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When do we start the general strike?

Because that is what is going to take to stop this corruption, which otherwise will be endless.

With so many saying "the economy" is why they voted for this regime, it's going to be excepionally difficult to convince them to make their own economic prospects worse by striking.

The other issue with a general strike here is that the people backing this up have more money than $deity, and I'm sure that they realize that they have more than a single person could resonably spend in a lifetime. I think that would lead to an acceptable tradeoff of smaller "income" for more power.

I'm afraid a general strike would just be ignored.

Most people won't care until it starts to directly affect them. And I don't mean "this will make air travel less safe and you fly sometimes so this directly affects you," I mean direct, immediate consequences. 90 million eligible voters didn't bother to vote last time around. Another 77 million voted for this. That's two thirds of voters who either don't care or are in favor. And it's not like there was any mystery. Nothing that's happening now should be the least bit surprising.

Agreed. The scorpion didn't try to hide what it was, and the frog still gave it a ride.

Has the US ever done a general strike?

I don't know! We do, however, have a fun history of the oligarchs getting the governments help breaking the strikes, including using the national guard to gun down striking workers and their families.

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

If Trump wants to use the military against illegal immigrants, you can be sure he'd have no qualms using it against illegal strikers.

> With so many saying "the economy" is why they voted for this regime, it's going to be excepionally difficult to convince them to make their own economic prospects worse by striking.

The price of eggs didn't go down, Trump hasn't done anything pro-economy, and hundreds of thousands of pointless layoffs are happening (DEI firings include conservative wifes, conservatives with disabilities, black conservatives, veterans, who could have known?).

Economic prospects are nose diving regardless, so there's no reason not to strike.

Many people have so many of their own problems, debt, whatever, that it takes a lot more than this to get them out of their homes and on the streets.

That is one thing Europeans do well which Americans do not.

Gov workers aren't allowed to strike, and if they did, Trump is the type of person who might just fire them all and leave the government for dead.

There are probably only a few groups who have real striking power and are difficult to replace. ATCs maybe the most. If they all walked out in protest, the government would be in a major pickle. But boy would they be targeted by the MAGA crowd. I can see Elon doxxing them and the striking ATCs getting death threats and worse.

I'm not sure why people think that would change anything. The people in charge are completely insulated to any repercussions and aren't accountable to anyone.

Any Republicans who turn against the regime will be ousted and replaced with bootlickers.

I don't think they would be insulated from a general strike.

How would it affect them? Any of Musks employees doing it would be fired immediately.

And then they'd need to find some scabs to do their job instead.

They have infinite money, so that's not really hard to do.

Money can't actually buy everything. Experience is hard to replace.

I think we're clearly seeing that money can, in fact, buy everything.

Worse than that, Republican elected officials are scared of violent retaliation by Trump's mob of goons for disloyalty.

Newer, different boot-lickers.

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