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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59378754
The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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People like you are entirely unhelpful to your own cause.
A lot of people don't really want to get involved because they think that involves essentially signing up to be a soldier in some hypothetical civil war. And comments like that just reinforce that belief.
A general strike is the way you get progress in a non-violent method, (well actually the administration will probably make it violent but that will be on them) just ask the French.
Weird that others🧵 said the same thing I said, and they get upvoted.
They didn't say what you said. They said that they think a general strike in a few days is unlikely to succeed.
Meanwhile you were complaining that not enough murder in is going to be a happening
I said that a strike without impacts to fascist resources is ineffective.
Murder is what the fascists are doing.
Feeding people, sheltering the homeless, networking, and solidifying is
? ? ?
Giving people the power to defend themselves isn't enlisting to die for an authoritarian. Are you confused at who you're talking to?
If it's done everyday, until fascists can't function. Not a weekend festivity.
Can't tell if your banter is dated, or ignorant
Seems to me that not one of those is "demolishing deathcamps", so by your argument those are all "just festivities", no?
The thing you're arguing here is entirely different to your original comment that the above commenter was arguing against.
Are you unaware what a political cause is?
Echo Dot & I differ on what causes create change, and which do not. Unlike EchoDot, I am aware how historically strikes have been able to meet their demands, and it definitively didn't last 3 days.
Absolutely none of what you're talking about here has anything to do with your own prior comment. I mean you are complaining that action is being taken against people that you think are authorian but apparently it's not the kind of action you'd like so you basically dismiss it.
Please explain how your negative attitude is helping anyone.
For a singular day? What kind of strike meets demands in a singular day‽
Explain how your “positive attitude” worked for the Minnesota.