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We need to all be eyeing the break glass solution: a general strike. If Trump subverts the elections, then we turn off the economy until fair elections are held.
It's all good in words, but I've got maybe 3 days worth of food at my place. So come day 5 I'm fucked
That's why we're supposed to take care of each other in situations like that. My kitchen is overstocked and I'm a chef who knows how to make the most out of what's available. I share my food and you pitch in however you can.
Respect
I'm well versed in the art of I'm sure this and that will go together lol. I just know I am out of meat and am low on lentils at the moment. Was trying to think of something I could use the lentils for tonight.
My go-to for lentils is Dahl
https://www.noracooks.com/red-lentil-dahl/
This is the way
Mutual aid! It's a wonderful thing.
Come over to my place. I've got lots of food. Mutual aid is essential in a general strike.
Or ... just bust down the locked door of the grocery store and take some food. Illegalism is also good.
That’s why we plan for mutual aid right now.
And hopefully at this point people will realize that it was designed to be that way, then do something about it. This is modern slavery.
Sadly, I doubt it, they will still blame trans and brown people while being fucked by psychopaths.
Yeah, it’s not something everyone can just prepare and brace for on their own. It will require a temporary switch to full blown socialism wherein people take care of each other until everyone is on their own feet again*.
...buy more food?
3 weeks without food. Make sure you have a source of water first, then worry about the eating part.
I feel like fucking with the election could actually be the trigger for more people to actually act and even march in mass on Waahington. Its the one thing I can think of that I would very likely go for.
It would basically be the final break for "Are we permenantly broken as a country."
I don't know. We let an insurrection happen and then re-elected the leader of it. Not sure how many final lines we can have to cross. I think our government has already proven it's completely broken and needs to be replaced.
You do realize how close we were to elected officials hanging from the gallows on the front steps of the capitol, right? 1 locked door and a half dozen cops.
But regardless, the point is that the ringleader was never punished, and he was reelected and is sitting in the Oval Office right now talking about committing more election fraud after Elon "fixed those machines right up" in 2024.
Is that right? Because I'm not convinced. Even with data like this the knowledge of Trump's remarks about Elon "knowing computers", his completely lackluster few rallies before the 2024 elections, the bomb threats, the millions of mail-in ballots in ditches, and the various other election interference, we still haven't organized as a nation and removed the cheater.
In fact getting most people to actually look at the data is like pulling teeth.
I think instead we'll just roll over like the livestock we are for our oligarchic masters, as we've done so far.
Would love to be proven wrong though. Please my fellow Americans, prove my doubts wrong. Organize and become Wolves.
We need to start getting ready for the mass strike right now. The one that temporarily shuts off power plants, water treatment plans and grinds the entire economy to a halt. Evaporating 50% of their stock market assets should grab their attention.
Nah. They're all too busy scrolling TikTok.
You may need civil war before this is over. If striking is breaking glass, what would civil war be?
When they send in the cops and military to try and force people back to work, and people start shooting back.
How does that even work? Its not "North and South", its racist idiots in the sticks and everyone else.
Then you end the fucking racists like Sherman should have
IIRC, in the decades leading up to the 20th century, workers and other pro-labor bamfs in the US would go on parades around town to signal their collective strength to the bourgeoisie/industrialists and intimidate them into compliance.
Bring back the bullying of capitalists, please. Also, who doesn't love a parade?
A general strike is functionally impossible in the US. You'd need every major industry, every freight industry, and every service industry nationwide onboard. Most of the workers in those industries can't afford a weeks long strike. You'd need every major port on board. You'd need the capitalists to coordinate it because Americans fucking hate each other. We will have an open civil war with atrocities every day before we have a general strike.
Which is why I believe a rent/mortgage strike is far more viable. Builds up our resources as the working class, instead of depleting them. Imagine just a single month of no rent/mortgatge how much you could stock up in terms of supplies for a general strike.
Now imagine a whole neighborhood doing that, a whole town, a whole city, a whole state. It would do severe economical damage, and possibly even crash housing prices.
Especially if paired with weaponizing local homeless populations by encouraging them to take residence in the various empty homes we have here in the U.S.(which last I think I heard was like 22 empty homes for every homeless person).
Now get people to actually do it. I'll gladly do it but I don't think my neighbors would. not because they are on the side of evil, but because they can't afford a day without money. (At least that's what they think, the reality though might be different)