General Strike on October 15th

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My bio- mom worked at a union closed shop job.When they went on strike they got results.She was on the local news holding up her sign.But this was back on the seventies when unions seemed to have more power.
Maybe people cared more or they were better organized.

Back in the seventies, unions were more popular; if one union went on strike, every other union within the general area would either stage a 'sympathy' strike or at least honor the picket line (i.e., Teamsters would not make pick-ups or deliveries across picket lines).  When the UAW struck against GM in Lansing, even some of the public-school teachers from the adjacent counties would walk the line.  Nowadays, strikers would be lucky if passing drivers honked their horns and waved as they drove on by.

How can there be a next time with no first time?

Zilch. Zip. Nadda. Zero. Nichts.

The next time they announce something like this, obviously.  They need to do more than just set up a website and make an announcement, however; they need to plan, prepare, and drum up support.  Otherwise, it will just be another announcement of another non-event.

Consider for a moment that such a strike could cripple a countrys economy .
People supporting such actions , could easily be considered economic terrorists and bring the eye of the big brother upon them and any media campaigns that might occur as a result of such organizing.
The Political body Corporate could easily subvert these efforts .
Welcome to the 21st century .
Hopefully . There will be actual communication methods in place to be able to support such a General Strike . But this is merely theorizing .
Oopps did i actually submit this ......

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THere is A Much More Effective 'General Strike' Than What
Was Haphazardly Planned ACross Social Media For October 15;

YES, THE WAVE

THE RESIGNATION

WAVE THAT BEGAN EVEN
BEFORE COVID-19 AND IS
STILL CRESTING NOW as Folks

Additionally, Got Breaks During Shut-Downs
And the Such During the Pandemic for HUMAN INTROSPECTION

LIKE WHAT MAKES LIFE F IN EVEN WORTH LIVING.

MOVING, CONNECTING, CO-CREATING

Yes MCC, And The History Yes of

Loyalty to Jobs Like A Village that

Raises the Child Foraging Through
The Day Connecting Through Drum Beats
of Moonlit Campfire Dances Really Being Part

Of the Whole Human Picture; Yes Moving, Connecting,

Co-Creating; Inhaling Peace More, Exhaling Love More For All

HUMANITY AT ITS BEST; YES, WhERE THE VILLAGE RAISES THE CHILD MOST ALL TOGETHER!

IT'S A BRAVE NEW WORLD BABY; People Don't Usually Join Secure Jobs Now With Life Long Benefits
That Generate Life-Long Loyalty to A Job in Guaranteed Benefits, While Working And Retiring too...

Now We Have Obama Care; It's Portable, No Longer Part of the Golden Hand-Cuffs of One Job...

The Other More Secure Golden Hand-Cuff Jobs Have Been Privately Contracted Out...

Gig Jobs are the Name

of the Jobs of the Younger

Generations Just to Make Money

On The Fly; No Loyalty to 'The Village

of Foraging', Either Employee or

Employer Same

IN Both Directions...

And What About 'Soma' In this
"Brave World" Now; It's More than

Opiates; it is Behavioral Addictions Brightly

Lit Screens With All You Can Eat and Drink Porn
24/7, Particularly 'Indigenous' To Male Variety in Taste;

A Quick Highest Dopamine Hit For Every Screen Take Free...

And All the Other Freely Available Accessible Colors that Make

A 6 Inch Screen, A Virtual 72 Virgin's in Heaven on Earth And yes Again

All the Other Brightly

Lit Colors

of 'Dopamine

Stimulation Soma'

Free to Give And Share

Virtually As Avatars Machine

Bits and Bytes Humans Come to 'Almost Breathe'...

And this is Just A Simplified Version of All the Factors

That Makes it So Much Easier to Surf A Tidal Wave of Resignations...

Stay At Home With Your Affluent Baby-Boomer

Parents; Baby-Boomer Parents Retiring

Early; Do You Really Need

A New Car And Bigger

Home; Lord Knows

Just A Decision Of No to That
Precludes A Need for a Second Job...

A Socio-Economic System of Capitalism
Requires Both Workers and Consumers...

The System is Currently Failing As Is
In Many Ways; So Many Jobs Aren't Even

Close to What Humans Are Evolved to Do
Moving, Connecting, Co-Creating in Flesh and Blood Non-Avatar Way true...

Machines May Only Need Oil; Yet, Humans Break Down As Clearly Relating
'TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT'

OR EVEN JUST

DON'T SHOW UP

FOR WORK AFTER

THE THIRD WEEK AS

YOU ARE NOT VALUABLE

TO THEM AND THEY ARE NOT

VALUABLE TO THEM; Yet hey

it's Already A Ghosting

World Even For

FRiEnDS,

Lovers,

And Any
Real God ThiS Way too

Like Nature What Was the
Name of that Force Outside...

The World is Changing And

Capitalism is on Fire Again Burning the Whole Game Down...

Meanwhile, More Folks Are Doing What it Takes to Both Survive
And Stay
Human...

No
Surprise
Really Treat
Humans As Less
Than Human And You
Get Less Humans to Lend Their Services...

Meanwhile, Some Corporations Are Stepping
Up in Pay and Benefits to Employees As They

Understand

They Just
Can't Take

Any

Slave Labor Conditions
For Pay For Granted Any More....

The Other Businesses Will Fade
Away fade away... away... Turn of the Lights...

If You Can't Get More Ya Learn to Survive
And Thrive on Less

Whatever
Works

Does Work

For The Individual This Way most...
As It's No Longer Really Even A Society
As A Society Takes Care of Everyone Best...

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You asserted a hypothetical situation as evidence for a dystopian police-state.  This is fallacious reasoning.

am guessing this would relate to your level of experience with the police state . it has gone beyond
what was considered in the fifties and sixties a society of just and righteous / diligent people .
It seems that what once was , is not reality anymore . And denial from a armchair point of veiw .
And a private position of Security ...just doesnt support what many have seen and reported on .
This is not a speculative position . Just because it has not happened to you yet doesnt mean , it will not. Have seen people lose their homes, And have their lives destroyed and lost based on rumours
To this police state. But this hardly addresses all the issues that generated the BLM activities.
And mystery disappearances of protestors by . Hired mercenaries Reported on i n Portland Ore.
Have interacted with higher levels of law enforcement only to see these point of veiw reinforced.
Civil rights lawyers has refuse to be involved in any actions that might threaten their popularity
with local law enforcement , Cheif County Prosecuetors refusing to engage their minions . And
people whom have paid their salaries for years. Not being able to talk to them. Or allowed to engage them.

You post generalities that seem to have little or no basis in reality.  Would you care to cite some valid examples?

Insofar as being unfamiliar with a "Police State", I was in the military -- literally under martial law 24/7 -- and our current state of affairs here in the U.S.A. is nothing like that.

Have already cited examples in my post , But am not able to go into further details other than
what i offered . So you have me at a poor position to further validate . Some of the statements without going into more specific case numbers . Creating a breach of privacy for myself.
But some of the facts that have been written of above , were available from the local news in those areas. Much of what was written about Lawyers and Prosecutors are based in 1 st hand experiences.

Please do not make conjecture on what i have written .Or obfuscate , my meanings .
At no point did i suggest that we are literally under marshal law . Police state can mean a variety of methods of Law enforcement .. The most effective ones are ones that the average person is not aware of ... Surveillence State might have been a easier way for me to word this , but my experiences have shown to go far beyond that now . in Real life. Not to disregard your military experience or my own . Martial law experiences in the military are quite different that these i write about.
But these subtle situations have been used against civilians , With cooperation of the local media , these more specific situations have been squelched from normal news .
At least one case were a prosecuetors office victims advocate person was forced from her job there after 18 years for trying to make the prosecuetors office aware of some facts that they did not want made public . And Arrested her the next night " for making terrorist threats" and made a secret
" unspoken"plea,agreement for her to leave the state. If she kept her mouth closed . And they would not prosecute her . Obvious civil rights violation.
based on first hand experience . And i was made aware that this was not the only such plea agreement made by this prosecutors office . Involving the illegal activities by that office.

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