Edit: a second video explaining more in depth the problems with this strike. Some organizers have been pushing “across the aisle” style recruiting and trying to bring on Republicans and fascists:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdtUwy6N/
it is a total fucking shitshow. they barely have like 200 followers on twitter, literally ZERO unions have signed on, it is for a single day. if anybody is a fed, it's the guys who came up with this shit to discredit the idea of a general strike as a tactic
More people are saying this. Legitimately, a bunch of these “anyone who disagrees with me is a fed” comments are from blatant sock puppets. The organizing largely took place on Discord. Gotta figure all those names and degrees of militancy have been logged
Being a fed whose entire job is calling other people feds must cause the same sort of cognitive dissonance that leads well-meaning libs to go around screaming at people about being libs.
well-meaning libs to go around screaming at people about being libs.
I mean, that's just hexbear, no?
is this the breadtube strike again? where a bunch of lefty youtubers thought they could do... something... by like not uploading or watching for a day? cuz that was embarassing
no this is a bunch of kids decided that there's going to be a 1 day general strike on october 15th. no unions have signed on, their FAQ is full of lies like you can't get fired while striking, and they have no organisation at all. and a bunch of too online people who've never been in a union think this is gonna be some huge deal
oh that's even worse. "My discord has like 300 people, how hard can a general strike be lol. maybe i'll even make an event on facebook"
yes, it literally is that level of shit. and apparently calling this out makes you a fed lmao
I see it posted about a lot on /r/antiwork. There's a lot of genuinely desperate people who are ripe for organization who have clearly never read any theory to know what to do but have their heart in the right place. It's sad because it betrays how absolutely non-existent the left is in the US. There's all these people out there who hate their job, hate their boss, absolutely need support because they're being pressed against the grinding blades of capital but there's no organized faction for them to go to so instead they just post about their anger online as if that will conjure something into reality
Yeah that was the point where I completely stopped taking breadtube seriously, that was a big yikes.
Unless it’s to do a mass ex*cution, dont waste our time bringing the right on this
I mean any actually effective strike would in fact involve appealing to people who may have voted for a Republican
At some point you kinda have to move past the critiques of random people not knowing what they are doing because that's pretty much the default state of large groups of people trying to get out of distress. Instead it becomes more apparent there's a larger failure where the established orgs aren't offering any guidance or leadership while left wing educators, public figures, etc also aren't disseminating useful tactics to the general public.
I would even go as far as to say there's a more instinctual rejection of existing leftist institutions developing where on the eve of a crisis people aren't going to them for support because nobody thinks it's worth it. There's more trust in getting a mob of people out on the street and hoping something happens.
Yeah but right now the US is so propagandized, the left doesn't even have a mob
There’s a shit ton of information and resources out there on how to organize a strike. It’s just buried in shit because that social infrastructure straight up does not exist. “Leftist institutions” is an oxymoron. And who exactly are you hoping would be active enough on tiktok and discord to know this was even happening, let alone that it was worth coordinating with? What left wing public figures should have supported this strike but failed to?
More organized than this. There were at least pockets of people doing direct action with a plan. And it was used as a movement to build protest infrastructure, which will not happen on a single day strike
I wish people here weren't so eager to take a giant shit all over the idea of a general strike, even if this one is poorly planned. It's an incredibly important thing to have in our regular discourse, and with shit like new COVID outbreaks, eviction waves, weather disasters, etc. on the horizon, we should absolutely be doing preliminary organizing and building labor relationships to enable a future action like this. Anything short is straight-up liberalism.
Yes. And it should be done with the cooperation of existing unions. And its organizers should have mutual aid funds lined up for bail and for supporting the striking families and for legal fees. And it should not court fascists in its messaging campaigns. The problem is not the idea of a general strike. It’s that this experience is doomed to fail and the failure will discourage people from giving it a second chance as well as get a shit ton of people fired
