Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done

muzzle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s also the chance that they’d just hunker down and outlast it. Giving them a definite timeline gives them a light at the end of the tunnel. After 10 days, it’s just business as usual again. A general strike without a posted timeline would lead to capitulation within only a few days. It wouldn’t even take all 10 days.

  Kidney stones don’t suck just because they hurt. They suck because you don’t know how long they’re going to hurt for. They hurt until you have passed the stone, and you have no idea how long that will take. The pain is analogous to a muscle cramp. People can grit their teeth and bear it if they know it’s just a muscle cramp and will end soon. But when it has been six days and you don’t have any idea how much longer it will last, it makes you desperate.

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• CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So what, they gonna come to my house and make me go to work?

  Or do they show up at my work and do my job?

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  • kromem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, they declare your not working illegal, and imprison you into a forced labor camp. Where if you don’t work you are tortured. And probably where you work until the terrible conditions kill you.

    Take a look at Musk’s Twitter feed to see exactly where this is going.

    “This is the way” on a post about how labor for prisoners is a good thing.

    “You committed a crime” for people opposing DOGE.

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  • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Neither. The army joins the strike.

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  • PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So what, they gonna come to my house and make me go to work?

    Arrest you and toss you in a cell, more likely.

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    • mriguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ok, so they do that to everybody, and now the strike can’t end. This helps them how?

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      • PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ok, so they do that to everybody, and now the strike can’t end. This helps them how?

        1. They won’t have to do it to everyone. Just enough people to make examples and frighten people into going back to work.

        2. If they do have to do it to entire workforce-sized populations, we get a cozy GULAG style labor system.

        “They can’t arrest all of us” only works if there’s means of resistance other than passive. In liberal democracies, that’s typically protests, elections, and legal avenues; in less charming regimes, it comes down to internal dissent in the security apparatus or outright force from the oppressed. If you lack those means of negotiation, or the credible threat thereof, then they literally can arrest all of you, and will, given half a chance.

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