Lot of people don’t really seem to get that. Read up on the biggest strikes in this country’s history. Those people surely weren’t “privileged” enough to lose wages or their jobs but the risk was worth it.
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The people who can afford it least are exactly the ones who are needed to strike. If every woman in my office took the day off, it’d be a quiet day (not saying they talk a lot, saying that there would be significantly fewer people here), but things would get done, and the work that didn’t get done would still be here…
One thing that happened in the strike in Poland was that women whose bosses didn’t support the strike just quit their jobs. Not everyone has the privilege/security/ability to do that, but i thought it was pretty ballsy and awesome.
if protest isn’t uncomfortable, isn’t causing tension, it’s not going to be effective.
but on the other hand, the point of a general strike is to stop of the machinery of capital by removing the laborers who keep the gears turning. A strike whose participants are essentially surrogates for those who can’t get away from work is largely without meaning or impact.
Yea, I have tons of respect for those Yemeni bodega owners; you know they work on really narrow profit margins, and closing down for 8 hours was a big sacrifice for a lot of them.
Well, that’s kind of the point of a strike. Yes, strikes hurt the workers. But the idea is that the injustice you’re striking against is more damaging than the loss of wages.
Every word of that article is straight up amazing. Donald Trump is trapped in a Being There remake of his own making.
And yet we keep hearing about how woke and involved Millennials are, while 75% of them were too “cool” to vote. Time they redefine what’s cool.
Trump is going to make us pay over the next four years for the fact that he’s not endowed with...popularity the way Obama was. What happened on inauguration day and the fact that Hillary beat him in the popular vote will always rub Trump the wrong way so he won’t stop lashing out. There’s more of this to come.
Do people need to be actually shot before they realize an entire government is waging war against them? I am so tired of hearing peers of mine (FD: I’m 30 years old) downplay the severity of everything Trump, or act like they are the cool kid who doesn’t care about anything political. What’s almost as maddening as…
I work within a 5 minute walk from the Oklahoma City Bombing memorial.
I encourage everyone to read up on Timothy McVeigh’s political ideology.
He was a white nationalist, isolationist, 2nd amendment enthusiast, distrustful of big government. He and Michael Fortier drew up the diagrams of how they would blow up the OKC…
To answer your penultimate question, I’ll give you an old George Carlin quote:
lol @ the people who are all “I thought he’d be more presidential after he’d won.” or “I didn’t actually think he’d do those terrible things he said he was going to do!”
That’s why I put on mindless travel/Food tv when I get home from work. News can wait until tomorrow.
THIS WAS YOUR FUCKING CHOICE WHITE AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY
I have to take a couple days off a week otherwise I’d have panic attacks. I don’t feel like we live in reality anymore.
Of course he will, he’s gonna sign a religious freedom EO in the next couple days.
Does anyone else take a periodic break from the news? I don’t want to bury my head in the sand, but each one of these stories (ranging from him being an insensitive moron to committing absolute atrocities) makes my brain hurt more and more. How did this ever happen? How did 63 million people vote for this 70 year old…