I was just reading about the fascist abolition of unions (historic and contemporary:ukkkraine:) and honestly, I didn't think that would fly here, not without entering the cool zone. Working conditions are so obviously fucked, poverty so obviously widespread, and those unionization efforts that succede in this, the most poisoned of all soil are inevitably those with the overwhelming support of the participants and people. Labor organizing is really the only non-treat release valve for the pressure of all these mounting contradictions, and it really feels like they've reached a level of public support that makes them both dangerous for :porky-scared-flipped: : to ignore and dangerous for :porky-scared-flipped: to try and kill in one fell swoop. That's not to say they won't try anyway-what is fascism if not irrational?- but the building steam of this newly-coalescing labor movement is such a central and visible point of struggle that I think making it illegal overnight would make a lot of people, not even necessarily ideologically aware people, go on an adventure against their boss as their last legal avenue of possible change to their miserable conditions is snuffed out. The past few years have shown us just how close everyone is to the end of their tolerance, and the past hundred years have shown that the boug barely notice and don't care- they will tighten the leash as profits fall, and conditions *will get worse. But they'll get worse in a way we have the power to explain, even as neoliberalism's power to explain its own failures fall below the level of bone scrying. The empire is as brittle and foolish as it's ever been, and Socialism is poised to overtake it on the world stage to a degree unlike anything since the first Cold War. It will become materially impossible to sit on the sidelines as failing supply lines and infrastructure lead the rich to abandon everyone else, a process that's already underway and that we can capitalize on. I'd bet you anything that leftists in Jackson, MI are having some of the most productive conversations with friends and family they've ever had right now. As climate change and imperial collapse worsens, more and more people will find themselves amenable to our point of view. Our allies number in the billions, they just don't know it yet. Now is the time for us to go out, to explain, and to never stop explaining:sankara-shining:.