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1. Radical_EgoCom (radical_egocom@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:09:37 UTC Radical_EgoCom

   Can someone please explain to this idiot that general strikes work? I mean seriously, go to @ravenonthill@mastodon.social and give them your best argument for general strikes.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:09:36 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     For a contemporary example just look at several more or less successful French and French Caribbean general strikes in the last couple of decades.
   • Violet Rose (she/her) (violet_rose@freak.university)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 11:39:02 UTC Violet Rose (she/her)

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     @Radical_EgoCom This argument pretty much amounts to "fighting back against the oppressor can result in being oppressed harder, so we shouldn't do it", which is not only self-defeatism, but put forth as an argument to others, amounts to outright collaboration.

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   • sophist ramby (rambyzombie@freak.university)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 11:39:08 UTC sophist ramby

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     @Radical_EgoCom Like, the reason to debate a numbnut like this one is to convince the peanut gallery around the numbnut that their idea is bad. But in this forum, at this time, I am.... skeptical of a sufficient peanut gallery that isn't already convinced that the numbnut bootlicker's idea is bad exists to make it worth the hassle.

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