The only skills required to build wealth are a talent for manipulating people - especially at scale - and a willingness to exploit them to steal the value they create.
That describes your company's investors, founders, and executives (unless you are an equal owner in a radical coop with no non-ownership employees).
It also describes political and religious leaders. And pretty much all concepts of "leadership" in western civilization.
Why are you OK with that?
You actually believe there will be a meaningful presidential election in 2028!?! You are quite the optimist, aren't you? I envy your naïveté. You must sleep well at night. We realists toss and turn. America has fallen. The so-called land of the free is now occupied territory. I'm 76 years old. I saw it happen. It was never so great here, but it was better than this. At least we got to choose *some* of our oppressors. That's over. It's sad, but it is what it is, and that's how it's going to continue to be, unless we do something drastic. I suggest a #GeneralStrike, at least for a start. Then let's see where that leads us.
"If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.' --Big Bill Haywood
#LittleMarco now targeting to aggressively revoke the visas of #internatonalstudents from China over some paranoid bullshit . See #DemocracyNow Headlines 6.40 min mark, Thurs. 29 May 2025
People in the USA: #MassMobilisation, #GeneralStrike, #Impeachment, citizen's arrsts of MAGA politicians if you see them in public...SOMETHING!
THIS HAS GOT TO STOP! For your sakes and the rest of us around the world.
That's great news. But nothing is going to stop him unless his court jesters in Congress get a backbone.
We need a #GeneralStrike
Today in Labor History May 26, 1824: Women and girls led the first recorded factory strike in US history. 102 women and girls walked off the job at Slater Mill, in Pawtucket, and picketed their factory.
Two days prior, the owners had increased working hours by an hour per day with no additional pay. Additionally, they slashed the pay of power-loom weavers by 25%. Those affected were all women and girls aged 15 to 30. According to the bosses, the girls had already been earning “extravagant wages.”
The owners were caught off guard. They were not expecting a protest. Indeed, no U.S. factories had ever experienced a strike. Perhaps even more shocking, other workers and community members joined them in solidarity. They blockaded the mills and hurled rocks at the mansions of the owners. On the final day of the week-long strike, workers set one of the mills on fire. The next day, the owners agreed to negotiate and agreed on a compromise.
@Wileymiller @bicmay @GottaLaff
Sure, they can do both. But I mostly want them to do the one thing they uniquely have authority to do.
There's literally millions of others who can organize the street-level protests and #GeneralStrike that are needed.
Nicholas Kristoff had a good piece on how to undermine an autocrat. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion/authoritarianism-democracy-protest.html
We need to be swift. We need to respond in some way to the House's vote last week to strip Medicaid and enact an awful budget plan. We need to act immediately, and taking to the streets is not our forte.
Let's stage a sick-in on Tuesday. Stay home for a four day weekend by not returning to work on Tuesday. Let the government know we are not accepting this.
@DoNotPunchDown we definitely need a general strike. Sooner the better.
#GeneralStrike
Oh, I'm not ready to give up. Resistance is essential, because every dictator falls eventually.
But I also believe the coup is over and Trump won. The dictatorship is here, now. Between SCOTUS immunity and pardons, I don't believe these weasels will ever face justice. So, I'm not going to waste my hope on that.
My hope is for resistance, ultimately a #GeneralStrike that breaks the will of the oligarchs.
"The Ethics of Vigilante Counter-Tërrörism" - philosofree"
#anarchism #anarchist #anarchopunk #antifascist #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #anarchocomunism #antifascista #antifascism #antifa #AbolishTheMonarchy #abolishthestate #protest #never51 #freeluigi #luigimangione #protest #generalstrike #activism #classwar #50501 #50501movement #50501protests
The Big Beautiful Budget Bill will hurt a lot of us. But will it speed up progress toward a #GeneralStrike? I am not being flippant about ignoring the disproportionate pain this bill, and a general strike, will cause. But it is more and more clear that this is the only way we can change things.
IIRC, a few months back, the French government threatened—not *did*, mind you, but just *threatened*—to raise the retirement age a couple years..and damn near the entire country rose up in a #GeneralStrike until the government relented.
I wonder how long it'll take before we get how all this works...?
We are well overdue for a #generalstrike
"Today in Labor History May 15, 1919: Workers in Winnipeg, Canada, initiated a huge general strike..."
Today in Labor History May 15, 1921: Pat Sullivan released the radical animated Felix the Cat cartoon, "Felix Revolts," in which Felix leads the cats in a General Strike against the humans, letting the rats run wild.
Today in Labor History May 15, 1919: Workers in Winnipeg, Canada, initiated a huge general strike involving 30,000 workers. The strike lasted until June 26th, when the Winnipeg Labor Council declared the strike over. During the strike, the Mounted Police tried repeatedly to violently suppress the workers. The workers called for a six-hour workday and a five-day work week. During the strike, virtually the entire workforce halted work. Even the local cops voted for the strike. However, the strike committee asked the cops and utility workers to stay on the job to help keep basic services functioning. They set up a huge public kitchen which served food to hundreds of people each day. The Winnipeg “Free Press” called the strikers bohunks, aliens and anarchists. The called in the Royal Mounted Police and arrested dozens of people, charging some with seditious conspiracy. On Bloody Saturday, June 21, the Mounties fired into the crowd, killing one and wounding thirty others. In May and June, General Strikes broke out in 30 other Canadian cities.
Remember the conditions for peace:
Everyone in your reach is well fed, well loved, and well rested according to their cultural expectations.
This is completely in our reach.
But only if we turn away from the perverts who would see us at each others' throats, who tell us we are naturally violent and fearful when few of us actually fit that description.
Want to fight fear?
Build trust.
Stop competing.
Start cooperating.
Leave those assholes behind.
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Jamez Re!nert
