redshiftsinger.bsky.social
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Ex-twit. Singer, keytarist, plant nerd etc.
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people want to feel good about politics. that's understandable, but it can lead you into some really bad logic traps if you're not mindful of "perfect is the enemy of the good"
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This is the actual way. I donât know how to do it but a good part of the work has to be decreasing the electoral viability of fascism, and a lot of that relies on figuring out how to make it repulsive to the population that does not yet find it repulsive.
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Industrious!
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Nah, you can do your own homework, troll.
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37) some of you may recall I posted about the books I got at the queer bookstore while I was in the city for Pride. Well⌠I picked up this one to start reading it and discovered a surprise!
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The lawmakers assassinated in MN are not the first victims of murder enabled by the data broker industry. But many of the previous victims were marginalized & unknown: mostly women who were targeted by abusers or stalkers
The tech industry lobbied fiercely against bills that would have stopped this
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Dan, you seem to have been struggling to follow the conversation, so Iâd like to gently remind you that itâs ok to not chime in when you arenât clear on whatâs being discussed.
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However, there will always be the need to buy necessities, and so all-purpose spending boycotts do not scare food-based corporations. Nor do they scare landlords, who know that housing is not an optional luxury.
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Not spending (on non-necessities) is a different thing than cutting oneself off from oneâs income, and is much less difficult to convince people to do.
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Talking to yourself again?
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Well, I canât stop you from embarrassing yourself if youâre determined.
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Scale matters. And so does whether one industry/union/workplace is striking, or everyone. When only one group strikes, other workers in their society are still getting an income and can help ensure that the striking workers donât starve.
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Yes, occasionally in much smaller countries, a critical mass can all decide to take action at once and be effective like that.
The USA is much larger than Poland & has different socioeconomic forces in play in 2025 than Poland had in 1980, and a general strike is much broader than a shipyard one.
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By *orders of magnitude*. You canât just go on the internet and yell âhey everybody letâs do a general strike!â and expect to get anywhere. Thatâs not how real life works.
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I do know about the history of general strikes, and I know that every successful one in history took place in much smaller countries and still involved either a massive amount of pre-planning, or turnout greater than the much lower-commitment action of âshow up to a protestâ has yet generated here.
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Correct! You may notice that one thing they did not do was a general strike!
Now, if you hadnât already proven yourself a troll, I might take some time to educate you on the other actions currently being undertaken in the US. But you wonât listen so I wonât waste my time.
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Why do you want more people to starve?
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Half Windsor if your tie is a bit short, Full Windsor if your tie is a bit long. The bigger knot eats up some length.
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But youâre a troll whoâs been flip-flopping this whole time, so maybe now youâre gonna say violence is good instead, idk. đ
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Yeah, MLKâs first two matches didnât accomplish much all on their own either.
The only way to change things dramatically very quickly is either to first acquire a position of high power, or to commit a lot of violence. I thought we agreed that violence is an undesirable method to attempt.
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Are you talking to yourself now?
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Then sit back and mind your business instead of trying to dictate how itâs done. You donât get to have control without responsibility.
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There have also been spending boycotts. Theyâre ineffective because, shocker, corporations know that people cannot simply not eat.
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Again, maybe you heard about five million-ish people protesting on Saturday? No? Mmmkay youâre too ignorant to get any airtime with your nonsense then.
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Weâre not going to starve ourselves to meet your bullshit standards for âadequateâ resistance, cope and seethe.
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Those things are true. Maybe you also heard about the protests that have been happening? But Iâm not confident you did, since you apparently didnât hear a word I said about the necessity of food.
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Vance, too, can be removed.
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Itâs all of the above. Heâs a senile fascist who never bothered to really know much of anything.
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âJust do a general strikeâ is running your mouth if you donât have a plan to make it work.
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Plenty of ideas in this thread already if you wanna pull your head out of your ass and do some actual work instead of just posting and being nasty to people who point out that just posting doesnât actually make a general strike viable.
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I want people in general to not run their mouths without thinking through what theyâre proposing and how to make it work.
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So she thought that she was, what, going to show up in court and be apologized to for the bother as soon as everyone saw she was white?
Bizarre.
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Wow, sounds like you should be advocating for effective peaceful actions that can work quickly, not ones that will need years of preparation to actually pull off.