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I mentioned Europe because places like France have their protest game on point. (grills mounted on tram tracks for making burgers while protesting? Genius.)
And yes, our labor rights (not much anymore as they are) were paid in blood. I remember learning about the Triangle Waistcoat Factory as a kiddo.
But I take issue with saying "slight discomfort" when referring to keeping my family housed and fed. Most Americans are living not just paycheck to paycheck but have zero significant savings to weather a medical emergency (or an open ended strike).
And the only alternative party to the current administration isn't offering options like, "if you all just wait it out for a few months, we can take back the House/Senate/Presidency, pass UBI, help you get your money and financial stability back... Oh and pad SCOTUS so some fucker in a red state doesn't sue to undo all this relief".
You have to understand. This shit is bleak. We are clawing on to the only thing we have because there is nobody coming to save us, and we cannot save ourselves.
Yeah the only action that could possibly have an impact at this point would be to resurrect the militias of old and start a good old county war. Not particularly viable in the current political and economic climate, also I'm not entirely sure where you attack to cause significant damage outside of maybe bridges on the interstate and highway systems, the rails, and maybe the electrical grid around industrial centers and AI data centers.
Saying that and doing that is also a massively different thing, back when the old militias were about they didn't really have in investigationn methods and also they could literally go to work with basically no reprisal after shooting up some deputy or whatnot.
Not a bad starter pack you got there.
Im an American-Scot Redneck, the theory behind how to cripple a government through unorthodox means may as well be genetic to me.
It’s not meant to be comfortable.
You’re not Netflix and chilling, you’re fighting for your country.
Why do we have to take special understanding for your country and your people? Why are you different to the rest of us?
Did I say comfortable?
I said keep my family house and fed. I'm already dodging parasite lettuce and massive food recalls, paying a sizable amount of my paychecks to rent and gas.
None of this shit is currently comfortable.
And you (or the original person I replied to) are saying, yeah, fuck your kids and your spouse and dog. Go throw yourself on the fire of REVOLUTION.
(Also, we had to cancel Netflix and most eveything else to actually afford to live, so that's fun.)
We're not different, but I don't see myself or other Americans telling the nebulous "you" to go throw yourself off the precipice for god and country.
In that case then, if it’s all that bad I have to ask what two more weeks of suffering, which is all it would take if enough did a shutdown, is going to add.
I’ll say this much, I would throw myself on it if it was that bad for me, because I’d have nothing to lose. I think Americans fail to understand that other countries had it better because they did that suffering and striking a while ago.
We all constantly hear how bad it is and how oppressed you are, well, what is there to lose? You’re saying it, not us, but you got no problem claiming we don’t get it or understand.
No one wants Americans to take violent paths but they are where they are because the easier options weren’t taken. That’s why there’s so much push from the outside for peaceful shutdowns. Yes, we know, you constantly remind us…jobs, kids.
There’s an excuse every time. Sorry, a reason, it must be remembered which nation that is and the filters applied.
The easier options work too, the Republicans prove that repeatedly. Or did. It might be gone now.
Don’t prove Churchill right again. The sooner it’s gotten out of the way, the easier it’ll be. It would have been easier if done earlier, though it’s got to be remembered this president was elected so there’s limited ways to get rid of him outside a vote or violence.
Shutting down the country (to paint a broad brush) to get enough influential people to act, Congress to act then enforce an impeachment seems to be one of those, looking from the outside.
I’ll add this; none of us outside and our governments, even if they wanted to, can help. We are having enough trouble with our own wingnuts and that in no small way has been driven by the problems with the US.