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The WHOLE system? Do you promise? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (11 children)

General Strike. International. We can start out smaller and part time, work up to big ones, the more the government gets rough trying to force us back, the more and longer we walk off jobs and stay off of them until demands are met.

Create Unions of Unions that cover everyone, regardless of where they work, to bargain. Leaderless perhaps. We have leaders but they aren't even known whom they are. Leaders by virtue of their own character, for the unions, to prevent persecution. Maybe just spitballing on that part.

The general strike, spread worldwide, to China, to SE Asia, to Europe. We could take some real power back from these leaders using technology to prostrate us before them and fix elections.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    Cool idea, but no practical way to implement it within the current system.

    They would basically just starve us until we had no choice but to give in, or we just die.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    How are they gonna starve us when workers are the ones who grow the food, deliver the food to grocery stores, stock the shelves, and sell other workers the food? If we actually had more unions and did some organizing with a general strike in mind, we could setup strike funds and a plan for how to get food during a general strike. Then all we'd have to do is support each other and wait them out til our demands are met.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    If we actually had more unions and did some organizing

    That's a LOT of action packed into a single phrase. Maybe we'll get there, but organizing the ability to carry out every function in a bypass of current currency/ownership is as great, if not greater, a task than a war to overthrow the government... because practically, you would be overthrowing the government.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    How are you gonna do that without getting put on a list?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Let them list lists of general strikers, I will be one of all. We are already on lists just by virtue of being discontent. Computer memory is so cheap and vast they collect everything we've said or done, and use computer programs to make half baked determinations about you from it. But there is no escaping it, and it's coming for everyone anyway. We sill soon have social scores courtesy of the anti christ thiel himself, distributed to be used against us ALL secretely in ways we will never be told about or able to challenge. To pick winners and losers, decide jobs, government treatment, prices you are charged, search results you are shown, how companies treat you, whether you get that loan. All while they work to eliminate your jobs entirely to replace them with computers.

    There is no other option but to go on strike, their plans are well along, and will lead us to ruin.

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