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I believe that's called a Boycott. Usually those are targeted. I'd recommend boycotting as many companies as you can whose CEO tickled Trump's anus with a faux golden thimble.

Yep

Modern American economy doesn't give a shit about labor strikes.

But a consumer strike?

Everyone literally cutting out all extraneous purchases and cancelling every subscription except utilities...

That would get the wealthy's attention.

That's true, but at the same time, aren't most people already boycotting what they can? I think anyone who feels bad about supporting shitty companies are already avoiding them when they can, and if they can't, well there isn't much more to do until we hit mutual aid networks.

There was a 'single day consumer stop' recently that was just plain silly. That won't even show up on a weekly report, let alone concern even managers.

Also, if they don't know it's due to a standpoint, they will look for every other likely reason available. It needs to be a movement

ICE Pigs are going to have to eat regularly, so make it difficult for them. Undercook, overcook, serve it cold, spit in it, add extra onions when they ordered it without, slow service, slow delivery, refuse orders, forget ingredients, forget condiments, lose orders, short orders, etc.

Mess up EVERY meal, and it doesn't take long to start making people really unhappy.

It has to be the employees not the state because companies withhold it and remit directly to the IRS. Not saying you should do this, but if you increase your ~~withholdings~~ exemptions then it won't go to the IRS. Though you will owe it in April and may have to pay penalties for underwitholding.

Huh turns out I was already resisting without knowing it.

It pisses me off when people accelerate so quickly off the red light and whip around me just to slam on their brakes at the next light, while I'm trying to save gas. It seems so unnecessarily dangerous.

Same thing when accelerating onto a highway or up a hill with a downhill on the other side. I get that people are in a hurry - sometimes I am too - but don't do it behind me in the right lane.

1. reproduction isn’t a choice for some people. that’s fucked up but it’s cold & hard reality.

2. this just increases the ratio of parents in the next generation that are shitty people, effectively strengthening fascist movements by increasing the proportionment of lil hitlers vs everyone else in the kindergarten class.

i think this strategy is highly problematic if you think about it for literally even just a second, and i say that as someone who would never voluntarily have kids.

This is what I've done; I founded an adult rec sports league a few years ago that's burgeoned into a thriving community. It's about half queer, we have a large group that hangs out after games, regular social events, developing leadership board, active Discord. We've raised over $10,000 for charities and member medical bills. (America is really sad) It's really a bright spot in a lot of our lives right now. As things get worse, we now have a community to fall back on and support one another.

This sounds like copium even if it was realistic. The idea that Epstein is some kind of anti-fascist silver bullet fundamentally misunderstands how fascist movements work.

I think this would actually have the opposite effect. It’s essentially the Dead Cat Strategy. That’s a political tactic where if you’re losing an argument and can’t see a way to turn it around, just throw a dead cat on the table. Now everyone is suddenly talking about the dead cat, instead of the argument you were losing. It refers to when a politician is losing a debate, so they just start making outrageous statements to grab attention and divert the debate away from the argument.

Epstein’s body would be a dead cat, as news would divert towards covering that instead of covering the files.

With a cloth coming out the top to wipe your hands? And a lighter to keep warm?