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General Strike. Shut down the economy until ICE is out. Put the Trump administration under economic siege. It is peaceful, and it will work.
by buellerbueller 9mo ago
General Strike. Shut down the economy until ICE is out. Put the Trump administration under economic siege. It is peaceful, and it will work.
- DoctorOW 9mo agoThe problem I've found is coordinating. The idea that we need a sizable chunk of the country to all work together in leaderless organization, is noble but lofty. Every attempt I've ever seen is something extremely easy for the feds to disrupt like a Facebook, Reddit, or Discord group, where everyone collectively bikesheds and no decisions get made.
- buellerbueller 9mo agoCompletely agree; it's a classic game theory problem. One could start with every union that could be gotten on board, perhaps?
- mindslight 9mo agoI always see "general strike" mentioned as if it's some powerful solution to work towards. But even ignoring the practicalities of organizing such a thing, I don't understand how the effects would be helpful. It's not like the brownshirts would go on strike, Trump is happy to print trillions of dollars in new debt, it would impoverish many of the very people working against this, and the type of society-wrecking chaos would appear to be exactly what Trump (ie his foreign handlers) want.
- buellerbueller 9mo agoIt will very definitely crash the economy, eventually, regardless of the known issues you point out.
- mindslight 9mo agoYes, sure. But this appears to be one of Trump's goals as well. Every single policy seems designed to irredeemably wreck our country - riffing off of longstanding frustrations of Republicans and ostensibly framed in terms of addressing them so they cheer in support, but implemented so terribly wrong that it's hard to keep assuming mere incompetence rather than an active hybrid warfare attack.