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Americans(we) are not going to do a general strike.

Don't think it matters, unless the stock market took a tumble.

But that’s true of virtually every dictator. You don’t get to be a dictator without a plethora of yes-men who are willing to implement the whims of the dictator without question. Dictators need True Believers to implement their plans, and oppress any opposition. That’s a basic facet of any dictatorship.

We won't.

I don't think the USA has ever done a general strike. We can barely manage a boycott. I don't think there is anyone who could possibly lead it. No one here has that kind of respect and charisma. Maybe Obama could? But that's not our tradition to have former Presidents continue to be political leaders — just fund raisers.

Plus we have no protection from retaliation. General strike is just asking everyone to no show. That's a write up or a firing. Goodbye health insurance. Not even any unemployment because that would be getting fired for cause.

Which is a lot of defeatism, I know, but how the fuck do you do it??? .5% participation isn't going to get us anywhere.

That aside, yeah. Don't expect us to do any better than any other historical democracy that voted in an autocrat. Unless someone is going to do us like we did Venezuela, or somehow we manage to have actual, fair elections this year, we're the bad guys going forward. And even then we'll just clap ourselves on the back and sing how awesome our country and forefathers are because we survived someone like Trump and just keep on keeping on like we didn't narrowly avert the end of the nation.

And I guarantee we'll vote in another Republican administration within the next 15 years. We're all (the world) pretty fucked. Let's not do global superpowers any more.

Who knew in 2026 it would be the beginning of 1939, except this time USA are the bad guys?

They won't in the end. As long as it's their neighbor getting kidnapped and not them or their family, they are content to complain on social media because it requires minimal effort. The rest of the free world need to sanction the Trump regime and start freezing assets ASAP, otherwise we will all be fighting a war against the fascist states of America.

Because Gaza, apparently.

Oh, and the two parties are equivalent.

And vegemite is delicious!

Most of us don't have the support for that. Our bills don't stop when we're on strike. Maybe those in unions can do something but the rest of us would be fucked by doing that. I'm certainly not going to ruin my life on the off chance it actual gets that moron to change his ways.

Nah, they're busy doubling down on the fact that they let a moron rapist into office and blaming the party and system for their life's choices. Smh. It's only year two.

I think we're all still holding out hoping that the midterms this year can somehow fix this, if not it's either about to get real End-of-the-USSR-y or real Tienanmen-Square-y.

In the meantime, support the DNC vocally, that's the best we can do for now.

If only there was an appropriately named "Big Party" happening somewhere important to the country sometime this year......

...until the bitter end.

Not just rouge, also blanc et bleu

You can always have one. You just need to kidnap a head of the state in which there is one. You already did once, it can't be that hard to do it a second time.