Mass national protest. Mass national strikes. Cripple all logistics and commerce by striking. Then they'll listen. Or they try to crush us, and the world will see the American working class and it allies rise up *yet again* and crush fascism. Boots on their fucking throats and do not let up. - ThreadSky

billshea19.bsky.social • 31 days ago

Mass national protest. Mass national strikes. Cripple all logistics and commerce by striking. Then they'll listen. Or they try to crush us, and the world will see the American working class and it allies rise up *yet again* and crush fascism. Boots on their fucking throats and do not let up.

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jmk7682.bsky.social•31 days ago

Literally any federal employees that struck would be fired. That’s what they want.

billshea19.bsky.social•31 days ago

That's why it has to be mass notational strikes like other nations do, effectively. At a certain critical mass, the fascists are forced to retreat because their praetorians abandon them:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-3-5-percent-solution/

jmk7682.bsky.social•31 days ago

Or by the gig and can’t afford to strike for even a day. This idea is destined to fail. What needs to be done is to support the organizations that fight them in the court room.

billshea19.bsky.social•31 days ago

The courts are not going to save us.

jmk7682.bsky.social•31 days ago

Do you even have a job or are you just volunteering other people to go on strike?

jmk7682.bsky.social•31 days ago

Strikes sure as shit ain’t.

jmk7682.bsky.social•31 days ago

A third of eligible adults didn’t even vote. And over half of those that did, voted for him. So you’re looking at max of 33%. Now take out the percentage that don’t work, unemployed, retired, disabled, students, you’re looking at maybe 25%, probably less. And half of them are either paid by the hour

treadingdarkwater.bsky.social•31 days ago

#weareanonymous look up in the sky . The Bat Signal is shining, we need you.

getoutofmyway.bsky.social•31 days ago

I’m reposting the @michaelianblack.bsky.social post everywhere. We have to get the word out. This is our moment.

Giving them time to “see how it all shakes out” will be too late.

People - spread the word.

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelianblack.bsky.social/post/3lh4cvxsjok2e

getoutofmyway.bsky.social•31 days ago

I’m in. Who else?

cadragon.bsky.social•31 days ago

Feb 5 @ 11 am local time

bennelli612.bsky.social•31 days ago

I disagree. I'm thinking we stay out of the streets. If people take to the streets, POTUS will call us rioters and declare martial law. Right? He's ready for us to take to the streets so he can round us up or simply kill us. Thoughts?

johnnyquestlove.bsky.social•31 days ago

There's a lot more of us than there are of them

Death is inevitable. If you want to lick boots, stay home.

bennelli612.bsky.social•31 days ago

Agreed but, we are useless to the fight if we are in jail or dead. We ain't lickin no boots over here, I'm jussayin' that he will declare any protest a riot and shut it down quickfast and in a hurry.

johnnyquestlove.bsky.social•31 days ago

Then we come armed, like they did.

If we go in expecting violence, rather than a peaceful protest, things won't go down the way they want.

It's no longer the time for high roads or "just vote!"

bennelli612.bsky.social•30 days ago

That's definitely an option and I admit I'm torn. Torn between the words of Malcolm, "by any means necessary" and the words of Pema Chodron, "all the angry faces screaming for peace."

amandarachelle.bsky.social•31 days ago

That’s my fear

billshea19.bsky.social•31 days ago

The question comes down to this: Are the ideals outlined on the Constitution worth dying for, or do we trudge defeated and meekly into permanent Night?

bennelli612.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yup, exactly. Are we willing to die? That is gonna be exactly the question.

billshea19.bsky.social•31 days ago

Get enough people in the streets, cops and soldiers stand down and often join:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-3-5-percent-solution/

bennelli612.bsky.social•30 days ago

....and I agree with this also, power in numbers for sure. I think that's what concerns me. We're not the same people we were in the 60s. We're lazy now. We order off Amazon and have our groceries delivered. Will enough of us take to the streets?

kimadilla.bsky.social•31 days ago

Well repubs did just release and pardon ~1,500 violent, armed criminals so

johnnyquestlove.bsky.social•31 days ago

We don't stop until they're hanging by their ankles in the plaza.

tsunade1999.bsky.social•31 days ago

I wonder, if every single woman and person of color went on strike, would the minority of white men realize that they are, in fact, a minority? Or, do they know this, and that’s why they’re so scared?

billshea19.bsky.social•31 days ago

That's the crux of their great replacement theory bullshit

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