• RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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    Labor day is a whole cloth creation made up by American Capitalists to separate the labor struggle in America from the labor struggle everywhere else. An effort to stymie solidarity between American workers and workers around the world.

    We have Labor Day. The rest of the world has International Workers Day or May Day as it’s sometimes called. May Day is May 1st.

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      What’s even more wild is that May Day was chosen to commerate the Haymarket Massacre in America after Americans had a real General Strike in 1886 and were executed, beaten, and jailed for it by the capitalist class.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day#Origin

      Important to note, Shawn Fain of the UAW is organizing a General Strike on May Day of 2028. Start saving now, prepare, and be ready to participate and support your neighbors, your colleagues, and your self.

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          Those that can save, should, so that they can help their neighbors and colleagues who can’t.

          We are only powerful if we work together, and that means those that can save excess money, should, and also be bold enough to offer support, and those that can’t should prepare in other ways like organizing and promoting, and be bold enough to seek support when they need it.

          We win this together, not individually.

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            Sorry, not trying to put you down. Thats not at all what I want. I just see it a different way. Rather than focusing on the self we need to focus on the group. Saving so you’ll be able to wait it sounds OK but what would be better is building the trust or just trusting that we won’t stop striking until all our needs our met. That includes the damages caused by the strike.

            Stirke tomorrow and trust that we are all going to have each other’s backs, so if you need food that food will be provided. If your landlord is threatening to evict the town will show up to the court house and protest until all debt related to the strike is forgiven.

            Unless we are using that 4 years to get this message across nothing will be done.

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              I think we’re saying the same thing.

              We can’t go into the 2028 general strike thinking about self preservation - we can’t go into the 2028 general strike unprepared.

              We have less than 4 years to lay the ground work for a success that cannot be defeated by the capitalist class.

              In my mind, that means all the above:

              • Voting allied people into federal, state, and local governments who won’t massacre us this time, including sheriffs and mayors and governors and judges

              • Gathering people together to understand each other and build rapport and trust

              • Building the list of goals and demands so we have a definition of success that can be capitulated

              • Organizing support networks to ensure we don’t starve or get evicted and etc, while on strike

              The capitalist class will have an intelligence operation, they will know if they can simply wait us out or exploit weaknesses - if we prepare right, they will know that their best option is to give into our demands. The more prepared and united we are, the faster they’ll surrender.

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      It drives me crazy that it has somehow become a patriotic flag-waving holiday

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    What’s not in this picture: EVERY corporate media organization standing behind Mr.Burns furiously writing “no one wants to work anymore, everyone is too lazy. Here’s what the ABigFuckYou CEO has to say” stories that keep at least half that croud voting against our interests.

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    Why do CEOs make so much money when they are the least talented and do the least work? No CEO should make more than $80,000 a year and zero bonus unless they actually pull their weight.

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      ThEy TaKe RiSkS! ThE cOmPaNiEs FuTuRe Is In ThEiR hAnDs! StReSs!

      (Completely ignores all the failures, golden parachutes, and immediate layoffs from their incompetence.)

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    Buh buh regulation on American, patriotic and God fearing big billionaire businesses is kammunisummm

    Their freedom to fuck me over is their right gosh darnit. Plus faux news said that if I give them free reign they’ll help muh economy and their money will trickle down to me eventually… And then I’ll be a billionaire just like them!

    /S

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      Well, when you have to be “worth” a million dollars just to own a home… yeah soon most homeowners WILL be “millionaires”.

      Doesn’t matter much when we have hundred-billionaires.