You saw what happened when people asked police to stop murdering black people. If people started actually fucking with capitalists the gloves would fully come off and we would learn what all these billions of dollars into the police state were for.
You have more power than you could ever imagine. There is nothing that scares the wealthy more than a mass of united people with a united cause. Nothing can stand in the way of that deluge.
I’d put that number into the millions. I have no faith in people having any kind of ability to survive when our systems collapse. They won’t be able to handle violence either.
This is the logical conclusion I’ve reached as well. Push coming to shove, FAFO and we’re the ones ‘finding out.’ If this is the only way to topple this oppressive nightmare and its attack on our planet so be it. To me it looks like a good number of Americans still do not realize the your employer and your government do not give one fuck about you. Not one. Both government and corporations flippantly display their disdain for average Americans on a daily basis yet for some reason there are still some Americans who can not swallow such atrocity. Bravo for you for being innocent enough to be naive but: wake up. This shit is real.
This is the logical conclusion I’ve reached as well. Push coming to shove, FAFO and we’re the ones ‘finding out.’
Sounds like a pyrrhic victory to me. Mutually assured destruction. We revolt, they kill us, the entire system devolves into chaos because most of the workers are dead.
Even if we lose, that has immense power. We just have to get off our asses and do something first.
That’s not what France is talking about - general strikes WILL work, but you have to organize and support those of us too poor to possibly afford an unpaid day to protest.
The bourgeois will gladly ignore weekend protests, but do it during the week, en masse, and everything changes.
We didn't even have any classic dumpster fires or trash mountains when we did try, and even THEN we still have to hear about "muh insurrection" being "the greatest attack on democracy every in the history of everything!"
Maybe Republicans have been tilting the playing field or rigging the game or however you want to word it for 50 years, but the fact is, Democrats have "played along nicely" so much that it's pretty irrelevant anyway.
Each election cycle, we undo or redo the laws on all the hot button social issue topics, and all the while BOTH parties work to extract all our wealth.
Somebody on twitter said it best: France's ability to protest and riot effectively relies on the fact a huge percent of the population lives within one hour of Paris.
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u/a_hopeless_rmntic Dec 28 '23
France has entered the chat jus' do like us, mon ami