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749 points doener | 1 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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paulyy_y ◴[01 Feb 25 13:52 UTC] No.42898268[source]▶
What's more depressing is this was completely predictable, totally avoidable, but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.
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diggan ◴[01 Feb 25 14:12 UTC] No.42898405[source]▶
> but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.

And the other half? They seem to welcome this as well, but with crossed arms. Where are the protests? Seems most people end up writing upset messages on Twitter/Bluesky, but also seems there are no grassroots movements to actually protest the borderline coup that is happening?

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CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 14:17 UTC] No.42898442[source]▶
Protest doesn't do anything. I marched plenty and it accomplished nothing except letting like-minded people blow off a bit of steam and feel like something we did mattered. If anything it was just a distraction.
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9283409232 ◴[01 Feb 25 14:26 UTC] No.42898513[source]▶
The answer is a general strike. This will never happen in the US though.
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CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 14:29 UTC] No.42898548[source]▶
Hard to strike when your boss can make you and your kid homeless. Housing precarity is a useful tool of control.
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1. 9283409232 ◴[01 Feb 25 14:32 UTC] No.42898568[source]▶
According to this[0], they want around 4% of Americans to agree to a general strike. The problem is the people who are most capable of surviving a general strike are not the same group that has the most impact in a general strike.

[0] https://generalstrikeus.com/