cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24998458
Who the hell can afford to go one day without pay, let alone 10?
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Start saving now, start learning how to fix things, grow food, make do with less.
A whole lot of people may not have any choice about going without pay for awhile, much less one day, the time to start preparing is now. I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities, learn how to to grow food and repair things.
The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.
Start saving now
Saving what?
grow food
How do you do that in a small apartment?
make do with less.
You sound like you've never lived in poverty. Unfortunately, millions of Americans do.
Saving what?
Anything you can. Rice and beans.
How do you do that in a small apartment?
In small planters I guess.
You know shit about me Squid, I grew up dirt poor in the ozarks. Don't lecture me about poverty while you flee the country. Wtf are you gonna do when the SS comes knocking on your door? Buy a plane ticket? You're poking a lot of holes but I don't see any action plans from your safe haven in England, just a lot of flak for people with skin in the game.
Ya'll acting like you can discuss your way out of a camp are playing with your own lives (and those of your families). Maybe you don't have anything at risk, that's great disregard what I'm saying. But if you're a trans/queer/non-Christian "other" maybe it's a good time to look into protecting your and yours.
Or you can listen to the... idk, are they supposed solutions? And ignore what's happening in our country. Personally I'd recommend getting some protection before they decide you have a mental illness and aren't allowed to have one.
I didn't lecture you about anything, but if you grew up "dirt poor," like you claim you did, then I would think that you would understand that people in poverty do not have anything to save.
Also, the idea that you could feed yourself and your kids with what you grow in small planters in an apartment (before they kick you out for not paying rent because you lost your job due to being out protesting) is not how the universe works.
I assume you are now going to make the suggestion I saw someone make the other day and let their kids eat out of dumpsters.
Also, I am sorry, but this is fucking stupid:
Or you can listen to the… idk, are they supposed solutions? And ignore what’s happening in our country and get some protection before they decide you have a mental illness and aren’t allowed to have one.
You do not automatically come up with good solutions which are beyond criticism and people who criticize them aren't people who are just ignoring things.
Sorry, you're not a god.
My dirt poor aunt has a closet full of canned goods, she saves her excess.
Do you think Trump is a risk? You fled for that very reason right? Would you have suggested Jews disarm in the run up to the Holocaust? Not all of us have the resources to flee dude, despite your implication that I have some sort of wealth, which is rich coming from someone who legitimately was able to relocate.
You do not automatically come up with good solutions which are beyond criticism and people who criticize them aren’t people who are just ignoring things.
The only criticism I saw was "no that won't work!" from someone who's already ensured his safety. I'm all for sharing ideas if you have any Squid but maybe all you have to contribute is "no!" maybe you could lurk more and let the people facing the risk face it.
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Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them.
This is a pretty intense topic to get involved with.
I dithered a little bit about getting a firearm. I still do not have one. I know how to use them, in a cursory kind of way.
Part of why I've held back on getting one is this: Imagine playing a board game for the first time, and if you lose, you're going to die. Or sitting down at a poker table to play for the first time in your life. How well are you going to play? Are you probably going to win? Also, the game only lasts for fifteen seconds.
Having a gun sounds like not a bad idea for what's coming up in this country. Having a gun and no experience at all in the types of situations you might get yourself into, if you have a gun, sounds almost worse than just not having one. People freak out, they fuck up, they take the wrong decisions. It's what naturally happens when you're playing an adversarial game for the first time in your life. After a while, you learn the game, and you start making generally good decisions a lot more of the time. But the first time...
I'm not saying having a gun is a bad idea. There are days when I think I'm being stupid for not having one. But also, you need to know what you're doing, and if you don't have some kind of military or other professional training, you're not going to know what you're doing, and you can walk yourself into situations there's no good way out of if you don't know what you're doing.
A gun is going to be at least what - $500?
If I had $500 lying around, that’d be a down payment on an apartment in a place where they can’t fire you for being a tranny.
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Get ready for 2028. That is the year, right?
US laws offers enough protections for legal strikes that unions follow the law so they can't do solidarity strikes. UAW is aligning their contract renewals for 2028, so it can happen then. But also if they repeal the nlra there will be little incentive to not start doing solidarity strikes.
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Electoral politics doesn't get the job done, but failing to attend to electoral politics can sure as shit make the job harder.
The question of "Who are we negotiating with" is all-important in every scenario except "Complete and total unconditional victory".
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Yeah, with all those general strikes we've had they must be really easy to organize!
This is what bothers me so much about the constant calls for general strikes on social media. They’re almost never paired with serious organization (ex: where are the strike funds to support people who otherwise can’t afford to miss paychecks?)
Not to mention a large chunk of the public won't agree with the idea to begin with. Especially the top 20-30% of income earners.
Additionally, emergency/medical personnel not working would mean people are directly dying as a result of it, creating easy negative PR against the movement.
Asking 180+ million people to coordinate on anything is a farce, and for something like a general strike it is an absolute fantasy.
Have you noticed they’re always paired with messages encouraging voter apathy and disparticipation ?
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I'll do you all a favor and tag the people and voices you should not listen to. They want you to live in subjugation.
Edit: there are 350 million people in the USA. We do not need concensus.
Edit2: do not ask for your rights. Do not argue for your rights. Fight for your rights.
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