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Swift? i don't think we should be looking to entertainers for political leadership, that's just following in the footsteps of how we got Trump.


You're not gonna get a general strike without people with significant national influence pushing for it, and it's not gonna be Chuck Schumer.


They're not gonna push for it without grassroots organization, which means doing things at the local and online level to get the idea in wide circulation. It's not a startup.

Absent this, people will get more and more frustrated which will eventually manifest as riots as it did in 2020. So if you prefer a more peaceable outcome, I think it's better to talk up the idea of a general strike rather than talk it down.




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