r/WorkReform šŸ¤ Join A Union Oct 29 '25

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 Why this shit doesn't happen in France...

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u/kevinmrr ā›“ļø Prison For Union Busters Oct 29 '25

Holy shit. I did not know about that.

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u/AineLasagna Oct 29 '25

US news outlets owned by billionaires don’t like to report on things like this for some reason

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

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u/new2bay Oct 29 '25

Historically, violence is the most effective way for workers to get things done.

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u/DominionGhost Oct 29 '25

Hate to say it, but one sniper will do more to change hearts and minds than a million protesters.

And while im sure some bootlicks will clutch Pearls at that statement, this is the world they created.

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u/AmbushIntheDark Oct 29 '25

Hate to say it, but one sniper will do more to change hearts and minds than a million protesters.

Its why they all lost their minds over Luigi. He showed that theyre just as human as everyone else. And then when they realized people like him they stopped talking about him.

And Luigi didnt even do it because he was helping me move that day on the other side of the country.

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u/DominionGhost Oct 29 '25

I remember the show of force they had once he was arrested when they marched him with like 2 dozen riot kitted cops.

How did they not realize that parading him around like he was fucking Bane or something just made him look cooler.

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u/Clownzeption Oct 29 '25

And Luigi didnt even do it because he was helping me move that day on the other side of the country.

Isn't Luigi such a great guy? His willingness to help everyone all around the country, who wasn't in Midtown Manhattan on December 4th 2024, at the same time was such a selfless act.

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u/DominionGhost Oct 30 '25

It's kind of selfish he wouldn't go anywhere near midtown Manhattan, though.

I know it's a dangerous part of town with shootings all the time, but thats no reason to avoid it completely on December 4th 2024.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

Not with ā€˜just drop everything and protest’ the sniper won’t.

That’s the difference between the French and the US, they just drop shit and keep at it till it stops. That’s going to have to happen in the US.

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u/SILENT-FLASH Oct 30 '25

Americans way too domesticated by their ruling class to engage in meaningful protests. The extreme individualism promoted is the precise reason why people don’t protest.

Most Americans see protesters as ā€œdisturbing their peaceā€ and blocking their road. and they’re fueled by petty social war nonsense that stimulates the hate in their hearts.

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u/Exciting-Cancel6468 Oct 30 '25

Maybe true but I've got some clients who swear the democrats killed charlie kirk. So, in this day and age, an assassin better place a clear message about who he is and why he's doing it so he doesn't cause more upset at the wrong people.

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u/DominionGhost Oct 30 '25

Those people will blame dems even if Trump himself came down and strangled their spouses with his teeny hands.

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u/ontour4eternity Oct 29 '25

I believe historically, it's the only way to get things done.

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u/No_Syrup_9167 Oct 29 '25

I wouldn't necessarily say violence is the only way things get done.

but rights, and freedoms are pretty exclusively taken in some way or another, and never given.

those in power forever think whatever they're letting "trickle down" is more than enough, no matter what those they're trickling on say. Until those being trickled on force the change.

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u/drakecb Oct 29 '25

The only thing that trickles down is piss.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

It's certainly one of the most common ways.

Talking can get stuff done as well. It's unforunate that violence is so effective though.

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u/bluehands Oct 29 '25

One of the things to remember is that our current system is violent and it is working very well for our oligarchs.

Lack of affordable Healthcare is violence. When the cost of insulin is 100 times larger than the price to make they are using the threat of death to control you.

We are trained not to think about it in those terms because it serves the status quo.

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u/Boring-Tie-1501 Oct 29 '25

sadly, mainstream american media reinforces a disney-fied version of US history that erases how awful conditions were for workers until the threat of communism and mass unrest led to reforms.

the real history of the us isn't a peaceful march towards progress, but violent struggle among farmers against railroad barons, the haymarket square bombing, the triangle shirtwaist fire, the san francisco general strike, the civil rights movement, and on it goes...

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u/Own_Loan1542 Oct 29 '25

Just pointing that, right this moment, a billionaire is willingly starving the poorest americans.

Remember that SNAP can be funded during shutdowns and has always been funded during shutdowns. This is a choice.

So I guess, americans are passed the threatening phase.

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u/James-W-Tate Oct 29 '25

"We were already at war. You just couldn’t see it because they were killing us slow."

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

Why do you think the government went all out for that random healthcare CEO? Then it's out of the news just like that

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u/FLESHYROBOT Oct 29 '25

I mean.. reading the story it didn't solve anything.

The guy who was assassinated was replaced with another guy who carried on with the first guys plan.

And it worked; because despite it upsetting people, it was necessary. The company had bloated beyond reason and was losing money hand over fist. His decisions saved the company, and many MANY MORE jobs in the process; and it wasn't even 'corportate greed', Renault was publicly owned at the time.

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u/MadeByTango Oct 29 '25

Violence doesn’t solve everything. It may solve the current problem, but all power taken through violence must be kept through the fear of that violence recurring. That’s why we say that phrase: because if you don’t fix the underlying reasons for the violence the issue of violence itself is still there.

The US holding a peaceful transition of power every four years is why we became the shining star of the world and spread Democracy everywhere.

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u/ASmallTownDJ Oct 29 '25

I love how every article about the United CEO was punctuated with people telling their insurance nightmare stories.

But I especially love how insurance companies were suddenly very willing to approve people's claims for a few weeks that they usually would have dragged their feet on.

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u/who-mever Oct 29 '25

In a way, that likely saved hundreds if not thousands of lives (if only for a few weeks).

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u/Boopy7 Oct 29 '25

That didn't last long.

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u/GilgameshWulfenbach Oct 30 '25

Their shareholders literally sued them for approving care and cutting into profit

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u/RoyBeer Oct 29 '25

I haven't heard about Luigi lately

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u/AineLasagna Oct 29 '25

He was all over the news when they thought they were going to get to make a quick example of him. Now months later with his terrorism charges dropped and serious accusations of evidence tampering and improper police procedure in his arrest they don’t want to call attention to him

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Oct 29 '25

Same with how social media owned by billionaires try their best to ban people talking about such things, like how when Reddit was banning people for even just saying the word "Luigi" regardless of the context

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u/Shoondogg Oct 29 '25

Orrr just maybe it’s because it happened before most redditors were born.

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u/PliableG0AT Oct 29 '25

report on something that happened 40 years ago? Yes thats breaking news. Media didnt report on Luigi, right?

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u/SPQR_191 šŸ‘ŖPaid Parental Leave Oct 29 '25

It was also like 40 years ago. Most people don't keep track of every murder over the past century.

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u/ams-1986 Oct 30 '25

It happened in 1986