I’m literally quoting you. If you meant something by “you can’t go back to work on Monday” other than “you can’t go back to work on Monday,” I should very much like to know what it is. I can’t read your mind, after all.
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She’s asking a legitimate question you seem to be intent on dodging: if most people just choose not to show up to work, they risk losing their job, so presumably you’re saying do that or outright quit. And if that’s not what you mean, please clarify what you DO mean
So you’re interpreting don’t “can’t go to work on Monday” as “quit your job and do nothing but protest” I’m just making sure how you’re reading the words I actually wrote versus what you’re saying. do you understand that you’re arguing nonsense and a nonpoint?
I’m saying that if you want to actually beat fascism, you have to have systems and the infrastructure set up where people can protest in mass every day whether that’s mutual aid to distribute food whether that’s the systems to make sure people can cover work shifts it doesn’t mean quitting your job
Yeah, every single person at my job works the same schedule. It's impossible for any of us to cover anyone else, and I imagine that's true of a lot of workers.
gave me flashbacks to my late teens when I was sick and needed to call off work, and my mom (who didn't work at the place I worked) asked me if my boss would let her cover for me. I was so confused cuz that's not how jobs work
Furthermore employers have not been replacing leaving workers for, like, ever so it’s extremely likely there is nobody else who even knows what you do, much less is capable of doing it.
There are many different things that will have to happen if we actually want to beat fascism that it is imperative we understand those avenues from mutual aid to others and that is why I have been so vocal, even though it’s causing much of the most irritating people on this website to have a stroke
OK. That seems like a very different message to me than "You actually are going to have to give things up and disrupt your life to stop fascism that’s kind of the point," but I understand better where you're coming from now.
Although if we're talking about "covering shifts," pretty clearly *somebody's* going to have to show up to work on Monday, so I think the original messaging is maybe still a little blurry.
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So, it depends on fundamentally changing the hiring and culture of all employers? How do you envision this working?