Memes

General strike in the US seems like less of an impossibility year by year

Just restating some of the greatest hits:

1. Universal healthcare

2. Universal education through university level or trade school

3. At least a month pto annually

4. Parental leave for births

5. Guaranteed sick leave

6. 32hr new full time threshold before overtime

7. Only public, equal funds for elections, no PACs/dark money/donations, no lobbyist bribes

8. Any elected official over a certain level cannot engage in trading of individual stocks or own businesses, dump it all in an index fund or hand off management to someone else they cannot contact without a mediator and recording, immediate expulsion & no longer able to hold office when found in violation

9. No billionaires/oligarchs, anyone with earnings and assets over a billion should be taxed at 100% and assets redistributed

Edit: May 1st 2028 looks like a good target thanks to the UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/

No, don't throw the younger generations under the bus to clean up our messes.

If nothing else we are ride or die with them.

When you take away people's reason to live, their time, their hobbies, their ability to raise a family, their loved ones, you make those people very desperate...

...you might not be glad that you did.

glares in Nick Fury

With the suicide rate as high as it is, I’m honestly shocked more people don’t try to take these scumbags with them.

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-mountain-view-prison/

Path to the right is not mutually exclusive from the left.

Who's to say you can't get conscripted out of prison to die in the climate wars?

I say we embrace the French culture and take up guillotines.

jail is not fun. no computer.

There's only so many CEOs and billionaires

Or be like me and try to do such a deed then realize your bad aim in video games carry over IRL, then you get shot dead by their security and go to some purgatory with this moment replayed forever, reminding you how much of a failure you were.

The only reason I don't want to try is because if I miss, its gonna be so embarassing, I don't even wanna thinkg about it.

Lol, like anyone here is going to do anything other than protect their own comforts

For me American prison sounds a lot worse than whatever comes from climate change, so personally I'd pick that.

3 squares a day and lots of admiration vs unlimited access to distraction-ary cat pics

Who would win?

2700 soft nerds with at least one billion small pieces of paper each

VS

300 million chimps with access to the internet and Mountain Dew™

on the plus side, i now know that if a climate disaster doesn't do me in, the french revolution 2 electric boogaloo will

Why not both? I have a strong suspicion the climate wars are going also be a class wars. Although, if the common folk won't, getting jailed for war crimes against the rich may never be prosecuted 🤷‍♂️

Even better, a European CEO, where prisons are nice and cozy.

This is the way

Intentional heroin overdose