I wouldn’t say they’re calling me a liar, and they’re not even wrong, it’s just that the employment environment in Europe that makes General Strikes successful is far different than in America. They generally can’t be fired for any reason at all. Unions are common, and powerful, even in lower level jobs like retail, and even the governments are worker friendly.
That’s the exact opposite where any worker can be fired literally on a whim. Your boss hates your socks that day? After 20 years of loyal work, you’re fired, get out. Seriously, that’s totally legal.
OTOH, Europeans don’t have a mechanism where they can literally shut down the government they hate. We do, and it works every time (if our elected representives have have a backbone).
What works over there, doesn’t work here, and vice-versa. Criticizing Americans for not doing a General Strike is just as dumb as criticizing Europeans for not doing a Government Shutdown. We’re going to use the tools that work in our specific Political-Economic Environments. Doesn’t that make sense?
Thanks. At the end of the day I’m on your side and want the same thing, which is not having fascists at the helm of the United States. If that goal is achieved in a different way than I (or Europeans) would have done, that’s okey.
Good luck and fortitude in your fight for democracy.
Thanks, we’ll be okay eventually. We were raised on fables about Revolution against the most powerful military in the world. We don’t tolerate tyranny in America. MAGA will never win. When it finally blows, it’s gonna blow BIG.
I wouldn’t say they’re calling me a liar, and they’re not even wrong, it’s just that the employment environment in Europe that makes General Strikes successful is far different than in America. They generally can’t be fired for any reason at all. Unions are common, and powerful, even in lower level jobs like retail, and even the governments are worker friendly.
That’s the exact opposite where any worker can be fired literally on a whim. Your boss hates your socks that day? After 20 years of loyal work, you’re fired, get out. Seriously, that’s totally legal.
OTOH, Europeans don’t have a mechanism where they can literally shut down the government they hate. We do, and it works every time (if our elected representives have have a backbone).
What works over there, doesn’t work here, and vice-versa. Criticizing Americans for not doing a General Strike is just as dumb as criticizing Europeans for not doing a Government Shutdown. We’re going to use the tools that work in our specific Political-Economic Environments. Doesn’t that make sense?
Thanks. At the end of the day I’m on your side and want the same thing, which is not having fascists at the helm of the United States. If that goal is achieved in a different way than I (or Europeans) would have done, that’s okey.
Good luck and fortitude in your fight for democracy.
Thanks, we’ll be okay eventually. We were raised on fables about Revolution against the most powerful military in the world. We don’t tolerate tyranny in America. MAGA will never win. When it finally blows, it’s gonna blow BIG.
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