Just helped organize my workplace with the Teamsters, let's go!!
I need to look deeper if the UAW has resources to start a chapter
Massive respect to you!!! So happy to hear it!
You rock.
The 20s are roaring again baby
Like, yes, this is the part I like, but it’d be really cool if we didn’t repeat the 20th century. As funny as it is to imagine boomers in purgatory in a hundred years annoyed that gen z is considered the greatest generation, it’s equally tragic.
Aren't the majority of people striking Millennials?
We’re mostly too old to fight the wars though. Like, the main pool of soldiers for WWIII would be gen z, not millennials. Millennials get to be the lost generation though, how fitting
How could they forget us though? We ruin so many industries! /S
Obligatory monch on Crispy delicious bugles
And gen X is the forgotten generation, just how we like it.
If it's anything like WWII (and starts in 2039) then the canon fodder is barely born yet.
The Bernie Sanders meme tenplate is perfect for this
Yeah, that's probably how he actually looks like at home currently.
Hey, I mean…now might be a great time for a general strike. Solve a few problems, huh?
Serious question, how does a general strike start? How do you organize that many people quickly?
Social media. It has been used for quick grass roots organizing in many countries.
I have my own conspiracy theories on why X/Twitter and the like have been crashed the way they did.
I don't think those are really theories considering what happened to the two largest platforms within months of each other.
The Russian general strike of 1905 is mainly a result of defeat in a foreign war combined with the bloody Sunday. So people spontaneously started to strike, with little to none organization.
In fact, at the start of the general strike, most socialist parties were taken by surprise, and only after they realized that the revolution was happening, did they try to enter the scene and steer the movement.
Wasn't Bloody Sunday in Ireland?
I'm not familiar with the Ireland one, but I was referring to this event: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1905)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Bloody Sunday!
Bullet-dummy, brothers, won't take us.
Is "life for tsar" our concern?
Tell me mother about fifth year.
- ELYSYUM, 1905
There were a few in Ireland. The one generally referred to in recent times was a 1972 massacre in Derry's Bogside district (the city has the Waterside, historically inhabited but unionists and descendents of English-backed colonists, and the Bogside, historically inhabited by native Irish). During a march to protest the internment without trial of Irish Republicans, British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 (another later died of wounds) and injuring another 12.
This was an inflection point in the history of The Troubles, escalating the conflict. Despite multiple investigations showing the actions to be unjustified and unjustifiable, none of those implicated have yet stood trial, though one is set to, after years of prosecutors trying to avoid it, additionally, all of the soldiers' names remain redacted.
There were at least 3 others in Ireland as well. One of the others with major conflict implications being the 1920 massacre of civilians at Croke Park in Dublin. In reaction to a morning assassination of British Army intelligence officers by the IRA, the Black and Tans (Royal Irish Constabulary; British occupational force) drove armored cars to the football pitch and opened fire, without provocation, on the 5,000 spectators and players of a Gaelic football match, killing 15, including three children and a young woman (the latter I mention primarily as it was even more impactful at the time), and wounding 80, all civilians.
This significantly damaged the perception of British authority intentionally and with the indigenous population of Ireland, and garnered increased increased support for the IRA.
UNIONS WORK.
There are only ~3000 billionaires
In the US the number is only ~750
Fuck yeah.
Let's keep this momentum going now.
Watch out for shady fascist fucks.
Come on, general strike!
This! Every fucking industry is underpaying their mid/lower employees. It's sickening that the older generations literally stole the future. And now they have the audacity to blame us. No! Everyone should strike!
Damn shame the railworker strike didn't happen round this time. They would've stood a better chance.
I wanna strike!
✊🏼
This could also be the domino meme lol
Can you call strike on Putin's bunker? Preferebaly airstrike. With bunker-penetrating missiles of course.
I am not a mathematician, but the last number looks smaller to me than second to the last. Bernie is overreacting.
The auto industry is more important to the economy than Hollywood.
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