I’m glad that after Minnesota general strikes are on the table again. Especially now that we’re bringing May Day back.
We need to shut it all down for weeks before they realize we’re serious. But to foster change we’d have to shut it down for months.
That’s why nothing will change.
Not with that kind of attitude.
Ok let’s try one day first. You know, get our legs under us.
Beautifully coincides with May Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day
They are trying to co-opt May Day and neuter it
That’s what Labor Day was for. You seem very confused. Did you get hit in the head recently?
May Day is for recognizing labor. The US oligarchy is using that date to redefine what that day was designed for by using terms that are gaining reactions in the US, coopting them so they can neutralize the impact. They are doing to labor what MAGA communists are doing to neuter communism with disenfranchised conservatives.
FYI to others: I have this tankie from Lemmy.ml tagged as believing China doesn’t ban images of Xi as Winnie the Pooh, lol.
All I ever see them be is antagonistic, sowing apathy, defeatism, or trying to egg people with stochastic rhetoric (but never themselves, of course).
There’s more than a few of these around. They start shit on otherwise seemingly normal posts for no reason, and often have a couple (friends? Alts?) to give them a couple upvotes to keep them afloat. IDK why they seem more prevalent lately and they’re only there to be dicks and not actually engage.
Its the fragile little bird again. Hows that boot taste?
Explain why you think a general strike is neutering workers?
A 1 day event is not a general strike, it’s a performance
Damn dude, you ever reconsider a position after being ratio-ed that hard?
As if I care what BlueMAGA thinks
Now you’re talking
The general strike will be May 1 between the hours of 12-230pm. Be sure to bring signs and do not inconvenience anyone/anything. This will show them who’s in charge.
Except it won’t.
You are not doing anything, you can’t even get something simple like a protest right
Ml user here, I think it’s rad. Gonna radicalize the libs at my local protest with May Day history ¯_( ツ)_/¯
Like, I think the No Kings protests, for instance, while great at getting people out, struggle to give those people direction, beyond the big protest.
But any good Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, [insert preferred flavour of leftist] will know that you go where the masses are. And if the masses are at a big protest, then you go to the big protest to recruit, educate, and even just network with cool people and orgs.
