this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 150 points 1 week ago (14 children)

These "one day no purchase" things don't work. It takes sustained effort to "vote with your wallet".

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (12 children)
[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

lol a general strike. pure fantasy. You're gonna need about 5000% more class consciousness in the US before you can even think about it.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

A general strike would be amazing, but it's not realistic. Even just having say 25% of workers out for a few days puts strain on the system. Same with limiting spending. If even 25% of the country spends only on essentials, then that'll translate to a couple percentage points of loss to major corporations (not all of course, but some major ones).

It's not about a silver bullet, it's about inflicting enough paper cuts that it starts to hurt. No one thing will be 100% effective.

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