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I don’t think it’s inappropriate to discuss how effective a protest will be. If anything, it should inspire more ideas and action.

I already said I support doing something at all, but if you’re saying we shouldn’t try to make protests more effective, then you have lost me

Compared to “Fuck you, I’m not buying my groceries until tomorrow”?

Yeah, the words have more impact than that

The money doesn’t care till you fuck with the money, and this does in a way that they can’t exactly lash out in retaliation.

This is true, but this doesn’t fuck with the money. A one-day strike just moves the spending to a different adjacent day. People still need their food and stuff.

Data-wise, this would come up as a tiny blip in an otherwise unchanged pattern of spending. Easily rejected by most analysts as an outlier.

I guess I have more faith in a massive crowd demonstrating than I do in a one-day strike. At least one of them puts on a public spectacle

Do people expect this to make any difference?

Don’t get me wrong, we need to take action, and a strike would do it (and be hard on the participants) . But a strike for one day? What would this do?

I’m supportive, but not particularly optimistic about this