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In a way you seem to understand what I put across. But really the critical hit is to do nothing. And I mean nothing for a day a week etc. In the US there are “essential” workers. Take the railway protest that resulted in a presidential executive order to force them back to work because 1.8B money was lost. The only way these groups understand is when people don’t show up for work.

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UnequalExchange@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
…What are you talking about?

ALL forms of protest are performed simultaneously to bring about change. You cant choose only one form and then just only do that, humans are complex. It is expected that if most workers dont show up for work that they are during those expected working hours hunting down billionaires amd their bribed mercenary pigs. Meanwhile other workers who are too old, too young, too weak, or too ill to violently protest dont do anything except help their communities where they can, and ONLY their communities.

If everyome chose to do a sit-in protest then barely anything would change cause without essential workers like farmers, electricians, infrastructure maintenance , and warer treatment scientists , etc numerous peoole would starve or thirst to death ( well until the average person decides to be farmers, electricians, infrastructure maintenance, and water treatment specialists themselves) and the bourgeoisie are perefectly Ok with billions of people starving to death if it means they arent violently resisted and get to keep most of the amenities that they have stolen from their workers and they use to make them happy. Only using sit-ins will lead to inertia , NOTHING will get better or worse and youre underestimating the resilience of the bourgeoisie if you tjink they are not OK with this setup. As lomg as they get to stay in power and keep their bribed piggies, their amenities, their toys, their slaves, and their properties why would they care if billions of people starve to death? They dont give a fuck about that any of us so obviously they would care very little if there were significantly less of us. They would put on some 24/7 news stories about ‘inevitable population collapse cause people dont want to work for us anymore . Wont you think of the poor poor widdle billionaire slave mastahs! 🥺’ …but… thats all that theyll do…

Do you see substantial permanent chamges coming in a scenario like this ? The only time this scenario leads to substantial change is when the bribed piggies are the ones doing the sit-ins . I cant eben think of a single scenario where ALL the bodyguard piggies of a rich fuck decided to not defend them even during a national protest . These bodyguards are mostly there for a paycheque , if these bodyguard piggies are paid enough of a salary they will kill their entire family rather than join in a sit-in that will help them too… So its not happening.

Violent resistance is just one of the tools in the kit but it is a mandatory tool ij the kit because it accelerates the need for a mandatory response from the bourgeoisie to the demands of the workers and honeslty its the only thing Ive ever seen that has ever been shown to accelerate the imprisonment and liquidation of the bourgeoisie. Sit-ins are yet another one of the tools in the kit for people who cant violently resist for one reason or another.

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- myyass@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You kind of contradicted yourself. PMCs will just put you down and quite a few will enjoy it, the money is a bonus. I know some.
  
  I don’t think you understand how the US works.
  
  The only thing a billionaire cares about is money.
  
  Why do you think they have Yachts? lol
  
  They will sit, have some wine, and watch it all boil over while laughing at you destroying your community and then buy the remains.
  
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