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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!

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Anonymous wrote:Minnesota is planning a general strike on Friday, January 23. The call is for people to stay home and do nothing for 24 hours.

No idea if there is any effort to spread it to other states. Worth keeping an eye on. Regardless I will not be participating in the US economy on Friday.

I'm guessing you don't have kids in school?

Jesus Christ people. Freedom is a constant struggle. Every freedom you have is because someone fought and died for it. You can sacrifice just a tiny bit to continue enjoying the freedoms you have because others sacrificed for you.

This. It cracks me up that MAGA was the "don't tread on me" group rioting on J6. Now they need new signs that say please tread on me daddy trump.

You’re so witty

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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.

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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.

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Minnesota showed up!

And what was the result? Nothing, apparently, except for some self-congratulatory postings from the choir. Government policy has not changed.

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Minnesota showed up!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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.

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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

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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.

Then name some ways to draw attention to an overreaching federal government. If you had your way, we would all be speaking the King's english and enjoying kidney beans and yorkshire pie.

DP. Yet at least some of us might have been better off today if the war of 1812 or the Revolutionary War had resulted in different outcomes.

As to the first comment though — The government is financed in large part by taxes of different sorts. Consumer behavior impacts several types of taxes and tax carve outs — linkages that are far from being “totally absent”. Consumer behavior and the productivity of businesses both directly impact tax revenue — something that the government “cares” about inasmuch as tax revenues impact the ability to implement policies.

true, but while "blue states" subsidize "red states" in most cases, it isn't like there is a mechanis for blue taxpayers to withhold taxes and not draw the wrath of the remaining IRS agents out there, so I agree that a general strike is a good move, but I wish it were national and not just in Minnesota. I also agree with a PP that there is no appetite or culture of this sort of form of protest in the US.

Not yet anyway, but the blue states are working on it.

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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!