Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done

• kromem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Neither. The army joins the strike.

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• PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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