• Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Many people, likely a majority, are not in a financial or practical position to participate in a boycott or general strike. That constraint is not accidental. Considerable effort goes into structuring economic life so that such actions are difficult to sustain, and additional effort goes into convincing people they are even more powerless than they actually are.

    Even within this comment thread, some seem to overlook the range of options that exist between blowing whistles on one extreme and violent confrontation with the red hats on the other.

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      12 hours ago

      I don’t really understand if I’m honest.

      You don’t need to have a general strike as in not going to work or whatever.

      If you buy things from Amazon, stop doing that. If you visit facebook, stop doing that. If you use google or chatGPT, make better choices.

      Apparently, as few as 5% of a population can cause a revolution.