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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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Yeah let's ask creeping fascism if we can arrange a time where it works for all of us
Why do you expect people to just leave their jobs?
If I leave my job without notice, I get fired. Jobs are scarce where I live. If I have no job I lose my apartment. If I have no apartment, I am homeless. If I am homeless I can't get a job. If I can't get a job I'm dead because I can't afford my asthma meds.
Honestly, I've thought for a long time that this is one of the big reasons Republicans are against universal healthcare. If losing your job could likely end in homelessness or death it's so much harder to protest.
That, and your healthcare being tied to employment means your employer can abuse you more. Which I guess boils down to the same thing.
It literally means you're only worthy of care if you are 1.) in the confirmed service of a company or 2.) already wealthy.
eyup. take healthcare out of the equation and my job options would open up considerably.
Well, it's a Saturday so many people (hopefully) don't need to work their typical Mo-Fr jobs
Also, you can give a notice. There is still quite some time until April 5th
Is there ever a time, where everyone would be available?
And your comment should actually put the blame on the current system, where it's seemingly a life or death sentence to leave work for one fucking day.
So I think, it's very much worth to fight for change here.
With your argument, unions are also a really bad thing, because people strike and maybe don't earn money.
It's the fucking system, where people live paycheck to paycheck, and are forced to just swallow every shit, because they can't afford to defend themselves.
If you can't defend yourself now, do you think, it will get easier in the future, when you didn't complain about changes now, that make your life even harder?
I only expect that you try to give more than you originally thought you could. It's up to you to understand the risks you face and how to deal with that. Maybe that means you need to figure out an alternative to this protest - like if you can't make it maybe focus on getting others to go. Or putting signs up around your neighborhood.
But we DO each need to do something and coming in here and being negative and discouraging is not helpful.