That’s why the general strike doesn’t happen on a certain date, it happens once enough people commit.

Economic tactics. The general strike is more powerful than people seem to realize.

A movement is a defined and coordinated event. It isn’t wanting something. The stats are not made up, but they have a lot of context that isn’t shared in the single sentence for sure.

Movements are not the same as protests, movements have leadership that has explicitly defined asks that the followers agree with. iirc the organizers had challenges with this, so their default asks were awareness and they got that.

A general strike is much larger in scale than a regular strike. It ceases economic activity, not just going to work. Therefore, it is inaccurate to say they require mutual aid networks (them existing is obviously a good thing) because you’re referencing union strikes.

If economic activity ceases, enforcement mechanisms are paralyzed. Refer to Oakland in 1946 or France 1968 general strikes to learn about the parameters which created success. Mutual aid networks were not among them.

A general strike is, in my opinion, the only good option left, and I really want people to understand we can do it and we can do it quickly, if only we are all prepared to do what it takes, not misinformed, and not scared of propaganda.

1/5 can only stop the 4/5 if they don’t fight back. So many people have been culturally taught to be run over - through distorted ideas of ‘respect’ ‘politeness’ ‘order’ and more.

They won’t let us? No. We won’t let them. Get up and defy them. In whatever style suits one best. Economic strikes, go off grid, protest with weapons, join a hacker organization, stop paying taxes, boycott the companies you hate… List goes on. Any one thing might feel like nothing, but together it is everything. Online there’s so much hopeless content, it is easy to feel like no one else is mobilizing. But they are and they need every single one of us to take action. It’s not important that we have the perfect strategy, it’s important that we all defy together.

The people of Texas are gerrymandered to oblivion and this is well documented. They didn’t vote for this. Billionaires came to Tx and bought the politicians, maga spread through and removed the old style Rs.

Not that I think anyone should try to run from these problems. They should be faced head on. But, it’s important to not blame the wrong people.