Electoral politics doesn't get the job done

No, 10 days is way more than enough, it's even overkill.

If the full country, all workers, stopped for one (1) day, the billionaire elite would loose their shit.

Because they would instantly know that they lost control of the narrative, and that the people realized that it's them who have the elite by the balls, not the other way around, and they'd come begging to the table.

Americans aren't at that stage yet, but there's a chance that this cabinet and their incompetence will finally go too far and break the camels back.

Exactly. They’d see 10 days and go “okay I can hunker down and outlast it.” But a general strike with no designated end? They’d capitulate after only a few days. Giving them a timeline only allows them to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Kidney stones don’t suck because they hurt; The pain is similar to a bad muscle cramp. Bad, but not unbearable. They suck so much because you don’t know how long they’re going to hurt for. It could be a day, it could be two weeks, it could be a month, and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel until you know it’s passed.

nah. the guy luigi killed was replaced instantly. i don't think they even cancelled that meeting he was going to.

it was effective to give them a good scare and brought a little bit of class consciousness to the people but it fundamentally wont change things.

The cynic in me says there's a big overlap between the unemployed and the unrepresented, so to speak.

I tried organizing a board game night with 4 people. Literally impossible.

Many people cannot afford to strike

"getting"? It's a basic democratic right?.... You are a democracy, right? You bombed all those countries in the name of it...

Well the difference here is that during the election, people had a hard time getting angry at Republicans because they were wrongly* perceived as not being in power due to Biden's presidency. I doubt a general strike is likely as long as people feel comfortable and employed, but that could change and then I wouldn't be surprised if there's some serious tremors.

*Because Republicans in Congress blocked any new legislation and the Republican supreme court blocked whatever options were left over.

In 2028. The fuck? Now, my person. Now!

2028 is far too late. Climate, forced deportation, and widening inequality will have all of us so weak and poor we won't even survive the 10 days due to malnutrition.

When is Mayday?

And only callex those essential workers heros while not doing anything that would actually help them. Like increasing pay or protections

We can either take a week off from work now or die on a battlefield in Greenland.

It doesn't have to be everyone. I think I saw somewhere that the number just has to be like 3-6%

I would like to know what this mythical democratic government exists alongside capitalism. As long as we have a society that's dominated by capitalism and capitalists, there is no such thing as a democratic representative government.

Occupy refused to point out leaders knowing that Fox News would assassinate them in the media. Since they didn’t hand over leaders to assassinate, Fox News ginned up the story that the movement was directionless.

P.S. Please don’t “akually” about “Fox News” vs “The Media” in this context Its now a distinction without a difference. They’re all owned by the side winning the class war.

the american government has ariel bombed its bombed its citizens before. they will do it again. and i will point out the workers who got bombed last time knew that was a possibility. they were storming machine gun emplacements for the right to only work 40 hours a week. our ancestors fought to the death to make our world more survivable for us

Even if there were, I'd refuse.

It's called solidarity and community, look it up, in fact go learn some actual labour history before you make any more assertions about a subject you clearly know nothing about

Sounds crazy, but that's irrelevant. Understand the cost of shutting down a just-in-time economy. You're thinking like an individual, not a corporation.

You're out of work for 10-days, you're out of 10-days pay, that's it. Shut down, say, Walmart, and the logistical boondoggle would reverberate like a fucking shockwave. It would take months to resume normal operations.

FFS, look at what COVID did. Semis backup up for miles, for days, ships delayed for months. And that was with all of us trying to work and muddle through. After shutting down I-10 for a measly 2-days, I drove past 24-miles of backed-upped trucks once it started again. (There was plenty more, but I was at my exit.)

The scale of our economy is hard to grasp from an individual perspective, but the owners sure as fuck grasp it. There are factories and plants where stoppages cost millions per hour.

And when the mitochondria rebel against the tyranny of the nucleus?

They're so full of arrogance and hubris to be reasoned with.

Yeah, let's take this message and sow division instead! Great work!

Rich people spreading propaganda to advance their interests is the origin of media, and its reason for still existing. There has never been a time when they haven't owned all the media.

Vote people!!

They did. For Trump.

What makes anyone think that people will instead decide to put their livelihoods in peril to accomplish the same thing?

Assuming enough people do it, it's been tremendously successful historically. Hell, we saw what one week of diminished capitalism can do in March 2020.

You're talking as if liberals didn't lay the groundwork for everything Trump is able to accomplish.

You're also trying to conflate apathy for people refusing to vote for someone that does not represent their best interests. People that say 'vote' are usually looking out for their best interests and demand that everyone else support their best interests.

Billionaires will never let you vote away their money or power.

Never.

the populous is apathetic for various reasons.

Typical lib, refusing to actually look at the core of the problem (like trillions spent on propaganda, state and capitalist indoctrination since birth, people being deliberately kept too busy and burnt out trying to keep their head above the water, people being deliberately taught a whitewashed version of history and deprived of critical thinking skills, and the list goes on and on and on, but sure "various reasons" so easily dismissed and ignored), and instead expects individual to "solve" systemic problems (and I put solve in brackets quotation marks, because liberals, eternal guardians of the status quo, don't actually want to solve anything, hence the insistence of repeating the same mistake over and over, playing by the oppressor's rules, and pretending to expect a different result).

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

Lucy Parsons

Not a single one of our rights has ever been won via electoral politics, they have been won with a great deal of violence against the state and capitalism.

Kinda. Mostly. Sympathy strikes are outlawed, but one of the major unions is trying to get all contracts to end on May, 1, 2028. That would allow for a legal "general strike."