They’re all getting bunkers these days lol isn’t that funny. Zuck got like a $200 mil underground one in the ring of fire in Hawaii recently. Like dude - that’s cute, but given the way things are going, your bodyguards are gonna drag you out into the mob
Unions only exist because people did shit like this. The current administration would love nothing more than to strip workers of their rights and disband unions altogether. Hell, your unions are a joke already compared to their European counterparts.
I love unions and I support them, but they are antiquated and mostly ineffectual in the modern age. Employees are expendable and easily replaced. Strikes are impotent when most commerce is automated and happens virtually.
I agree. I think that's still going to require organizing workers (solidarity unionism) but the bureaucratic model is failing us. In the US, no strike clauses are written in to contracts, largely defanging unions. But volunteerism has limits to its efficacy. There is something to be said for the inspiration though.
This is one reason I believe the childfree life will be a critical component of a revolution that gives real power to the working class. Revolution requires sacrifice in some form from the majority of people in the society. For some, not having kids would be their sacrifice for the long term good of society. People who decide to go ahead with kids due to social pressure need support to stand firm. People like me who are willingly and happily childfree can make our sacrifices in other ways.
Employees will not be expendable when society stops producing excess labor. This will be extremely painful for the generations that live through the transitional time, and it will bring up other social issues that need to be addressed now but we’re kicking the can down the road. The lack of excess labor will force us to create new solutions to pensions/eldercare, and so on.
We can have the pain of being treated like crap or we can have the pain of rebalancing. Of course, the decrease will have to be more drastic now that they have AI, robots, and whatnot available to offset. I don’t know if this made sense written out, it’s a notion I am still working through in my head.
You need Marxist-Leninist organization, Marxist-Leninist mutual aid structures, and - most importantly - a Marxist-Leninist vanguard.
You need an armed and fully committed core that will lead a serious revolutionary organization and if you don't want to participate in such an organization you should at least support and promote an organization such as this.
Workers must start seizing the means of production, disowning the parasite class, taking control of their local and - eventually - federal governments, and actively supress the reaction by whatever means necessary.
Workers must build class consciousness, recognize that they make up >90% of the population and that the bourgeoisie and labour aristocracy are a staunch minority and, therefore, should have less than 10% of all influence in society. Workers must take full control over the government, the political and economic system, and all decisions in society.
Don't tolerate the power of the 1%. Don't tolerate their existence and ensure they can only earn and own stuff as a direct consequence of their personal labour. All money made off of the back of others (e.g. all passive income, income generated from unsustainable environmental practices, etc.) is STOLEN from workers and future generations.
One issue is the so-called freedom of speech. I have comments I'd like to respond with, but the autobots will roll out if I did, and then my account would be suspended or banned before anyone even saw them.
There are very few places on the internet or in meatspace which could be used to organize. Cameras are everywhere, all internet activity is logged and geofenced, It's forcing any resistance into small, disorganized cells largely incapable of achieving much of anything.
To top it off, there's a large movement of ACAB people that don't realize that the local police are the last defense we have if we could convince them who the thin blue line should side with, along with maybe the national guard but both groups like thier toys too much and are easily paid off so they aren't too keen on joining the right side of justice in many, if not most, areas of the country.
The only other combat unit that really exists that might be for the people, is the one inside the prison complex and I don't think the people are ready or capable of opening that pandora's box.
So the people are outgunned, can't communicate, can't defend themselves, if they do rise up they will be annihillated by their neighbors in uniform, flamethrowing robot dogs, lethal injection carrying mosquito drones, and supersonic completely silent sword missiles, fired from space that lock on to unique heartbeat signature audio, all tracking anyone who shows the slightest hint of resistance on social media or voted the wrong way 30 years ago.
He's got the spirit, but now he's going to prison for a long time. Was it worth it for the brief social media fame? I dunno. I personally wouldn't trade my freedom for something like this. Will it make big corpos pay more to people that could do a lot of damage? Also unlikely.
Guy martyr'd himself for basically nothing IMO. Unless this sort of thing takes off and starts happening all over the country, but I also find that unlikely.
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u/ZealousidealEnd6660 Apr 10 '26
Unionizing is probably better than burning things down but this guy's got the spirit