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Why does it feel that the evil sides globally are winning. Even evil people are winning. Why?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In some ways, evil is getting the upper hand at the moment, mostly brought on by moderates failing to address basic and fundamental problems forming in society due to being corporate captured.

However, we have a few options at our disposal to fight back:

  1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will make the coming months much more bearable, and lay the ground work for effective resistance.
  2. We can still effect things drastically with a general strike. This massively impacts their income streams, and can bring the country to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
  3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Don't become paralyzed with doubt and fear, march on and push as much you can. Together we're strong, separated we are weak. So join up with allies while we still can easily!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Join a union. Most places won’t have IWW.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They're active branches in most cities, but they can be formed anywhere, even rural areas. If there's a local union that'll take you in and isn't corporate captured (teamsters being an example of corporate captured, IMO), then sure, that can work.

But the IWW is the only union that can unionize any industry, is global in scope, and is grassroots with a revolutionary spirit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

No shit. The IWW is here.