The day we start actually winning disputes like in Wisconsin is when we FUCK with their money.

[backscatter712]

That's what a strike does - fucks with their money. Shut down the oligarch's factories, shut off their profit-making systems, and then and ONLY then will you get that smug smirk off the oligarchs' faces and force them to deal with you.

Protests for show won't work - that's why Code Pink is completely ineffective - they shriek during a congressional hearing, the sergeants at arms drag them out, throw them in jail, then the oligarchs smirk and go back to fucking us. Because Code Pink only knows how to put on a show. They do not know how to fuck with their money.

What does work is French tactics like general strikes and blocking highways - it delays everyone, prevents goods, services and money from being delivered, and hits the oligarchs right in the pocketbooks. The French know how to fuck with the oligarchs' money.

That's why they get more done than we do - we're not willing to hit the subhuman fucks in their pocketbooks, so all they do is laugh at us.

We're too chickenshit to actually hit them in a way that hurts. Historically, look what happens when we do what is required to win - fuck with the money. They come out with their big guns, in some cases Pinkertons with actual guns, along with cops and National Guard troops, sent when it's politically impossible to send them for any other more humanitarian mission, to prevent we the people from fucking with their money. We have to be stronger than the oligarchs and their Pinkertons. We have to stand like the Egyptians and Libyans did - even in the face of lethal force, and fuck with their money.

The goal is to make exploiting us, with the consequence of us striking back by fucking with their money, more expensive than giving us concessions that keep us in the middle class.

Until we learn that lesson, we'll continue to get the red-white-and-blue shaft every single day. Because we're too meek to do the only thing that works - fucking with their money.

[Newsjock]

1. Thank you, The Rude Pundit

:)

[backscatter712]

3. I only emulate the best.

;-)

[TBF]

2. Should be required reading. K&R nt

[Rex]

4. Yep, that is so true!

But it won't happen without leadership...to bad we have none interested with standing beside farmers and workers. No shoes...won't travel. :eyes:

[leftstreet]

5. K&R !!

[postulater]

6. Let's all stop using toilet paper. You first.

[blindpig]

8. No problem...

we can use loan agreements, mortgages, utility bills, credit card bills....

[Thunderstruck]

10. DUzy! I love it! LOL...

[Bozita]

14. Is that you, Ted Nugent? ... Ted?

[postulater]

15. I wear a skunk hide loincloth

from skunks I killed with my teeth.

[xchrom]

7. Unrec for dissing code pink. nt

[socialist_n_TN]

9. Now this is what I've been talking about RE: general strike

THAT'S why you don't take the general strike route lightly because it's meant to HURT commerce and trade. One way or another you make it HARD to carry on capitalism. Barricades blocking highways. Peaceful occupation of factories so that they CAN'T work even with scabs. Clogging up streets around malls and shopping centers so that people can't get into them. DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU'RE PREPARED TO GET ARRESTED! Ask for a jury trial, so you clog up the court dockets MONTHS down the road.

DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU'RE READY TO MAKE IT HURT!

[Thunderstruck]

11. Wow!

[socialist_n_TN]

13. Yep. Wow. That's why you don't do it until.........

you're ready to go all in.

[wiggs]

19. A more focused approach...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x577796

[socialist_n_TN]

20. EXCELLENT suggestion wiggs...........

Do you have any contacts there? Even a one day sympathy strike of the idiot box would send a POWERFUL message. Although, it should be in conjunction with a general strike. Anything and everything to let them know that we're serious.

[Poboy]

12. R'd

[shanti]

16. hey

if they fuck with our money (pensions), we'll damn sure fuck with their money! and you can take that to the bank ;)

[Chemical Bill]

17. What factories? n/t

[backscatter712]

18. These days, I'd suggest blockading the ports.

Specifically, block shipments of cargo containers with Chinese goods in them.