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hamuelsanwich.bsky.social @hamuelsanwich.bsky.social

I’m unconvinced that a general strike would make things worse.

aug 11, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social

It could go either way but what I’m saying is that if you can’t get some essential aspect of the economy down, you’re likely just re-creating COVID, aka our oligarchs’ favorite time period

aug 11, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social

The people most likely to strike are also mostly in professions that the administration can mostly ignore/is trying to destroy anyway www.voronoiapp.com/demographics...

aug 11, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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hamuelsanwich.bsky.social @hamuelsanwich.bsky.social

I get it, doing this work would be too hard so let’s wait for sanctions!

aug 11, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social

You have not described a mechanism by which the leftest 10% of workers staying home causes the administration to change any policy

aug 11, 2025, 6:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social

The closest precedent we have is the 1919 strikes which ended with…yup a decade of oligarchy headed by Andrew Mellon, whose grandson is one of Trump’s biggest supporters

aug 11, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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hamuelsanwich.bsky.social @hamuelsanwich.bsky.social

Don’t worry, European countries are ready to crash their economies to enact sanctions. That’s a very real and very intelligent take.

aug 11, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social

I like how seemlesly you moved from a boycott to sanctions

aug 11, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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hamuelsanwich.bsky.social @hamuelsanwich.bsky.social

I replied to you hoping that other countries would perform sanctions on their biggest trading partner.

aug 11, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social

Did I mention sanctions

aug 11, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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hamuelsanwich.bsky.social @hamuelsanwich.bsky.social

Oh sorry, boycotts. It is so much easier to organize massive international boycott than a national general strike.

aug 11, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social

Yes, it is genuinely much easier to get 10% of people to stop buying Tesla and using YouTube than convince 10% of people to lose their jobs and become homeless

aug 11, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view