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so when is the general strike?
May 1st, 2028
Two and a half years from now??? Jfc there's going to be nothing left of the US by then
I'm not sure what people expect, tbh. A small fraction of the US workforce is unionized, labor law is a labrynthine mess (hence why the mechanic of a general strike being used here, is for unions to align their contract expirations with a certain day), and organizing this shit takes a lot of time and effort.
Every year or so, someone thinks they can just summon a general strike from Nothing, by starting a hashtag, and it never works, because this shit is hard
On the 26 of October 22 the government of France announced plans to increase the retirement age by 2 years.
Less than 3 months later protests began which led to massive disruption to the country.
The US decends into a full blown fascist dictatorship following the Hitler playbook (imprison/deport "undesirables" and invade a nearby country) and citizens say no action can be taken for over 2 years because it's too hard to stand up for principles and morals.
That's because France has a highly unionized workforce, and a population that will riot in the streets of the president so much as sneezes wrong.
It's not about principles or morals, it's that the material realities for labor in the US are very different. Not to mention, this general strike date was chosen in 2023.
Plus, it's not like nothing is happening. The lead up to the 2028 general strike necessarily involves a ton of organizing. I'm in an org that's currently seeding strategic industries in the area, in preparation for 2028.
Beyond labor, the No Kings protests were, numerically, some of the largest in US history. They didn't do much, on their own, but things like that are great for networking and pulling people into more granular organizing.
Not to mention that, beyond your average suburban liberal mom, peripheral parts of the American population (ie. Black, indigenous, immigrant, and queer communities) are very active, via various mutual aid campaigns, resistance to ICE etc.
Right, the citizens of France hold their elected officials accountable. Americans don't.
I agee, the "don't actually cause any trouble" protests, despite being some of the largest in US history, seem to have not slowed the decent into fascism at all. Maybe it was the whole "everyone clean up after yourselves and go back to work tomorrow like nothing happened so this can be easily ignored and forgotten" strategy.
If there's no resistance before 2028 then the US will have gone full Handmaid's Tale by then.
France is like 5% the landmass of the USA, USA has five times the population of France spread over a huge amount of land.
Not even vaguely comparable when it comes to organizing, not even considering France's powerful trade unions (unions have been smashed in the USA long ago).
"You don't understand, France has a significantly smaller population! That makes it easier for them to get more people to protest for some reason! The larger population of the US means there's nothing we can do but go about our lives like this is acceptable and hope we can vote our way out of fascism in 3 years!"
You don't all need to be at the same place to protest. Everyone in should be protesting outside their local government offices. People across the country at should be protesting in front of their local government offices.
More people= more trouble organizing.
The last protests in USA were 3x the population of Paris, if 100% of them protested at once.
But, in a huge country, that protest appears small.
You're in a community that the USA is a part of. You should be protesting, too... but instead, you're taking loans from us, buying military equipment for us, using our dollars to trade, and a thousand other ways you support the USA.
The last protests in the USA also made a point of minimalizing any disruption they might cause as much as possible so they could be easily and safely ignored.
You are right.
They love MLK and put him om a pedestal, but the Black Panthers are not part of the celebration, they have no holiday.
MLK without Black Panthers would have accomplished zero. That's my opinion.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there's a part where you have to win a series of battles under various combat-limiting conditions.
That's what this is.
I played that game and loved that Chapter. Thank you for making me smile.
Unions are less than 10% of US workforce. They've been smashed.
Who will organize a general strike? How?
Boy do Americans roll over and show their belly at the slightest bit of difficulty.
"If there's no one telling me what to do how will I know what to do?"
Tell us about your country, and I'll tell you how you roll over and show your belly to the Americans.
(you're doing it right now)