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What would a General Strike look like in the US? (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I keep seeing articles about the tech sector billionaires going mask off. I remember there being rumblings of a tech sector union. Also in the last 4 years there have been some ground gained for unions in the service sector too.

Wages are suppressed and with the looming tarrifs goods will be more expensive. Also anyone earning under 300k is going to see an increase in taxes with the proposed tax structure.

It seems around 30% of the population are really excited about Trump, 1% of that are funding efforts to support his platform. So what do the other 70% do? Do they strike?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

We could have already done this.

We all watched as the price of EVERYTHING went higher, but how many of us actually changed our daily habits?

We just kept doing what we do, but the paychecks didn't last as long. We told those companies, "No matter how outrageous these prices get, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PAY!"

And so they kept testing that, by raising them more and more and we kept buying and paying.

When we finally noticed that things were out of hand, and we asked what had happened, those companies (from atop large cartoonish thrones of money) said that immigrants and trans people were to blame.

And 30% of us fucking believed it.