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We wait for the order for the general strike, and then we do our part.

You do not wait for an order, because there is no central authority for a general strike. That's what gives it legitimacy.. You canvass, wheatpaste, recruit or whatever sort of political organizing/agitating you find appropriate. You have to meme it into existence.

I'm not being facetious but genuinely curious: who would issue such an order with enough authority for you to follow it?

Not OP, but someone with a significant national platform and an explicit call (dates, details, support from other prominent folks), not a generic "we should do something!" hint.

I'd find calls from, say, AOC or Taylor Swift more interesting than rando red rose LARPers.

If you wait for someone else to do the hard work nothing will happen, look at the French yellow vests, it started from nothing, and the causes were laughable compared to what the US is going through now

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests

It could get blown out like occupy wallstreet, or, if a natural leader arises to keep momentum focused, they could end up like MLK...

Swift? i don't think we should be looking to entertainers for political leadership, that's just following in the footsteps of how we got Trump.

You're not gonna get a general strike without people with significant national influence pushing for it, and it's not gonna be Chuck Schumer.

They're not gonna push for it without grassroots organization, which means doing things at the local and online level to get the idea in wide circulation. It's not a startup.

Absent this, people will get more and more frustrated which will eventually manifest as riots as it did in 2020. So if you prefer a more peaceable outcome, I think it's better to talk up the idea of a general strike rather than talk it down.

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