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Showing Original Post only (View all)It's time for a general strike. [View all]
These corporate assholes and their flying monkeys in Congress need to understand we are done being their pawns.
We cant have dental or vision insurance when we get old because rich people will have to pay taxes. Do they even hear themselves? I really need to get off this ride now. Im in another universe.
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I know. People love to say "general strike" but no one wants to organize for one.
WhiskeyGrinder
Oct 2021
#12
I don't know any Democrats who think like that, thank you very much. Not sure what region you...
Hekate
Oct 2021
#22
Working class people should have demanded we save as many lives possible without their losing their
brewens
Oct 2021
#4
If I had a nickel for every time I saw someone on the Internet call for a general strike...
Dial H For Hero
Oct 2021
#5
If I devoted every waking moment of my life to organizing a general strike,
Dial H For Hero
Oct 2021
#7
Except for essential services, or that backfires completely, making things worse?
Brainfodder
Oct 2021
#8
Far too many people in this country, even if poor or working class,
PoindexterOglethorpe
Oct 2021
#9
The American people haven't been screwed hard enough yet. Dems have kept saving them from the GOP.
hadEnuf
Oct 2021
#25
Excellent idea. Tired of being on a greased rope. It is unsustainable. American Dream is gone.
Evolve Dammit
Oct 2021
#18
I started doing this in the pandemic because for some products it was all we could get.
onecaliberal
Oct 2021
#21
The anti-vax covid walkouts are the closest thing we'll have to a general strike
mathematic
Oct 2021
#34