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It's amazing how close we are to a defacto strike. like literally any day it could happen. good luck
But that’s why we don’t hold much power right now. Like if we want to do something like a general strike we’d have to set up actual dual power, the society within the society to provide for us. We’d need to either seize the factories and farms physically or set up our own. If we just did a general strike in that sense right now they’d wait us out for like a week
would be pretty easy to hire scabs, for sure. these companies could easily afford $20/hr to break a strike. they could also just close up shop, too. thats the problem; food and housing for the rich are removed from the immediate affects of labor from the working man. so what if cities worth of people starve; better than helping the poors
this is bullshit. of course the rich are more insulated from the economy; they always have been. you know what isn't insulated from labor? their fucking profits! that's the point of a strike, not to literally starve to boog or some shit.
Capitalists can handle a temporary loss in profits to starve out a strike. They've always done that! It's a long-term strategy.
Yeah, it wouldn't be easy. They don't even live near anyone else anymore, theyre all snowboarding out west.
just said this somewhere else, but when shit hits the fan, head to the hills. the rich know whats up
What would happen in reality is that people would volunteer to be grocery store workers and hospitals would just fail.
Yeah that's tough man. But it's probably the right decision given how covid is just blowing up all over the USA. All I can say is that I hope it works out somehow
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I mean the thanksgiving bump has only started and the USA is already at over 3100 deaths a day. And that's not including all the execess deaths the healthcare system is probably missing. After the Christmas and New year's bump it's going to be really dire. Fuck this shit sucks. In my country some rich kids in their final year of high school went to party and there were some super-spreader events. Ffs if some rich kids partying at the coast is going to start another wave of coronavirus in my country I'm going to start a protracted people's war against the suburbs (oviously a joke)
A friend's mother works for United Way, helping people make rent, etc. There are probably things in your area that can help you cover stuff until you're back on your feet. They're stretched REALLY thin now, so you'll probably go on a waiting list, but it's best to get on it as quickly as possible.
It's worth reaching out to every org in your vicinity, even if it seems like you might not qualify. If not, they can probably point you towards someone who can. There are people working hard on keeping people housed this winter. They just happen to not be our government :/
