Friday is “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,” a general strike supported by Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders, Democratic lawmakers and community activists. The “ICE Out” day proponents are encouraging all Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping — suspensions of normal orders of business to protest the […]
Oh hey Americans actually trying to do something! Good job.
We do what we can because we must
I mean you gotta do way more than this. But its a kind of start. I didn’t realize it was a general strike for… like a day or ten days or whatever. Kind of defeats the purpose of a strike.
Do not underestimate our ability to seemingly do a lot while simultaneously doing nothing.
Like I doubt it will do anything. But it’s better than a peaceful protest once a month and telling people to vote harder.
Heres the reality though. A general strike will be hard to coordinate, and has to have major support, and has to assume that a lot of people can afford to not work, and are willing to suffer for it.
And the wealthy can and will outlast you anyway.
It’s a step in the right direction, but a more useful and respectable one is what happened to Jack Lang. And those leftists in Minnesota brandishing guns. That is the proper, reasonable, responsible action that needs to be taken. It is the only option left at this point, if you want to actually save your country.