I wouldn’t say they’re calling me a liar, and they’re not even wrong, it’s just that the employment environment in Europe that makes General Strikes successful is far different than in America. They generally can’t be fired for any reason at all. Unions are common, and powerful, even in lower level jobs like retail, and even the governments are worker friendly.
That’s the exact opposite where any worker can be fired literally on a whim. Your boss hates your socks that day? After 20 years of loyal work, you’re fired, get out. Seriously, that’s totally legal.
OTOH, Europeans don’t have a mechanism where they can literally shut down the government they hate. We do, and it works every time (if our elected representives have have a backbone).
What works over there, doesn’t work here, and vice-versa. Criticizing Americans for not doing a General Strike is just as dumb as criticizing Europeans for not doing a Government Shutdown. We’re going to use the tools that work in our specific Political-Economic Environments. Doesn’t that make sense?
Thanks. At the end of the day I’m on your side and want the same thing, which is not having fascists at the helm of the United States. If that goal is achieved in a different way than I (or Europeans) would have done, that’s okey.
Good luck and fortitude in your fight for democracy.
Thanks, we’ll be okay eventually. We were raised on fables about Revolution against the most powerful military in the world. We don’t tolerate tyranny in America. MAGA will never win. When it finally blows, it’s gonna blow BIG.
Calm down? We’re gunna circle back around to that.
But I’m what world is half of a percent of 500m a day equal to 38 billion? So not only are you incorrect in your turn of phrases, but you also don’t understand math.
And I was calm, just pointing out that the phrase you used was incorrect. You so casually dropping that phrase is pretty fucking misogynistic, it really reads like guy talking down to a woman. You should really work on that about yourself.
You are not agreeing to disagree.
You are calling them a liar.
I wouldn’t say they’re calling me a liar, and they’re not even wrong, it’s just that the employment environment in Europe that makes General Strikes successful is far different than in America. They generally can’t be fired for any reason at all. Unions are common, and powerful, even in lower level jobs like retail, and even the governments are worker friendly.
That’s the exact opposite where any worker can be fired literally on a whim. Your boss hates your socks that day? After 20 years of loyal work, you’re fired, get out. Seriously, that’s totally legal.
OTOH, Europeans don’t have a mechanism where they can literally shut down the government they hate. We do, and it works every time (if our elected representives have have a backbone).
What works over there, doesn’t work here, and vice-versa. Criticizing Americans for not doing a General Strike is just as dumb as criticizing Europeans for not doing a Government Shutdown. We’re going to use the tools that work in our specific Political-Economic Environments. Doesn’t that make sense?
Thanks. At the end of the day I’m on your side and want the same thing, which is not having fascists at the helm of the United States. If that goal is achieved in a different way than I (or Europeans) would have done, that’s okey.
Good luck and fortitude in your fight for democracy.
Thanks, we’ll be okay eventually. We were raised on fables about Revolution against the most powerful military in the world. We don’t tolerate tyranny in America. MAGA will never win. When it finally blows, it’s gonna blow BIG.
I’m not. Just disagreeing with their take. Calm down.
Calm down? We’re gunna circle back around to that.
But I’m what world is half of a percent of 500m a day equal to 38 billion? So not only are you incorrect in your turn of phrases, but you also don’t understand math.
And I was calm, just pointing out that the phrase you used was incorrect. You so casually dropping that phrase is pretty fucking misogynistic, it really reads like guy talking down to a woman. You should really work on that about yourself.
You misread. Those numbers are not connected. Daily gdp of the United States is roughly 77 billion. Half of that is 38 billion.