That's when it was under Chinese ownership, remember they had to sell the US Tiktok to a Yankee company
Riverside
joined 3 months ago
Is there no union or organization locally that you can ask? Protest isn't an individual action, it's a social organized action, so you ideally should get involved with local orgs or your work's union for this
Don't you have a student's union or representative? Get informed locally on your rights and possibilities.
I'm also in the EU, and I'd much rather get some posts calling for grassroots political action than the constant "elon said something Nazi again".
Organizations like the PSL do have lists of demands and are actively building a movement around this to gain momentum. You should check them out :)
How does this affect anything?
It's a momentum thing. one general strike won't change the world, it's the start of a much larger movement to get people to organize in socialist organizations like the PSL (remember socialism has always been fascism's greatest enemy) and in unions. A one-day general strike is not a "perfect is the enemy of good" logic, it's simply materially impossible to get everyone to rally in one week, or one month, or likely one year. It's just a start and a show of strength.
There are such thing as medical personnel strikes. Typically, public sectors organize so-called "minimum services", so they leave a minimum of people to stay in the hospitals / trains / buses for obvious reasons, and the rest go out to protest. A day with fewer nurses and doctors may be bad, but fascism is lethal too.
There was hope to change the system until they started killing white people, suddenly reform is out of the question. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you reached that conclusion, but some people did decades ago already, and it's good to follow the advice of those who got to the right conclusion before you
George Floyd was famously a movement for Black Lives Matter, and there was no suggestion of general strike
Reflecting on past mistakes isn't necessarily demoralizing, realizing that this isnt a new thing is good for future analysis. Hopefully everyone will come out too when the following George Floyd gets inevitably murdered
I commend your appreciation of the field as a science, but you should also acknowledge that 80% of what's currently taught in the academia about economics is just wrong. Supply and demand (unfalsifiable and shitty predictive capabilities compared to the falsifiable and empirically proven labour theory of value) is just one example in the long list of econ-101 bullshit.
Regardless, as an appreciator of economics, have you checked out econophysics? The study of economics as a thermodynamical system. It's wonderful, with predictive capabilities on for example salary distributions in capitalist economies, Paul Cockshott has a book and a few introductory videos on his YouTube channel
Plenty of delicious struggle meals if you get creative, half of "popular" cuisine stems from them. Spanish cocido and tortilla de patata are a few examples of well-loved affordable struggle meals.