Ferrous
@Ferrous@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 3 weeks ago:
From the DSA instagram 6 days ago:
Why didn’t the “economic blackout” change anything?
Stocks rose Friday instead of falling, and there was no sign that the “economic boycott” that spread across social media had any impact whatsoever, other than maybe being a promotional tool for smaller businesses.
Why didn’t it work and what would work instead?
We don’t have power as “consumers”.
Working people are always going to need to buy things. And even if a large portion of workers stopped buying everyday goods from Target or Starbucks, we’d still need to pay rent, pay the mortgage, pay utilities, and ultimately depend on a larger supply chain. You can’t “opt-out” of capitalism.
Boycotts that work are focused on a clear target and have with a specific demand, and are built on long-term, deep organizing. But even then, as a tactic, a boycott isn’t going to be what brings the economy to a halt to stop the Trump agenda.
We have power as workers.
In January 2019, a 35 day shutdown of the federal government came to an end after the flight attendants union announced their intention to strike. Such a strike would have grounded a large percentage of air travel, which even if just for a short period of time would have had a devastating impact on the US economy.
If we want to hit the ruling class where it hurts we need to organize as workers, not as consumers. Our power is in collectively withholding our labor, not withholding our dollars (which we only have in the first place by selling our labor).
Strikes are organized, not mobilized.
Strikes don’t happen because someone made an Instagram post calling for it and then everyone thought it was a good idea.
Strikes are the result of long-term organizing that builds tightly structured organization through a series of escalating actions that show the level of support for the union, which if successful leave workers confident and the boss afraid.
A strike can’t work if only a minority of workers walk out either. Strikes require a supermajority of workers to be effective.
So what can you do?
Join an organization like DSA that is working to build the kind working class power necessary not just to beat back Trump’s attacks but to win a better world.
Join the labor movement. Organize at work, in your union if you have one, and get trained on the secrets of successful organizing through organizations like Labor Notes. Looking for a new job? Consider taking a job in a “strategic sector” like healthcare, education, or logistics.
Stop scrolling and start talking to your coworkers, your neighbors, friends, and family. The revolution will not be posted. Revolutions are made through organizing.
- Comment on Please answer. 3 weeks ago:
And on top of that, a pointless Twitter comment.
I swear, every meme nowadays is three levels of reaction deep.
- Comment on Sotomayor Says Presidents Are Not Monarchs and Must Obey Rulings 1 month ago:
Sotomayor: "pretty please Mr. Trump, follow our guidance :( "
This doesn’t mean jack shit. SCOTUS does not enforce policy - it interprets it.
So many stories of pundits saying “But but but… Trump cant do that 😡. That goes against established norms and precedent!”
News flash: he can, and he is, and he will. It’s as out of touch as someone saying “I think Mueller is still going to bring Donny down!”
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 1 month ago:
It also has that one dude on the street in saint denis who
minor side character spoiler
is pushing his eugenics book.
- Comment on I don't think they understand. We're interviewing them too. 2 months ago:
Yup. It’s an interview. Not a viewing.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 3 months ago:
Right, I cannot access my wishlist on the mobile app or mobile website.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Agreed. I am becoming increasingly more skeptical of psychiatry since it seems like a means of downloading society’s problems onto individuals.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
Yup, same with PFAS and forever chemicals. Maybe I’m ignorant because I’m not a doctor, but I don’t know if this line of thinking holds water - pun not intended.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 4 months ago:
Sheeiit I absolutely loved the first one, even only having played it for the first time last year. I was blown away at how well it holds up. I do recommend trying it if you have even a morsel of interest. Just my personal 2 cents tho.
- Comment on Tiny pp 4 months ago:
You seem like the type who’d start dropping N bombs if you saw a person of color driving a car you deemed too loud.
Or maybe getting ableist as fuck if you saw a wheelchair-bound person rolling coal.
Sure, these are shitty things to do, but body shaming is the weapon of the enemy.
Seeing deplorable behavior doesn’t give you a free pass to body shame, be racist, ableist, or misogynistic.
- Comment on Tiny pp 4 months ago:
Good meme, but we really ought to end small-penis hatred.
- Comment on "surrounded by water but not a drop to drink" or smth 4 months ago:
I always thought Venice looked like a handshake.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 months ago:
You know those tanks were trying to leave the square, right?
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 5 months ago:
And my point is that this kind of thinking is what contributes to our abysmal rate of people speaking up due to harassment.
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 5 months ago:
The fact that some event happened outside of work hours by no means disqualifies it as legitimate harassment. We should absolutely not be disparaging people for invoking this protection. Think of all the vulnerable groups who may be less likely to speak up after some shitty behavior if we start shitting on people for invoking this protection.
A hostile work environment claim may include conduct that occurs in a work-related context outside an employee’s regular workplace.[219] For instance, harassment directed at an employee during the course of offsite employer-required training occurs within the “work environment,” even if the training is not conducted at the employer’s facility.[220]
Example 53: Harassment During Off-Site Employer-Hosted Party Was Within Work Environment. Fatima’s employer hosts its annual holiday party in a private restaurant. One of her coworkers, Tony, drinks to excess, and at the end of the evening attempts to grope and kiss Fatima. Although Tony’s behavior occurred outside Fatima’s regular workplace and at a private restaurant unaffiliated with her employer, it occurred in a work-related context, the company-sponsored holiday party. Therefore, based on these facts, the harassment occurred in Fatima’s work environment for purposes of a Title VII sexual harassment claim.
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 6 months ago:
Yep. And it is an easy one to test. Just inmobilize the bike’s steering and see how well you can get it to balance.
- Comment on Anon explains the 2nd amendment 6 months ago:
People who drop these kinds of memes still think warfare is carried out and progresses like it did in the Napoleonic era: two orderly opposed fronts clashing head-to-head in theaters with well-defined boundaries - where the adversary with more guns/people/resources win. Because more guns/people directly equates to military power, right?
These folks would do well to spend even the slightest amount of time learning about fourth generational, guerilla war.
Let’s take this meme back a couple hundred years and cast OP as a counter revolutonary American at the onset of the revolutonary war.
/*Wants to have muskets to fend off british empire
/*british empire:
Starts to seem silly when you realize even our founding fathers were doing guerilla warfare not long ago.
- Comment on National Park Service Will Cite AWD Drivers for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails 7 months ago:
The Kia Seltos and the Kia Telluride are both AWD vehicles that offer diff locks.
Why confuse the hell out of everyone with the AWD vs 4WD distinction when it really all comes down to having a diff lock? I feel like it’d be much easier to communicate and enforce a “diff lock only” rule.
- Comment on "The Iron Giant" was released 25 years ago on this day. 7 months ago:
I always enjoyed Filmjoy’s take on this one
- Comment on vibe check 7 months ago:
Wym? Am I missing something? Either should work, right? I am most familiar with it described as Fourier analysis which to me is synonymous with analysis in the frequency domain.
- Comment on Linguistics 8 months ago:
I dig the variety of topics on this comm, and I super appreciate how it doesn’t get STEMlordy at all.
- Comment on Goodbye, old friend. 8 months ago:
I wonder if there’d be a different prefix for a Martian geologists. I suppose they could be called areologists?
- Comment on Archaeology Problems 8 months ago:
The idea that aliens built the pyramids is racist.
- Comment on Anon is your financial advisor 8 months ago:
You find something cheap from China, then you flip it to suckers on Etsy for 10x the cost.
