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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

How do you strike if you're already unemployed? So many people are already losing their jobs to automation and AI.

Also, one of the most insidious aspects of american healthcare is that by tying it to employment, people become utterly dependent on their employers. They lose a lot of leverage.

How do you risk your livelihood when you have cancer or diabetes and your corporate benefits are the only way you can afford healthcare?

Not to mention, most of the american workforce is not unionized. How do you organize a strike without workers unions?

Plus, there is a precedent in recent history where congress can pass legislation making it illegal for workers to continue a strike. How that doesn't qualify as forced labor, is beyond me.

So you see, there are many roadblocks to having an effective strike in the US, especially when the american system has been designed over the decades and centuries specifically to advance and protect the interests of the wealthy elite.

It's not about making excuses, it's about acknowledging the practical realities that get in the way of progress.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

To add to that yeah, there's a lot of guns in this country. In a lot of people's hands. Including those OKAY with all this.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And the rittenhouse case shows that in america, you can get away with shooting/murdering protesters, if you're a white conservative.

But a liberal counter-protester bringing a gun to a trump rally? Not even white privilege will protect you at that point...

There was an antifa member who was killed by US Marshals under Trump's first term. He wasn't allowed to surrender, he was killed on the spot.