Don't know if what I'm feeling is grounded in reality since I just had a particularly productive therapy session but I think I was feeling this beforehand too when I was scrolling this morning.
From what I'm seeing in the shift in posture, Stephen Miller blew his load and I assume Capital is getting antsy and is trying to cut off the Infinite Vice-Signal Machine. In a dark way, Alex Pretti was the perfect victim for the American public, and his execution was so blatantly appalling that it seems that that, alongside the general strike, is shocking the bourgeoisie into realignment with social liberalism for the first time since 2025's "mandate".
If it is the case that the leash is being pulled, expect to see the internal contradictions between the accelerationist cadre (ICE, Miller, Noem, Bovino, Thiel) and the thermostatics (Trump, Cruz, Vance) start to heighten. (EDIT: it, at least rhetorically, begins) The state-integrated Proud Boys and Oathkeepers on the ground are going to try to hit the gas on the tension pedal now that the leash for Unlimited GTA LARP might be tugged. They want to provoke the race war as much as they possibly can before the party ends. Miller, if competent, will take an L, fall into the background, and bide his time until we approach US midterms for another ramping up of domestic repression. They seem to want to make Noem and/or Bovino the fall guys for this, though I'd laugh if they somehow take Miller down with them.
If you are in the USA and my vibe meter holds (meaning the admin takes the L on this and retreats), you should be operating as if this is an armistice that will last, reasonably, at most until midterm elections. Even if they fold on their aura-farming about 'canceling the elections', treat it like they won't and immediately seek to organize with cool people within your area. gather the tools, strategies and general means to defend against and disrupt militant repression.
If I'm wrong (the admin doubles down), then we are truly in the Decades Week, agitate as much as possible to the laymen and rally for shows of worker power, as well as linking up with your local socialists and workers, of course. The former path's goals are worthwhile too if you and your comrades can muster them in time.
The best time to get offline and talk to the people in your area was when you first gained political consciousness. The second best time is now.
Whoever organised businesses into agreeing to the strike day I take my hat off to them because getting businesses to sign onto it is a huge "oh fuck" moment for the bougies. Realising that even business would align itself with the left (left of liberal) and organise against them is a moment of serious political recalibration.
Recognising that local business owners could be pushed into agreeing even if they didn't want to because so many of their workers would want to do it is great. It's a win win situation - if the business owners say no it estranges them with their workers, whereas if they say yes it scares the bougies.
There's already lists going around of places that refused to close. Despite what someone might think, it wasn't because they were desperate. Every single one was because the owners support ICE and there's more evidence to prove it.
Yeah exactly and that sets them against the community and very likely against some of their own workers. There was literally no way to lose with getting business on board with this one, a real moment where the left could cross collaborate between classes and couldn't lose out in any way by doing so. It was good organising.
Was it? I didn't know but I'm not that surprised.
The major corporations in Minnesota did not participate. Target is now the focus of multiple boycotts.
When we organised a boycott against a Tesco Express locally in Stokes Croft Bristol it escalated into full blown actual riots three times, over the equivalent of a corner shop simply existing in the neighbourhood.
Do not underestimate how pissy people can get against a corporation locally.
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