Every federal service facing cuts and mass layoffs should do this to raise awareness.
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What are they gonna do? Cut your funding and fire your employees?
I wouldn't be surprised baby kingshit wakes up tomorrow has a fit, renames yosemite to america national park and threatens to remove citizenship from anyone who dare use the flag this way.
I'm surprised he didnt already do it for those who kneel during the anthem
The "you must stand for the anthem" EO is likely imminent since The Eagles told trump to go fuck himself and aren't going to go to the white house to celebrate their super bowl win.
They're 2 for 2. Go birds.
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Its a dangerous tightrope to walk.
There are a LOT of bullshit laws/policies to screw over federal employees. Most people are aware that they can't legally strike but there are a lot of less uniformly applied "behavioral" policies.
And, in a lot of ways, that is likely what musk et al is counting on. Because "Reply to this email so I can wank my broken dick to my power over you by midnight" is VERY questionable and prone to a lot of legal injunctions. But doing something that you can officially be fired for? That makes things easy.
And... it is easy to say "just quit if they are going to fire you". But that means you aren't getting a paycheck. And we as a people have made it increasingly clear that we don't actually have federal employees' backs so...
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Lol, France gets whole country paralyzed for 2cents tax increase on gas. US put their flag upside down after the government is litteraly stripping all their liberties from them... Pathetic...
I'm asking as someone who legit doesn't know, how does the French government respond to protesters? In the US at least we get shot at, maimed, felony records that lock you out of the job market forever, all kinds of stuff. Protesting in the US can be a life or death thing. Striking is also very difficult at a scale big enough to matter to the government because the US is enormous. If not enough people strike for critical mass then companies start firing everyone and any fines are just operating expenses. It's not impossible, we've done it before, but it's not like we're struggling to resist for funsies
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Well the distance from one side of Paris to the other is 11.5km.
The distance from the furthest point in France to paris is like 723km.
Washington DC is 22km at it's widest point.
The furthest point in the U.S. to Washington DC is 7,800 I'm.
In the lower 48 only, if you could walk in a straight line, it would be nearly 4000km. Driving it's an even longer distance cause it ain't straight.
I don't know what the fuck you Europeans think the size and population density of the US is.
That's a whole lot of geography to say nothing.
By that reasoning here in Canada resistance is futile and we can never according to geography protest in any way.
The distance from the furthest point in France to paris is like 723km.
The furthest point in France is Wallis and Futuna which is 16000km from Paris.
This is the lamest most pathetic American excuse I hear everytime. Or how about your population is ignorant and obese? And loves sucking off billionaires. Why the fuck do you have to protest in DC? God damn sick of how ignorant your comment is
The civil rights movement managed to organize a massive march on Washington in the early 1960s. It should be far easier to organize something similar or even larger with the current technology and larger population.
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We need to general strike across the board.
Also worth noting, Feb 28 is the economic blackout protest.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/economic-blackout-feb-24-hour-february-28-2025-peoples-union/
Not really. Not buying things for one day isn't going to have any impact on anything.
Having a strike or boycott with an end date is completely pointless.
Agreed. Might as well call the next day the 'buy twice as much as normal' protest, because that's all that will happen.
It's a first step to gauge the amount of support for the cause. If you can't convince people not to purchase things for just one day your sure as fuck not going to be able to convince them to not go to work.
If you support a boycott or general strike then I hope you're willing to do the bare minimum of not making purchases on one specific day even if you think it isn't going to much.
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It demonstrates organization and support. If a significant number of people make no purchases on one day it shows a lot of support for the cause and it's a warning that there are enough people paying attention that it can get much worse.
Conversely, if you can't even get people to stop buying things for 1 day what are the chances you can have a successful strike or boycott?
It's a first step, it's not the last one.
Maybe it is pointless, but bless 'em for trying.
And I'll be right there with them, because maybe it is pointless... But maybe it's not.
You know what's even less impactful? Doing absolutely nothing and saying "it won't have any effect" every. single. time. someone mentions a coordinated effort to resist. Even if it ultimately does nothing, we don't have to make their destruction of this country's democracy easy or fun!
It's not much of a protest when many of the people participating are doing so involuntarily because they can't afford to buy things anyway.
I see these "don't buy anything on x date" protests every few months. I've never heard of them actually having any impact.
March 14!
We need more than a day, most likely. if they know it is 24 hours, they won't freak out and send police and the national guard or whatever nonsense. Then we'll know they're listening. It needs to be indeterminate.
I agree. It's a start at least.
It's a warning. If you can get enough people to do it for 1 day to cause an impact, then you can do it for 2 days, then 3...
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I see two new thin-skinned executive orders coming:
- United States flags can't be manufactured in a way that makes it possible for them to be flown upside-down.
- Flying the United States flag upside-down is a criminal offense.
I'd love to see that first one written up just to have flag manufacturers go, "Wait, what?"
Im just imagining them creating some mind bending 5D object created by one dude who has been demanding funds for decades. Downside is anyone who looks at it for more than 5 seconds has an aneurysm, the sole exception are Autists who start hearing the whispers of dead gods and folks with ADHD because they zoned out and werent actually looking at the flag.
"ugh, how can you stare at that flag?" "What flag?"
im not staring, im listening
AuADHD?
That explains why my son says that all the time.
I can't tell what the flag is saying... It's either "kill your family" or "bill loves emily."
Also Trump and Musk bought stocks in the mind bending object manufacturing companies right before requiring all flags to be made with them
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Did you know? The US Flag Code does not specify exact colors, where the rectangle should be, that all stripes and stars have the same size, or really much of anything besides the existence of the features.
(If you ignore the diagram that was added later but that does not stop the field day vexillology circlejerkers sre having)
Ah yes, a vector to overturn Texas v. Johnson and eventually other first amendment precedents.
Don't you mean Yosemite mine sponsored by Nestle?
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