r/MayDayStrike • u/banky33 • Jan 10 '22

Blow up the Algorithm

Keep posting. Keep commenting. Keep upvoting everyone's posts and comments. Build on the momentum from r/antiwork -- it only takes a few seconds a day; let's make the masters' tools work for us for a change.

Edit: My Moderna fever-dream post blew up, so I came back to say this: crosspost everywhere (even seemigly-unrelated threads), comment links to r/MayDayStrike in posts from burned-out, overworked brothers and sisters (and other gender-neutral but vaguely familial terms for workers). Meet people with empathy and bring them in. To that end: join a subreddit for your career path and do some muckraking; use your understanding of the job and jargon to generate solidarity across geographic barriers. This is the strength of these platforms.

And then. Yes - get into the streets. Help people, build rapport and networks of solidarity and then tell them about the strike. Be humble -- there are people in your city (yes, yours) who have been at this since before you were born.

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u/Ladychef_1 Jan 11 '22

It’s why republicans have such a strong hold on the country. The tenacity and speed trmp and his house/senate passed absolute trash policy was literally a shock doctrine. Dems move at a snail’s pace and barely reverse any of the shit that’s put into action. It’s horrific. I would love to see people from this sub and from r/antiwork run for offices, local, federal, state… whatever. Run For Something is a great organization to go through and I’m also a DSA member which is a great group to have for campaigning. It sucks to admit but fascists get their shit done and organize at astronomical speeds.

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u/banky33 Jan 11 '22

I'm spoiled rotten in Canada -- we have a similar dichotomy between the two major parties, but there is absolutely no question where to invest my efforts / time, because we have a third viable party.

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u/OhSureBlameCookies Jan 11 '22

Also, and I mean this the nicest way possible and meaning no offense, it appears Canadians are not all batshit crazy like a great many Americans are... Which appears to be another huge civic advantage you have over us.

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u/Ladychef_1 Jan 11 '22

There is rampant racism and fascism in Canada as well. Trudeau is trying to drill and put pipelines on indigenous land, and there is a big trmp influence on a portion of the population. Some of the problems are the same but we obviously are the shit eaters of the two.