r/SipsTea • u/Anulisdotexe • 10h ago

Chugging tea Peaceful protests in France today

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u/LarianDivinityBG3 10h ago

Peaceful protests aren't one of France strenghts.

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u/penguindreams 10h ago

But historically their protests have gotten more done than American protests whether peaceful or not. France has a good reputation for having both actually. Their farmers protested peacefully and it made a difference. Look where the US is now.

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u/PureXEye 10h ago edited 9h ago

We Americans just need to straight up stop feeding into the system that's screwing us. Doing marches and holding up signs doesn't do shit.

Truckers, railroad workers, port workers, and warehouse workers need to go on strike. This will absolutely fuck the system if there is no economy flowing through. The big corpos will have to come to the table then, because we all know the big corpos and "our greatest ally" are really the ones in charge.

Our politicians are too beholden to them, it doesn't matter who you vote the fuck in. There's too much money being thrown around. We the people have the power to just halt everything. We then need to also support those on strike who are out of work. It just sucks knowing how divided we are now. Everyday the media pushes out a new story to divide us by race, gender, religion, etc. Your neighbor is not your enemy.

We are supposed to be the well organized ones that they are afraid of. Unfortunately the method of divide and conquer wasn't just a saying and it actually works.

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u/Infinite_Incident107 4h ago

Strike? Most of the workers you mentioned aren't in a union. They can't go on strike. They'll just get fired. Which is why most don't do it.

Hell, even in my union it's actually against contract for me to go on strike. Some older union guys approved that years ago in return for something extra in their retirement accounts. Another classic example of old union dudes fucking over the next generation. The clause basically states anyone doing "essential" work cannot legally strike by terms set in union contract. Well, I work in HVAC so basically all our work is "essential" so if we strike the union won't have our backs.

If that's how it is with me, what chance you think your average warehouse worker has?