That’s my take as well.
Unless this goes on with some critical infrastructure impacted for at least a few weeks, it’s utterly pointless.
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
if it’s not the start of a general strike idgaf. a single day of protests works about as well as blacking out a subreddit.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
General strikes take a pretty large mass. To build that, a very important step is making sure more people are aware of how many are committed to resistance.
It’s like being invited to a party, and the host says “Well, you’re one of the first ten people I’ve invited, but I’m encouraging others to share-” and you just reply “Nope, I’m not going unless there’s already a million people going.” Of course, in this case, the protest has been shared outside of just Lemmy, so don’t use local numbers as an indicator.
frezik@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Right; what do people expect, here? A “general strike” that someone calls at random won’t do much more than a few extra people calling in sick. It takes time to build solidarity to agree that we’re all going to do this. If we had that kind of solidarity, I don’t think we’d be in this position in the first place.