Summary
Trump and Elon Musk’s campaign to cut federal employees has spurred mass layoffs, protests, and a new wave of resistance. Once apolitical, workers now say they have been ‘radicalized,’ leaking internal documents, filing lawsuits, and rallying online.
Musk’s DOGE has forced out thousands through controversial ‘deferred resignations’ and rushed performance tests. Some Republicans warn about compassion, but many support Trump’s push to slash staff.
The fired workers highlight harm to public services, arguing the cuts undermine democracy.
They vow continued opposition, while seeking broader political engagement.
Fight back with a sign? With a lawsuit that will never see a court room?
The rulers are giggling at this pathetic show of power, and while we are all distracted with ourselves they will bleed us dry and take our rights.
Okay? Go shoot him then? Get on it
No we’re not going to do shit. Vote for stupid things, win stupid prizes.
Too many bodyguards
Imagine your kids lying dead in an airliner crash plainly due to lack of proper maintenance and there is no agency investigating whose fault it was, just corporations covering each other’s butt up.
No justice just pure capitalism
Not capitalism. Authoritarian fascists. Capitalism has its own set of issues, but let’s not forget any kind of authoritarian government is shit.
You can separate capitalism from fascism as one side of the coin with the other. Capitalism invented fascism to defend it when the nation/state couldn’t anymore, against labor and unionism of late 19th century. From paid thugs shooting strikers to off duty cops carrying assassinations, torture and terrorism, to the evolution of a pseudo-ideology to take over Germany and attack the Soviet-Union, which in their eyes was the source of the problems western industrialists faced. Fascism grows from inside the very nature of capitalism and it is inseparable.
I’m sorry, I don’t talk to Wumaoski.
Gradually this entire society is going to be pushed towards a civil war where male wasps will win and blame the war on everyone else. Already Trump has empowered the militant right and winked an eye to do attrocities in the form of paramilitary reaction against people mobilizing to strike, protest, organize.
This whole scenario is the US managing its defeat in Ukraine where the entire NATO went against Russia and lost, on one side, on the other side it will politically shift blame for the declining and collapsing $/oil economy that is imploding mainly due to its declining industrial and raw material base.
Industrial capital leading a banking federation is what capitalism’s core is. The “west” thought through the banking/oil choke hold it can control industrial capital which has now shifted together with the world’s primary raw material sources. So we have a collision course of two capitalist adversaries with the US not willing to accept defeat to avert a large scale war.
But if nobody can be wise enough to lead and beat some sense into the US/EU/UK elitism material conditions will. And the bubble of living and surviving on the blood and sweat of the rest of humanity without a cost will be violently coming to its end. In US/UK/EU, due to this condition politics range from right-wing pro-capitalism to ultra-right-wing pro-capitalism all against humanity.
Poor Israel is realising this western ally is collapsing on its own and is taking measures to be able to survive this phase of global war caused by the US/UK/EU
You got a better idea? Go out and do something if you think you can organize or otherwise do better. Otherwise you’re just a keyboard warrior just like the rest of us.
I do have a better idea, but none of you are willing to help yourselves… and I can’t do it alone. So, because I have relatively nothing to lose, I am fine watching the world fall down. It’s never done anything for me. When you get to the point where you’re willing to do something, let me know. But the point of no return is closer than either of us would like to think.
I don’t think this is existential for anybody but people in the U.S. Everyone else will figure their shit out without us. And that’s probably a good thing.
Perhaps, but there are a lot of people HERE who aren’t a problem… and they shouldn’t suffer because others were manipulated
Seems we are going in circles here. See my earlier comment to save us both time.
If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Don’t become paralyzed with doubt and fear, march on and push as much you can, and join up with allies while we still can easily!
This isn’t a worker thing though. This isn’t a union thing. This is a coup, with some Hollywood glitter.
I do agree that finding people in my own community would be a lot more effective than the sad lot on here (not pointed at you).
I don’t suggest the IWW so workers can strike for better wages, I suggest the IWW because it is the only anti-capitalist union in the country, and was traditionally a vehicle for people to organize under with the goal of using labor as a political and economic club against the ruling class. It also teaches people how to organize on a national or even international level.
Take the CNT and FAI syndicalist/anarchist unions during the Spanish Civil war, as an example. They were in the best position to organize the populace of Catalonia due to having been so successful as a trade union first. It’s a useful and powerful non-violent tool in our arsenal.
What’s your plan, Capitan?
I’ll get banned for telling you. These conversations are only good in private.