• gibmiser@lemmy.world
    33·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
      2·
      11 days ago

      Unfortunately you won’t die with us, you’ll die much sooner, not choking on a lack of oxygen or dying of dehydration.

      We need more elders like those in Japan who volunteered to clean up nuclear waste because they wouldn’t have to live with the long-term side effects of being exposed to radiation.

      As elders, y’all wouldn’t have to live as long in jail ¯\(ツ)/¯

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
    5·
    12 days ago

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

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
    0·
    11 days ago

    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/

    • DogWater@lemmy.world
      01·
      11 days ago

      Remember when the railroad threatened to strike and nacy pelosi said they would throw them in jail if they didn’t go to work…fucking unreal.

      A few take aways:

      They need us so fucking bad

      They will do anything to maintain control

      No one at that level is fighting for you

      Solidarity will be hard to achieve because those threats will be too much for people on the ropes in their day to day life to endure.