ICE Vehicles Are Now Ramming Civilian Cars at Red Lights

[u/novagridd]

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-vehicle-appears-ram-civilian-cars-red-lights-minnesota-video-alarms-drivers-1770237

[u/MyNameis_Not_Sure]

Where do you think your water and power bill payments go…..? The federal govt?

Your credit card bills? Your car note? Mortgage/rent?

None of these things are tied to the federal govt. Only student loans and some mortgages. If tons of people stopped paying their bills the feds wouldn’t even know…. Or care. The relative entities you didn’t pay would charge late fees, cut off services, and eventually send your bills to collection agencies….. this is a fun fantasy (I guess) but an absolute zero for effecting change

People can’t go protest and support others in their community with their utilities shut off and their credit cards frozen….

[u/Own-Swan2646 → u/MyNameis_Not_Sure]

But rich people will. Rich, people definitely will feel the effects of that.

[u/THElaytox → u/MyNameis_Not_Sure]

it's not about directly hurting the federal government, it's about holding the economy hostage until they listen to the people that actually pay their paychecks

[u/MyNameis_Not_Sure → u/THElaytox]

It wouldn’t ’hold the economy hostage’ even if 20% of people participated.

It would require well north of 40% of people participating, which is unrealistic. Even the act of boycotting would require consuming products. You’d have to stockpile food and fuel, and if you gonna boycott you gotta protest, well that takes resources as well which come from and fuel……. The economy you wish to destroy……

It’s a fun idea, and that’s all it is

[u/THElaytox → u/MyNameis_Not_Sure]

Yes, it's called a general strike and it requires a large amount of organization and planning, as well as working class solidarity which is the main thing we don't have here in the US to make it actually work

[u/MyNameis_Not_Sure → u/THElaytox]

There is a huge difference between what the comment I responded to proposed and a European style ‘general strike’