January 23 MN General Strike

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because not going to work, which will cost you personally in either lost wages or in expended paid leave, or by reducing business income for a day, will actually lead to a change in government policy? What a bizarre and irrational presumption. Why does the government care if you go to work or not? Nor does the government care if you spend money. The linkage between employee/consumer behavior and government policy in this way is totally absent.

What else can we do? I have no ideas. Does anyone? I feel so helpless as the mid- terms are a long way off.

You get what the majority vote for. If your favored candidates and policies lose, too bad. It's called democracy, not a tyranny of the minority. Vote when you can, and accept that your preferences are not universal - other people want other things than you do. That's the way democracies work. An inability to accept that doesn't lead to a way to impose your will on others, whether through a "general strike", rioting in the streets, or by posting diatribes on social media.

So the fools that used our democracy voted in an oligarchy led by a wannabe absolute monarch. No, that’s not what our founding fathers were hoping for. That’s a whole separate country (which, I’d be happy to give MAGA if the rest of us who give a hoot about the Constitution never, ever have to deal with again.)

Can we just give the magas Texas? They can split off and become their own dysfunctional country.

Should we throw Florida in too?

[Anonymous]

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Minneapolis

-10 at 1 pm

Has anything changed?

Good point.
In August 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized the Alexandria Library sit-in in Virginia (now the Alexandria Black History Museum).
Nothing changed
In 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality sponsored sit-ins in Chicago, as they did in St. Louis in 1949 and Baltimore in 1952.
Nothing changed
College students led a successful 1955 sit-in at Read's Drug Store in Baltimore, but the event received less widespread attention than the Greensboro sit-ins.
Nothing changed

And so on, and on, and on
And eventually, things changed

Hopefully more quickly this time

So dramatic. Everyone knows Democrats don’t care about flyover states.

You have a lot of free time to be posting your stupidity all day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that all these people are gathering outdoors when it’s -8° should tell you how motivated they are. is ice gonna brand thousands of people “domestic terrorists”?

So cool! Lots of people who can afford to miss work!

scared huh

Not scared. Just impressed with Minnesotans' wealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Minneapolis

-10 at 1 pm

Has anything changed?

Good point.
In August 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized the Alexandria Library sit-in in Virginia (now the Alexandria Black History Museum).
Nothing changed
In 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality sponsored sit-ins in Chicago, as they did in St. Louis in 1949 and Baltimore in 1952.
Nothing changed
College students led a successful 1955 sit-in at Read's Drug Store in Baltimore, but the event received less widespread attention than the Greensboro sit-ins.
Nothing changed

And so on, and on, and on
And eventually, things changed

Hopefully more quickly this time

So dramatic. Everyone knows Democrats don’t care about flyover states.

You have a lot of free time to be posting your stupidity all day.

You as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because not going to work, which will cost you personally in either lost wages or in expended paid leave, or by reducing business income for a day, will actually lead to a change in government policy? What a bizarre and irrational presumption. Why does the government care if you go to work or not? Nor does the government care if you spend money. The linkage between employee/consumer behavior and government policy in this way is totally absent.

What else can we do? I have no ideas. Does anyone? I feel so helpless as the mid- terms are a long way off.

You get what the majority vote for. If your favored candidates and policies lose, too bad. It's called democracy, not a tyranny of the minority. Vote when you can, and accept that your preferences are not universal - other people want other things than you do. That's the way democracies work. An inability to accept that doesn't lead to a way to impose your will on others, whether through a "general strike", rioting in the streets, or by posting diatribes on social media.

So the fools that used our democracy voted in an oligarchy led by a wannabe absolute monarch. No, that’s not what our founding fathers were hoping for. That’s a whole separate country (which, I’d be happy to give MAGA if the rest of us who give a hoot about the Constitution never, ever have to deal with again.)

Can we just give the magas Texas? They can split off and become their own dysfunctional country.

Should we throw Florida in too?

Yes, bye bye Texas and Florida. And I'll even let them build a wall.

[Anonymous]

It was a huge flop. I really like the cropped photo posted earlier to exaggerate the size of the crowd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was a huge flop. I really like the cropped photo posted earlier to exaggerate the size of the crowd.

All the international newspapers I read covered it as front page news. Sounds like a big success to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was a huge flop. I really like the cropped photo posted earlier to exaggerate the size of the crowd.

All the international newspapers I read covered it as front page news. Sounds like a big success to me.

Even the NYT ran it top of page.
Perhaps a sign the worm is turning…

Trump has been a failure economically. And now the visuals of ICE in MN is not helping him. The children in cages thing is what turned Americans against him his first time around.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was a huge flop. I really like the cropped photo posted earlier to exaggerate the size of the crowd.

All the international newspapers I read covered it as front page news. Sounds like a big success to me.

This is because they are anti-American and want the good guys (USA) to look bad and the bad guys (socialist dung) look good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was a huge flop. I really like the cropped photo posted earlier to exaggerate the size of the crowd.

All the international newspapers I read covered it as front page news. Sounds like a big success to me.

This is because they are anti-American and want the good guys (USA) to look bad and the bad guys (socialist dung) look good.

Yawn, go away troll. Folks, don’t engage this troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I get that Minnesota has strong ancestral ties t Scandinavia, but this kind of collective action isn’t going to work here in America, even given how furious people are.

Just stop posting, maggot.

MAGA knows collective action works. And this sort of protest will spread. People are angry.

Absolutely.

One sign of how well the protest worked is the stream of anti-immigrant shills in some other threads. The Putin shills seem to be moving firmly away the idea of winning actual support for ICE, toward starting a civil war.

[Anonymous]

I don’t necessarily believe in a general strike but I do think democrats across the country should stop spending money/consuming on anything smbesides bare essentials

[Anonymous]

God bless MN.
The entire nation can learn from them. My God we are a weak bunch of pansies. Stop this tyranny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:do nothing? They'll just shop and scroll all day and give Bezos and Musk more $.

I won't. I cancelled my prime the day Bezos cut the Post endorsement of Harris. Haven't missed it at all

I cancelled Amazon Prime as soon as I could (they don't let you cancel until your "anniversary" day.

I don't miss Amazon one bit. Not for a second.

I just ordered a Ravensberger puzzle for two day shipping. Arrives tomorrow before the storm. Looking forward to it. Amazon rocks.

Wow.

A double loser?

Impressive.

It came. Amazon for the win!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t necessarily believe in a general strike but I do think democrats across the country should stop spending money/consuming on anything smbesides bare essentials

I don't understand how this would help.