Pass me the cyanide gas because this seems like a highly successful op.
The 30 year old dog walker did an interview on Fox that was pretty cringe but all in all not THAT bad imo but is set off a firestorm and 200k people instantly joined /r/workreform
Here's where it gets fun. The 3 mods of /r/workreform all work at the same bank. One is A CTO and the others claim to be low level employees. Link
The new sub seems like a bunch of libshits. "It’s work reforms not anti capitalism"
"This isn't necessarily an anti-capitalism sub. We may share many of the same ideals and goals, but "
"If you want anticaptialism, go to /r/LateStageCapitalism"
tl;dr a 30 yo dog walker was too much for the libs to handle 😅
It was a 1.4M member community that was constantly posting support for unionization efforts across the country.
While no vanguard, it was a significant space on reddit that pulled people away from some of the typical :brainworms:
Again being blunt, if you're 100% online then expressing rhetorical support for unionization is nothing more than screaming into a void.
True but I'm not looking at it from an actionable vanguard perspective.
In the same way most of reddit propagates brainworm lib takes, a large community all shouting "wtf is going on?" has an effect towards common view/perspective. It made people curious, interested, and supportive of strikes an union efforts, which in turn would help actual union drives because there'd be one less "but i could use my dues to buy xbox" dummy.
/r/antiwork was never going to take up arms, but libs need some place to start questioning the status quo. Its a shame it was cut short by baby anarchists who had no understanding of maintaining a movement.