I don't like having to share my phone number, which is why I haven't signed up. Or that every social is the typical - discord, bluesky, youtube, instagram.

I'm all for the idea, but they give me big privacy worries.

It's what everyone is conditioned to think and believe

In reality, if they fight they might lose their jobs ...

.... if they wait to see what else happens, they'll probably lose their jobs anyway

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't ... if you do nothing, there is more of a chance of losing everything but if you fight back or at least protest peacefully and disrupt and disobey, there is enough of a chance that you and everyone else will have much more to gain.

The best chance we got is 2028, which will be badass if Trump is still in office.

He will never leave office willingly. He tried to overthrow the government last time he lost and this time he's a LOT better entrenched. You can't vote out a dictator. If you don't act and put your hopes in an election that won't help you, you've already lost your democracy. And honestly, you'll deserve it.

Dude I'm right there with you in thinking that we're just not capable of a general strike. We don't know our neighbors, don't hang out with strangers, and really have no community outside intimate relations. Shit seems like tons of people can't stand their friends and family either!

It's def the building infrastructure kind of advice and shit I wish people were doing and taking about more. How to we build that infrastructure and how do we connect with the people that are trying to build communities

I want to help correct what's happened here but I also don't want to fucking die or starve or become unhoused

Economic power is the basis of all the megaviolence. General strikes recuperate the true source of the power: worker productivity. Do it now before automation makes it moot.

There's a small amount of resistance in rural Tennessee but the general population is hypnotized by fox news.

We're not talking about you specifically, and it detracts from the message and the seriousness of the situation to use your specific situation as possibly representative of the rest of the country. If all people who can would strike, then we would be in a good place. You're an essential worker. We're not trying to kill off our elders.

https://generalstrikeus.com/

This has been there for more than six months. They aren't going to do anything but wave more signs in a couple of weeks. Should work this time.

I’ve been to several of the protests organized by those groups and I don’t think they are controller opposition but they seem to operate like psychological pressure release valves. We all feel like we’re doing something that will change things but until that mass of people shows up and then refuses to leave rather than dispersing after it actually won’t make a difference

Diasgree. With no federal apparatus to guide the force of all 50 states they are weaker on their lonesome and calling aid from one to another is far more burdensome. Besides, red states rely on federal funding from taxes in blue states and would collapse without them. Red states are major crop producers that the blue states consume. Balance of powers is the best bet. It's not perfect but it's far superior to dissolving the federal government which would undoubtadly start inter-state and civil wars. Unfortunately, the human propensity for conflict is best utilized in keeping each other in check and is best coupled with rewarding those who suppress suppression and are prepared to employ violence against the violent.

Or, you know, kick the bastards out, and close all the authoritarian loopholes. More democracy, stop subsidizing the fuck out of the rich, move that to education and research. Mandate empiricism in governance.

End US imperialism in favour of multilateral partnerships, especially around the 800 or so military bases in other countries, or else that shit returns home and gets used on Americans. The ship has sailed on being the one superpower. Adapt and evolve.

Myself, I favour smaller polities wherever possible, but given the current lack of an egalitarian basis to start from, breaking the states into countries will be a feast for the oligarchs.