• demlet@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Obligatory reminder that the US is geographically monstrous and organizing a nationwide strike of enough people would be extremely difficult to pull off. We’re also extremely tied to our employment for little luxuries like healthcare, and we have very weak worker protection laws, and right now seems like an especially bad time to lose your job protesting for the sake of the half of the country that absolutely loves what Trump is doing, whether they admit it openly or not.

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      Obligatory reminder that losing democracy, civil rights and liberties is going to suck 100 times more… the more you wait, the worst it will be for you