This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
Damn I felt this in my bones. I am a union organizer at my hospital and those numbers are bang on… Out of a department of 100 or so there is usually me being the union person, and MAYBE I can get 1 or 2 other people to do certain things at certain times, and about 5-10 people to participate in an in person action that isnt a strike… And the other people are happy to get the benefits but dont want to put in any effort or “risk” at all.
We actually did have a 1 day strike 3 years ago and I’d say even then 3-5% of the people crossed the picket line to work, maaaaybe 50% of the nurses showed up in person outside the hospital, and the other 50% just cant be bothered to interrupt their life at all.
We are very tactical with our stuff and it was only a 1 day strike (although it does have ramifications for about 5 days because of staffing contracts)… If it was an open ended strike I bet the number of people that would be active in it would immediately fall to your stated 15% or so outside of the first week
Bread and circuses. Things only change when you cut those off. Why do you think there were giant protests in 2020? We lost the bread (tons of industries were indefinitely on pause overnight) and we lost the circuses (entertainment like sports also vanished). Lasting change happened in the past because people were literally starving and people had nothing to keep them going. Even then, you can get a North Korea situation once in a while, where they’re paradoxically starving to death and still compliant.