The way I look at it, things have to get better. Because if they don’t then we will destroy ourselves. Barbarism until socialism.

And Blinken will find some excuse to keep pushing arms despite them crossing the line

Nationalizing energy infrastructure

Give people the basic dignity of existence, even when you’re pissed at them.

That just means the groundwork of building a general strike will require building class consciousness, as well as building a support network for vulnerable people.

Wow things sure changed about Android roms! I still remember how difficult it was to try to simply install a rom through Knox

That seals the deal for me on rooting my pixel. I’ve been hesitant about rooting ever since I bricked an extra galaxy s3 and nearly bricked my (main device) Verizon galaxy s5

I think that’s just the beauty of communications technology. We’ll be trying to reach far more people, but imo (based on the Minneapolis general strike) it will be approximately the same amount of effort

I’m not saying that she didn’t have any liberal centrist ideas like what you listed, but that doesn’t mean she was progressive either. A lot of the policy ideas that were actually good were once on the Republican platform before Reagan.

Don’t forget about how popular Bernie was in 2016 before he was forcibly removed from the democratic nomination by the party establishment or how popular Tlaib, AOC, and Omar have been. Don’t forget about how down-ballot races in this cycle, while brutal to Democrats, didn’t push out many progressives. Progressivism is far more popular than the democratic party is willing to admit or fight on, because the party is owned and controlled by the same class currently oppressing us; the billionaires. If a candidate like Bernie presents a real path, they will force the person out. It’s not strictly an issue with the Overton window.

Here’s the thing about the choice facing people in the election: it doesn’t matter anymore as a matter of the current political reality, because Harris gambled hard on the “good cop, bad cop” aspect of “he’s worse” and lost hard. That statement is 110% true, but it’s horribly ineffective as we saw in 2016 and again in this election. Islamophobia will absolutely increase, and Trump will fund the genocide until all of Palestine is settled by colonists. But once again, don’t forget about how successful Tlaib was in comparison to Harris. We no longer have the opportunity to find out if it would or wouldn’t have affected the campaign, but the indication is there that at least 1 swing state would have gone to Harris with an anti-genocide stance.

I will contact you and OP to set up our first committee meeting!

I’ll need a committee, friend. I was once where you were too, your passion is exactly what an organizing committee needs!

Yes, precisely. That’s what all the planning is needed for.

I’m not saying this out of ignorance. I’m a professional organizer. I’m telling you that a strike without planning is like jumping into the deep end without learning to swim. The strike will fail if things aren’t prepared first.

ETA: all said, if you want to start organizing this strike I will help. I absolutely agree, a strike is really the only tool left in our “peaceful protest” toolbox.

A general strike will take a lot of planning. I’d estimate that an intense organizing campaign over the span of a year could make it happen, if all the organizers are willing to set aside most of their personal life for that time. Add an additional year if the organizing committee cannot make that commitment. If we start the planning now, it could grind the Trump economy to a total halt in q4 2026, peak profit for most companies.

That’s because fascism has never and will never be beaten at the ballot box.

Harris ran a perfect campaign. If she was running as a (pre-Trump) republican. However, we know that:

1. She isn’t a Republican
2. She banked on pulling in republican voters, instead of rallying her base
3. Republicans will almost always vote for the R instead of policy
4. She backed off of every single progressive idea she started with
5. She trotted out establishment Democrats to lecture the electorate instead of inspire them
6. Tlaib pulled twice the numbers as Harris as the only anti-genocide Palestinian in Congress

It’s Harris and the Democrats. Should people have voted? Yes. Is it understandable why people didn’t want to vote for the person telling them that she’ll be a good republican and support a genocide? Also yes.

You’re allowed to post what you find. The most effective method for cutting through the mis-/dis-info is to both respond directly with evidence, and then talk past it as a cool thing you just learned in a new post

The key phrase for primary sources is “trust, but verify”. That means listening to the primary source, and then do the legwork yourself to verify. Verify doesn’t mean asking the primary source for a source, it means figuring it out for yourself. A claim like “they’re eating the pets” gets readily debunked as soon as you start looking for evidence.

Siphoning 2% of the sun’s radiation sounds easy until you think about how much fucking energy that is. If we back it off to like 1% we can catapult ourselves onto the kardashev scale. #10 would still be at play, and it would be even more disastrous than before!

But infinite recursion hurts my tummy