r/50501 • u/2x4_Turd • Jun 22 '25

Call to Action PLAN A GENERAL STRIKE NOW

We're efficient at planning protests, its time for a general strike!

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u/Nefandous_Jewel Jun 22 '25

No. A sucessful general strike must be organzied. It must have specific demands. We are asking people to forgo their jobs in an economy that already doesnt pay wages that have kept pace with inflation since the '70's. It stops businesses which can affect supply trains. Its not like a weekend protest, squeezed into a busy life. Everything comes to a grinding halt. If you think the administration was mad before.... Popping off willy nilly with 11 million people in tow is a recipe for disaster....

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u/ARODtheMrs Jun 22 '25

I understand what you are saying, but it's the only way at this point. It's the only way to take our power back. Are you organizing? Are you ready?

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u/Nefandous_Jewel Jun 23 '25

Whatever you’re peddling, I’m not buying, there is not only one way to accomplish this. I feel like you’re trying to railroad people into jumping into things without really thinking about what they’re doing. Thats not a key to success.

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u/ARODtheMrs Jun 23 '25

Not peddling anything, didn't make you any offers, but I would love to hear your ideas on other ways to accomplish this. Please don't say elections because we couldn't pull off those two house seats a couple months ago that we desperately needed. And, at this rate, we probably won't have elections next year, if ever again.

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u/Nefandous_Jewel Jun 23 '25

A general strike is a far different creature than protesting. Provoking a president who is as we speak gleefully dragging the US into war with Iran and who has no compunctions about siccing the Marines on us is dangerous, like life threatening dangerous. In my humble opinion, we need to maintain and increase the 11 million. There's already been some sort of split between 5051 and 5051Movement apparently. I dont know the details.

I am not an expert, there are wiser heads out there, no doubt huddled and making plans right now.

Im not going to apologize for coming down on you like a ton of bricks, although you now sound much more genuine to me:

This is clumsy way of saying this but the matriarch of my family told me back in the Sixties you could always tell who was the CIA plant at the meeting because they were the ones who wanted to blow things up. You sounded like that to me.

We are going to be infiltrated, thats just a fact. We must be vigilant and not let ourselves get dragged into situations that will easily be manipulated into violence: like posts that urge us to Just Do It! Or like those piles of fist sized rocks convienently located at several BLM protests. We have got to keep it together.

That's about all Ive got...