electrical grid around industrial centers and AI data centers

          Not a bad starter pack you got there.