needabra129 t1_jecg0k6 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:14 AM

Reply to comment by OraclesPath00 in China calls US debt trap accusation 'irresponsible' by BubsyFanboy

It’s so true. I think about this constantly and wonder - how are we not rioting in the streets over this? Pulling a Boston tea party and dumping oil…. somewhere that would render it useless without damaging the environment. Going on nationwide strikes to demand better pay, benefits, and worker rights. I’d like to think we are getting to that point, but god damn we are slow. The French would have rioted decades ago if this happened there lol

Parafault t1_jecgl0j wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:18 AM

Without unions, no one wants to be “the one” who takes the risk of losing their job. Even if you feel you’re being treated unfairly and paid like garbage, without said pay your life would be a lot worse.

needabra129 t1_jecijpq wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:33 AM

Which is why we need to unionize. And it’s happening, but slowly. I predict legislation in the next 5 years that enables all workers to actually unionize, and I think people will do it. People don’t believe the anti-union propaganda anymore… it’s gotten to the point that even if unions were run by the mafia, it would still be better than the zero rights we currently have that continue to be stripped away.

megustaALLthethings t1_jednzbz wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:03 AM

I’ve said that for the longest time and the bootlickers get all huffy and puffy. As if the literal mafia is worse than these wealth vampires sitting behind their armored and legion protected fortresses.

non-euclidean-ass t1_jedbyvd wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:39 AM

We have been! The BLM protests, Occupy Wall Street, Stop Cop City, when we do riot we get shot in the face with beanbag bullets and tear gassed and arrested and charged with felonies

Ancient_Artichoke555 t1_jed9sz2 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:17 AM

Even sicker is we won’t for a change. And “they” know it. We aren’t even a concern for “them.”

I come from revolutionaries bloodline and generationally.

The LAST time I had hope for the much overdue American revolution was when we all watched Egypt do it on live cnn.

I thought, perhaps america was a tactile learner, such as myself, and just needed to see it in action, to see what it will take to make changes.

I fear our time has passed. “They” will watch us do the same, to eachother in civil wars amongst ourselves. Only a real live version of hunger games with a rat race movie undertone to it. Is my suspicion at this point of these upcoming times.