Consumers across Europe furious over President Donald Trump’s policies are boycotting U.S. goods. Among the most passionate are Danes, seeking a way to protest Trump's threat to seize the Danish territory of Greenland.
Geographically, you’re not asking a country to do a general strike.
You’re asking 50 different countries, each with its own culture, filled with a majority population so poor it cannot miss a day of work without risking raising its debt profile.
I’d love it if we could, but I just don’t think it’s possible.
Best we could possibly do is maybe blow the rails, the US is too big and if only one city were to do a general strike it’d mean nothing. Also I’m pretty sure said city would get glassed especially right now.
Our neighbors would drive by and hurl excrement at us. It works in my town, but half the population is a liberal university. Just one town of many, though.
We’ve had protests like this in the past which failed miserably. Look up “occupy wall street”. Americans don’t like protesting that ends up disrupting the economic machine. We protest by disrupting the political process. It actually can work in our favor this time since trump and his cronies are the ones disrupting the economic machine. We just need other countries to keep up the pressure economically while we put political pressure on the current administration.
Will do.
But could you all please like do a general strike, or lock down cities by protesting this shit?
There are general strikes happening all over the US this Saturday!
Edit for grammer :)
In that case, you’ve re-earned my respect (some of you).
Geographically, you’re not asking a country to do a general strike.
You’re asking 50 different countries, each with its own culture, filled with a majority population so poor it cannot miss a day of work without risking raising its debt profile.
I’d love it if we could, but I just don’t think it’s possible.
I get you’re economically shackled already, but I just don’t believe the ‘too big/diverse to strike’-argument.
It just needs to start somewhere. And it probably evetually will now your president really fucked us all over.
So better not buy US made items not vital for survival. Leave some US made product on the shelves and lower your debt.
It does not work like that in America. We are not united but divided.
I’m not asking for all of you. Just the ones that doesn’t want this to happen.
Best we could possibly do is maybe blow the rails, the US is too big and if only one city were to do a general strike it’d mean nothing. Also I’m pretty sure said city would get glassed especially right now.
Our neighbors would drive by and hurl excrement at us. It works in my town, but half the population is a liberal university. Just one town of many, though.
And in my rural shit hole town…I would be the only one lol
We’ve had protests like this in the past which failed miserably. Look up “occupy wall street”. Americans don’t like protesting that ends up disrupting the economic machine. We protest by disrupting the political process. It actually can work in our favor this time since trump and his cronies are the ones disrupting the economic machine. We just need other countries to keep up the pressure economically while we put political pressure on the current administration.
I wouldn’t not protest to save the economy now, since that is out the window.
I don’t know if occupy accomplished anything, but the George Floyd protests were massive.
Americans can protest. I just don’t get the late stage capitalism stockholm syndrome.
Low cost of goods is what keeps the peasants in line. It’s kind of our identity at this point.