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Do you know that none of them organize? Have you considered that the slightest mention of union or strike in many places leads to immediate termination, especially in at-will employment states? Loss of a job means loss of healthcare which means death. I'm not trying to play the victim. I am fortunate to be able to organize with local leftist organizations and my healthcare is secure. Most Americans are not so lucky. It's not some absolute extreme, it happens to people we know and love.
It's so easy to make the assertions you do. I'd like to see you choose those actions over your child's medication. We don't get a social safety net. If we're fired, it could mean we go into lifelong debt, homelessness, or simply die. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Those who can should organize. Those who cannot should care for their family and immediate community.
I do know... hence my bitching
Already covered... they should not have accepted those conditions but they did... just as they accepting these new, lower conditions. As time goes by it will only get harder.
Case in point, 11 million of their fellow Americans lost access to health care a few months ago... so yes I understand they must risk something, but they will lose everything anyway if they just sit and wait.
So, exaggerating as everyone is doing here, if you are kidnapped and the kidnapper assures you there is zero chance he will let you live. Do you fight back? or wait in case the kidnapper changes his mind?
Again, you are just waiting for your turn to slaughter
Ah. You're a troll. "Should not have accepted those terms," lol, lmao even.
you are the one living in a hellhole and refusing to even recognize it.. I wouldn't laugh so much but I commend you for your humour
You... think I don't recognize it? What? I'm a leftist queer woman living in a declining dystopia. I'm laughing at the fact that you think we can just say no to terms that every job has in many areas, especially hourly ones. They keep you working 39.5 hours a week and never let you go "full time" so they don't have to give benefits, or classify you as a contractor, and your only option is paying a portion of your salary for the opportunity to have healthcare you could otherwise never afford. I was forced to stay in a hellhole job for years because I was broke, had nowhere else to go, no better opportunities, had every job application denied because they're mostly fake postings to make the facade of growth hold in our failing economy, all because if I didn't stay in my job I would no longer be able to afford health insurance for a life changing surgery I would otherwise never afford. I couldn't just tell them "no, I won't accept those unfair terms," BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY OPTION. We don't have comprehensive labor laws! Most of us live in wage slavery! Any talk of union or strike would mean the immediate loss of employment, and yet I still organized behind their backs.
I laugh because someone is looking at a victim of an oppressive regime and saying "not good enough." I laugh because otherwise I'd cry. Recognize your fucking privilege and leave the cynicism at the door. I'm doing everything I can, just like most of us. Even the complacent ones are victims of oligarch controlled media brainwashing, and a culture of exceptionalism and nationalism that keeps us trapped in a bucket of boiling water and thanking the cook for the opportunity.
I'm scared, I'm angry, and I'm frustrated looking at a culture that thinks a "blue wave" in the midterms will change everything, when our system is irreparably broken. I want to see a general strike. Any attempts to organize one will fail and have failed, because people cannot afford unemployment. All I can do is organize and educate and hope we get some change around healthcare and labor laws before it gets too much for me and I leave.
so your way out is doing nothing? waiting until they come for you?