The one question every single person in Europe asks me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So true. Strikes will only hurt businesses and other people, not the government.

Some strikes need to hurt some businesses. Not all. But some. They only care about earnings and are part of the problem in this equation.

Strikes are more effective than protests.

Shut down rich people’s ability to travel and they’ll sing a different tune. Find ways to make their lives as difficult as possible. Stop picking up their trash. Stop delivering their mail. Stop bringing McD’s to old Donnie.

Either that or the Secret Service needs step up, do the world a favor, and Caligula them all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So true. Strikes will only hurt businesses and other people, not the government.

Some strikes need to hurt some businesses. Not all. But some. They only care about earnings and are part of the problem in this equation.

Strikes are more effective than protests.

Shut down rich people’s ability to travel and they’ll sing a different tune. Find ways to make their lives as difficult as possible. Stop picking up their trash. Stop delivering their mail. Stop bringing McD’s to old Donnie.

Either that or the Secret Service needs step up, do the world a favor, and Caligula them all.

Strikes are hard bc an entire sector of workers need to co ordinate and have demands.
This is more of a broad issue. Strikes could work - but you’d have to get millions of people to either a. Not show up for work on certain days or b. Go on buying strikes where they - for example - don’t buy from any company that supports Trump

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On one hand, I agree that Americans who oppose this need to get their acts together. I think sustained nationwide strikes are the only way. Pilots, truck drivers, TSA, nurses, teachers … could shut the country down if they want to. Collectively we could do it, but sadly collectivism is not an American trait.

This will be our downfall.

On the other hand, our society is set up so that Americans live in fear. We fear losing our jobs because our jobs give us access to healthcare. We fear people with guns. Trump is programming us to fear brown people.

Our collective fear means we’re afraid to strike.

But what would be the end result? Does anyone really think Trump and Vance and everyone else in line after them would voluntarily step down? They will not give a crap about strikes.

I don’t think you get how crippling strikes are. It’s very un american but massively effective.
If a huge cohort of the population takes economic action, corporations would be under enormous pressure not to cozy up to Trump, for example. Democrats and independents as a bloc have huge spending power - easily enough to make a big impact

[Anonymous]

The only likely strikers are federal bureaucrats. And that tends to backfire and turn into jerky Republicans jokes about how everyones IS glad we went on strike. Or didn’t notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So true. Strikes will only hurt businesses and other people, not the government.

Some strikes need to hurt some businesses. Not all. But some. They only care about earnings and are part of the problem in this equation.

Strikes are more effective than protests.

Shut down rich people’s ability to travel and they’ll sing a different tune. Find ways to make their lives as difficult as possible. Stop picking up their trash. Stop delivering their mail. Stop bringing McD’s to old Donnie.

Either that or the Secret Service needs step up, do the world a favor, and Caligula them all.

Because only rich people rely on travel or trash pickups or mail? Or medical services, electricity, water, public transit?

[Anonymous]

What are you striking for exactly? Please don't say it's just to cripple current administration because it's not enough. What are you trying to actually BUILD? You think people will join you to bring back Weekend at the Bernies guy or Kamala? Do you believe that even all these lost government jobs will come back? What exactly are you trying to fight for here ? Your message is empty. Please stop comparing this to labor strikes that have very specific goals and usually narrowly defined set of demands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

Recently returned from multiple European countries myself. Surely you understand that those people you mentioned limit themselves to CNN and BBC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We haven't had effective protests in the US since the Vietnam era. These days, street protests are associated with Gaza and BLM. The vast majority of people who are appalled by Trump don't want to be associated with progressive activists. It's a problem. Most Americans don't care for the looting and burning and pro-terrorism slogans that progressives tend to bring. And progressive looters and nihilists will take over any march. So those street protests tend to work in favor of Republicans - see the Gaza and BLM protests. It's not effective.

The position ‘protests aren’t effective’ is….. ridiculous.

You may not have liked blm - but was it effective? Hell yeah. Try to find me one person who doesn’t know what blm stands for. Try to find me one cop who doesn’t know about the blm protests.

The idea that we are powerless feels so incorrect as to be troll worthy. We aren’t. Remember the Arab spring? Remember the anti apartheid protests? Remember Selma? No one was like ‘oh but we might be associated with the black panther party’ gtfo

BLM protests were anything but peaceful. What you are seeing now is a pushback. Remember the couple in NYC who threw a Molotov cocktail into a police car? They were professional people and all they got was a slap on the wrist.

As for Selma. I remember that. The protesters were not violent. Big difference.

Paul Kim, another violent Tesla protester who will be held accountable. Pay attention.

This is one of many reasons Americans put common sense back into the WH.

[Anonymous]

Tesla arsonists are going to prison. Kudos to Pam Bondi. Promises made, promises kept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tesla arsonists are going to prison. Kudos to Pam Bondi. Promises made, promises kept.

This admin uses Signal to make promises- they are easy to keep because they automatically erase after a couple of days.

[Anonymous]

President Trump campaigned on holding criminals responsible.

Promises made, promises kept.

Making America Great Again.

You haters can suck it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tesla arsonists are going to prison. Kudos to Pam Bondi. Promises made, promises kept.

Everyone agrees that arsonist should go to jail. What’s your point?

Also, learn some new vocabulary. You’re starting to sound like your leader with his fourth grade vocabulary.

[Anonymous]

It's because we are still worn out from round one, when all the protests didn't make any difference.

Probably the same things Germans said when Hitler finally came to power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:President Trump campaigned on holding criminals responsible.

Promises made, promises kept.

Making America Great Again.

You haters can suck it.

Troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:President Trump campaigned on holding criminals responsible.

Promises made, promises kept.

Making America Great Again.

You haters can suck it.

Troll.

Troll.