Realistically how do you expect this to work? I didn't hear anything about it until today, and it's going to be real hard to get people to do a general strike en masse with such short notice especially without them being actual members of organizations. Are there even unions supporting this? I appreciate the energy but doing a shitty attempt at a general strike (on a Saturday no less, when many people aren't working to begin with) will just make the resistance movement look bad

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This could be effective if it was done twice a month

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This would be effective if we did a national strike for even a week. Not a single person goes into work. It would cause chaos worse than the covid lock downs. Im all for it. This is our best shot at avoiding violence...and i honestly dont want to see people die bcz of these fuck faces. I just want to see us treat eachother with decency, but even thats too much for people anymore.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

National strikes would be very powerful! Everyone should mention this frequently in casual conversation so it will be on people’s minds as an option as things continue to devolve.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Literally no. It only works if you stop consumerism, full stop. food and necessary gas are fine to buy. But if you stip buying most things the economy will slow. And they'll notice. But people don't know how to properly boycott. They want their cake and to eat it too.

About labor unions endorsing this, they will not want action this weak. If they're going to commit it will be a full commit, not some half hearted BS

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For a full week at least

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

We gotta figure out food and medicine, but IM on board. We need labor unions to jump in on this though. We have to make this much bigger than a lemmy post.

If 100 people do this, doesn't mean much.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

1 day?

And then what? Buy the stuff you didn't, the day after? This won't even register in a weekly report.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

A true patriot would join in this movement of their fellow American working class peers. Let's see some chaos!