I'd like to thank everyone for my most upvoted post on lemmy ever. Not only have you upvoted it to the top for like 2 days you commented the shit out of it. I'd like to take this opportunity to say fuck the mods of this instance. This was my second post coming off a 30 day ban and I want to say these fucking mods have been nothing but bitches. I've never been more attacked on any other instance, subreddit, forum, etc. then I have been in this fucking instance. Not only have I been attacked I've been told my memes arent memey enough again and again.
I'll be honest, I do not know how to make a meme but I keep posting just to piss in these mods cheerios.
Thanks lemmy.world/politicalmemes for being the worst community I've ever been a part of.
Okay I'll be blunt here: This is nothing and if this is Americans' idea of resisting then y'all are never going to beat fascism. Historians will look at this period and say there was very little popular resistance to Trump's regime.
I want you to understand what it is you're talking about when you say things like this:
You are asking for what it's the equivalent of all of Europe revolting against leadership that never leaves Prague.
America is really fucking big. I live in Seattle. I have been protesting. But my state officials are already more or less on my side
For me to protest in a way that actually causes a problem for the people in power I would need to drive no less than 41 hours if I didn't sleep. Realistically it's 3-4 days each way. Or hundreds of dollars in airfare or train tickets.
And of course I'd be fired for missing work.
I'm pissed as any American but what the fuck am I supposed to do? Asking America to revolt isn't like asking England or France or Belgium. Our leaders are in a proverbial ivory tower and we've been stripped of any ability to effect change through anything but a national strike, which has not been successfully organized, largely due to the scale required.
We have 341m people on 10M km² of land. Compare that to somewhere like Germany with 84m people on 357k km²
It's a much easier proposition getting 10% of Germans to their capital than getting 10% of Americans to ours
Here, 'just stop oil' has been throwing beans at famous artworks for publicity. The art works are all behind glass so aren't harmed. They then put it on social media. They also climb tall stuff and put up banners.
How about sponsoring people who have the time to go protest, hiring buses and setting up camps like occupy did? People who can't go can chip in to fund it.
You should coordinate strikes countrywide and don’t stop striking until conditions are met. Like the writers of Hollywood did. They reached their goals.
generalstrikeus.com
Everyone who needs to strike is living paycheck to paycheck. Nobody wants to become homeless in order to strike. And our media and networking are largely controlled by compromised assets.
I've been in and out of politics as a personal interest since the early 2000a. We're in a really bad situation right now.
Without a central voice to organize and lead people we're not going to be able to coordinate enough people across the country
Union dues fund a strike fund that is used to pay workers while they strike, that's why unions are so important to be able to strike.
Unions also call for strikes as a centralized authority, which the US populace completely lacks. When France had those huge labor strikes a few years ago it was all called for by 5 or 6 unions.
I tell everyone I know to sign a strike card at https://generalstrikeus.com/ but that platform is fully decentralized. Right now it takes several days for another 10K signatures, and the critical mass we're trying to achieve is 11 million. Yes, it's the best option I've found, and YES that rate will increase exponentially the more people who get involved, but is it efficient and timely? No, but it's the best we've got rn because the power of labor unions has been purposefully dismantled over decades.
Which is great except for all the people not in unions, and that most heavily unionized trade jobs in the US are somehow populated with people who both stand to lose a lot from Trump's policies and who are among his staunchest supporters.
One huge example:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/teamsters-favor-trump-harris-endorsement-00179879
A lot of those unions are politically agnostic to partisan slant because they're trying to navigate the current political climate, where they're basically unilaterally hated and unprotected, but also a lot of big unions exist functionally as an extension of the HR department of these companies because of how popular support for them has been drained, membership has dwindled, labor power has dwindled amongst their lower members because of increased automation, and because they've just straight up slowly been dismantled over time and legally gimped.
Hopefully more workers in other industries and areas that traditionally aren't unionized take the risk to unionize, perhaps with the IWW's help.
Sign a strike card! https://generalstrikeus.com/
Your state officials are already on your side, but your senators and representatives are likely following the DNC's ineffectual leadership and—among other things—confirming Trump's nominations for office. If so that's what you should be protesting. Make sure your state officials are also resisting Trump policies that affect the state (like California should have been doing when Trump started messing with their water reservoirs).
Then organize one. Unionize, and if already unionized have your union leaders cooperate with other unions to prepare so when the time comes they can quickly organize a general strike.
Europeans learning OpSec for the first time is the only redeeming part of 2025.
Amusingly enough, there's more. Because of Trump's ineptitude at negotiation Mexico got him to police gun flow from America to them, and it seems his sheer presence will spare Canada of a conservative majority in the next election.
Ride the wave. Have Denmark allow Greenland to enter a COFA with the US for a steep fee. The US already has that level of access.
Let Macron negotiate for the transfer of US bases and hardware at a discount as they leave. Use that to power Ukraine.
I don't see why authoritarians are the only ones allowed to benefit from our hard fumble.
What is a COFA ? The only thing coming up on a search is a "Compliance officer for finance and administration"
It's pathetic.
It's easy to judge from the sidelines. We were suffering well before this guy was sworn in... Most of us are just trying to survive right now. We're eating into our savings and retirements, and/or getting second/third jobs, and/or paying off medical bills. We're just trying to get by and support our loved ones and friends after massive spikes in our cost of living, our housing costs, and out of control inflation.
You're welcome to come raise some hell outside the capital if you can afford that trip, though. No need to wait for others and scoff - you do it. Be the change you want to see. And if you think it's too expensive and far... Welcome to the same boat most of us are in here in America.
People don't talk about it, but this is what jan 6th was. Not for a good cause, obviously, but basically everyone that was participating in that was either psychotic enough to willingly throw away their entire life based on a single ineffective and uncoordinated mass mob capital occupation on a single day, or they were small business owners who were able to afford to fly across the country first class and take several days off of work, and probably most of them were both of those things. A lot of these guys are getting arrested immediately after being pardoned because the prison system sucks and does not set you up for success, obviously, even for those wealthy people. There's not an escape from the state, even for them, their lives will be irrevocably altered and made worse by their participation in a single ineffective day of high profile movement.
Obviously you could action a good amount of political change onto people by simply making them think they have nothing left to lose, as we see with that, but again, mass, uncoordinated movements are broadly ineffective. More organized and militant action is what you really only get when people start to collectively understand that the people around them, the things they actually do have left, are under immediate threat, and they need to do something to stop that. Maybe even more than that, you probably need a funding apparatus which is either gonna be foreign, or probably based on illegal domestic activities. So probably foreign.
I dunno at what point some of those criteria start to be filled. It's not looking great.
This is why people need to band together. Yeah, its a kind of socialism. Here we have protests in the capital city and organisations run subsidised transport so you can get there very cheap or even free if you can't afford anything. We're suffering too, support each other.
It’s still cold yet. Just wait til summer.