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Happy May Day, today is an economic blackout! Try not to spend money today!!
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Anonymous 1w

I’m spending 6 dollars to get to and from work for a $100B global investment firm

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Anonymous 1w

Too late At work Got an oil change Ate. Breakfast at a cafe

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Anonymous 1w

I’m spending extra money because of this

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Anonymous 1w
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Anonymous 1w

What does this do? Even if people did this, a single day of no or little economic activity does nothing. A general strike has to last weeks or months to do anything.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

I got my direct deposit from work today though

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Don’t downvote me, I’m working class

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1w

There’s gonna be more economic blackouts coming, especially during massive holidays like Black Friday, this is supposed to act as a wake up call to start saving ur money, taking it out of banks, and to stop shopping at big corporations. It’s a chance to fight for our rights without bloodshed, even just 24 hours of silence is SOMETHING

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Okay but like does it actually affect anything? How are we fighting for our rights if the people who’d take our rights away aren’t affected by this at all?

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1w

They will b if enough people stop funding them. Idk if u ever seen the Pixar movie A Bugs Life… those mfers need us. If we stopped funding them it’s over, they are using our money to terrorize

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Right but stopping for a day isn’t stopping funding. You’d have to convince people to stop for weeks, otherwise it doesn’t really work?

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1w

Right back to my first point, this is a wake up call, shits ab to get worse so we must prepare and this is what that is, if we can’t even do it for a day how we gon do it for a whole week? This is merely preparation and it takes patience to make change, I hope this helps

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