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Considering where things are going, isn't protecting your kids a reason to not show up to work and show up to protest? What will you say to them if they ask, "Did you do anything to fight back and protect us?" The saddest part is reading/hearing stuff like this, because one day "I have kids to protect" becomes your reasoning to march towards certain death in a battlefield, why wait till it gets to that point? Reminds me of what Aaron Bushnell said, "Many of us like to ask ourselves, what would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is, you're doing it. Right now.”
So let’s play this out you go to a protest instead of you job. Then you get fired from your job, so now you have no health insurance for yourself or your children. The job market is shit right now, since we just had an influx of former government employees, so good luck on finding a new job. Going to work is protecting your children. It’s how the hyper capitalistic society works. I hate it and want out so bad, but it just keeps getting worse. Most Americans retirement is in 401k which is a horrible idea basing your retirement income on the stock market. We are just fucked.
Sounds like something to protest about.
Sounds like something to protest about.
Sounds like something to protest about.
If you say so.
Sounds like something to protest about, if you want out bad enough.
Sounds like something to protest about.
How did workers get weekends?
You really think a protest is going to work? I wouldn’t be surprised if we read about the military shooting protesters in the near future. It almost happened in his first term
Ukraine, back then under Putin's rule, was shooting protesters in 2014. The people stood firm. A hundred people got shot, the other 42 million avoided slavery.
True, but it's a start. Will only get worse if you wait longer though, if you wanted prevent this reality you could've done more. Can't change that now, no use feeling guilty about it, can only decide what you do now for the future you want. That's why i'm begging you Americans to do more.
You're not begging. You're browbeating in a really sanctimonious way. Maybe you should listen to people's legitimate concerns and sympathize with them instead of telling them they are pieces of shit for not volunteering themselves enthusiastically to get shot for what is likely to be zero change. You're acting like people are stupid assholes for not wanting their families to be evicted. You're being a dick, and I am also certain you are lying about the extent of your own noble sacrifices.
You act like going out to protest means you're definitely going to get shot. That isn't true, stop making excuses.
People are protesting, my guy. Your original post scoffed at the idea that these protests could be effective. You called it "occupying a sidewalk" and were calling on us to just start blasting. Don't move the goalposts.
When did I say that? Please argue in good faith using reality.
And while they're out there protesting for weeks, months, years, how are they going to feed their kids and keep them from freezing? Being unable to provide shelter and basic necessities to your children is a good way to lose them...
Lemme guess, they should protest about that? I guess now that they have nothing left to lose...
Jfc, you really don't understand why someone might prioritize stability for their family over torching the lives of everyone they love? Try some empathy, man.
Perhaps after those week, months, years you might have the intelligence to realize it's not working and to try something else, or adapt, or work harder. Did you ever think of that?
They would be dead or in prison. Did you ever think of that?
So you're saying your democracy isn't worth the sacrifices that countless before you have made? And you're not up to that task? Not surprised.
Perhaps we should ask the Hong Kong citizens how to protest, they seem pretty successful, oh wait…
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/03/how-workers-won-the-weekend