National Strike. Making sure y'all got the memo.

For. The. Last. Time.

This. Is. Not. How. A. General. Strike. Works.

I'm convinced that these posts are false flags to give the idea of a general strike a bad name. A real general strike requires planning, coordination, saving for lack of income, commitment from individuals and communities. This would take a long fucking time, probably years, to put together. This shit ain't fucking it.

This would take a long fucking time, probably years, to put together.
You're right in everything else, but not this. You need a certain amount of infrastructure to make it work, but nothing near years of planning. General strikes would be useless if they needed years of planning. The problem is the lack of infrastructure, but once you have that going it can literally just... happen.

As long as 49 states have employment "at will" and health insurance is tied to employment, it's just not going to happen.

Still gotta try.
Just like how we still gotta fight for the ecosystem even though climate change is a sure thing and we're locked into incoming horror.
You still gotta try.
We don't know what'll change in the next 10-20 years. But people win unwinnable fights, and even losers can leave a lasting mark. It's not pointless, even if it feels that way.
We owe it to the future, and they'll judge us kindlier for our efforts. May they be merciful on our souls, they were born into our sins.
- You're right we have to try, but this method won't work. You can't ask people to sacrifice that much without more of a certainty of success.
Then they have accepted their fate. No meaningful change has ever happened without sacrifice. At this point it's either strike or wait for civil war.
- The first step is convincing enough people that those are our only options. We are nowhere near to having a critical mass for either of those options to work.
I requested the day off from the jobs that matter.

So no one is going to work on a Saturday… I feel like there’s maybe 5 better days of the week which might make a bigger impact.

I can't tell if you're joking? Tens of millions of people work on Saturday.
Tens of millions of people spend money on Saturday.
Are you a bot?
- Not a bot and not joking. While I agree a lot of people work weekends, you must admit those jobs also work weekdays when most everyone on the planet works. There’s a heck of a lot more people working Monday-Friday than Saturday (or even fewer, Sunday). Want to shut down the means of production, do it on a weekday. Want Retail and Food Service to lose a bit of money, do it on a weekend. On a weekday you shut down not only retail outlets and restaurants, but manufacturing, construction, government services and offices, etc.

The no internet doesn't make sense to me. We've already paid for the bandwidth, we'd just not be using it? May be better to advise people to switch to Firefox and install uBlock origin or ditch Whatsapp to hit Meta/Facebook where it really hurts. But I guess that's not as easy to communicate.

Or do the contrary and download all kind of stuff from websites that are target of the strike. So like a DDoS attack but without a centrally controlled botnet. Just thousands of regular people manually downloading the WhatsApp client for iOS, Windows and Android at the same time, people uploading their encrypted backups to Amazon Drive etc.
- Just thousands of regular people manually downloading the WhatsApp client for iOS
  Not trying to discourage people from doing this, but they likely have caches or rely on CDN's that wouldn't really show any impact of any kind. Even if they do, a single day of being "down" is not doing much. For it to be effective people would need to continue this for weeks, and I don't see anyone caring enough to do that— they're not even willing to ditch facebook/twitter/whatsapp, we think they're going to maintain a DDoS attack?
  Same issue with uploading encrypted backups to Amazon Drive/Google Drive/OneDrive, etc; there's already built-in limits that protect them, and at the end of the day you're just using what you already paid for. If you fill up your storage you have to pay them more to use it. Not a good strategy IMHO. The only real way to hit their wallet is to leave their ecosystem.

The US is really in a state of decadence if even its people aren't able to properly resist. It would be funny of it wasn't so pathetic

Sure I guess. Worst case, nothing changes.

Yawn.