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We have no neighbors. Only an unruly 51st tundra state and a hoard of alien barbarians being held at bay by the ~~Night's Watch~~ ICE

OH THANK GOD they finally stopped exploiting me. Let me just catch my breath here and oh GOD OH FU--

Total collapse might not be required for real, tangible change. Collective action is a unifying force, and it would remind everyone top to bottom that the house of cards is in fact collapsible and not an inevitable behemoth under its own inertia.

You could argue that even with reforms the underpinning economic system remains as problematic as ever. But building that collective support, reminding poor voters that they're not temporarily embarrassed billionaires, adds more opposition to it than support.

After a long enough period of striking it begins to have repercussions beyond the individual budget.

If the flow of money slowed to a crawl for an extended period, companies don't have the funds to pay workers. Enough job loss leads to further reduced spending, thus impacting stock value, thus impacting employment, etc...

A month would have a noticeable impact, but a full fiscal quarter would be the first cliff where the big corporations would really sweat. But generally I agree, an economic strike with an end date is like an overnight hunger strike

Much respect.

Sometimes I imagine a counterfactual history where good people just abandoned those red states for purple ones in unison just before a census. A progressive gerrymandering of the Electoral College + House + Senate all at once.

Even just one cycle of that would have jerked the Overton window significantly left...

Maybe?...

DEI = Deny Every Injection?

Nobody answer, this guy might be a fed

I'd just like to step in here and remind the people at home that appeals to hypocrisy are a logical fallacy. Just because someone isn't doing what they say should be done doesn't mean they're wrong.

Thanks, I'll hang up and listen.

Edit: Forgot to add one thing. This conversation is about collective action, a particularly silly place to judge the actions of a single individual

Not a lawyer but I wonder how much teeth that law has. The GOP/Trump has put on a clinic on how to legally gum up the wheels of justice, it seems like unions could try the same. Delay, argue technicalities, appeal, rise, repeat...

For example: if you spend 2 months in court arguing about who organized what and what they're technically striking for, damage could still be done even with the strike broken up. Multiply that by a few major unions and it adds up.

You can already see a similar plan coming together with UAWs 2028 contact expiration plan. Its not a general strike, there's just coincidentally a lot of strikes at once.

Of course there's a stricter set of laws and leeway when you're not a corrupt oligarch so it wouldn't work. But it's fun to think about...

I'm not sure why Trump is front and center in the picture. Putin should be center pulling Trump on all fours with a leash

Oh huh, interesting... 📃✍️

Wouldn't composting just release more greenhouse gasses? We need a more effective means of carbon capture, or maybe directly repurpose them as some sort of nutritional paste