I don’t see orher adult animals sitting in front of a screen and paying taxes either

I think you fundamentally don’t understand the nature of politics (and also strikes). DNC is one of the two major political parties. They are working in the democratic system, they don’t need to do strike, they will not benefit anything from it. The strike is one of the hundreds of ways people can influence politicians from outside the system. Until the next Trump term, you still have much easier to achieve ways to do that from inside the system, the particular way America does democracy is still in place.
Whatever revolutionary things you believe will help can’t appear from nothing, it takes decades to build enough union power to even achieve something, and you’re working basically from scratch. Meanwhile, democratic process that you’re discouraging people from, is right here, existing, working albeit poorly.

It’s what you’re saying, but it’s not your argument. Your argument is to be ineffective and doing nothing, while pretending that you hold moral high ground by doing so. The “firebombing wallmart” is overused metaphor, but it still holds.

I’m not making any claims, deliberately, because I don’t know inner workings of Chinese surveillance system. I’m just relaying an anecdote.

It’s the other way around actually, if we’re talking about general strike, one that really matters. A well put together union can organise a small strike that will achieve nothing and show nothing to nobody, but spend all their resources. But there is a reason, every serious talk about a big strike with people who know what they’re talking about starts with “well, we can think of something by 2029”

Yeah, that requires dedication and free time and resources very few people have.

You didn’t actually read what I wrote, didn’t you?

If voting actually matters, they would spend so many money and resources convincing you that it’s pointless. Like, leaving comments about it under every post.
Fun fact, it’s the second time in this thread I needed to write this exact answer to this exact comment, repeated almost exactly word to word.

There are so many steps between this and too late. Soo many.

The argument of “all Republicans are bad” is corroborated by the evidence. Your argument of “Everything short of utopia is hell and there is no point in doing anything unless it brings an utopia, and even then it’s pointless” is corroborated by shit out of your ass.

Which it undeniably is

their leadership

Is there because people used their political power to make them leaders, to achieve that goals. It’s a democratic process, albeit convoluted one.

All of the policies you want only get brought to vote when it is impossible for it to pass

It might be now, because nothing is possible anymore, but before current round of shitsow, amazing amount of smaller bills and propositions were passed, they weren’t flashy ones (and that’s why there were passed, under the radar), but it helped immense amount of people. Everything big, like medicare for all, requires so much more work, it was never possible to do in that short periods of time US government wasn’t overwhelmed by reactionaries.
But that’s all that people can actually achieve, for now.

It doesn’t stop you from voting in primaries, it’s free actually, and there is no eye tests for family members.

Without organisation, without plans, political will, without communities, without people to implement all that, without grassroots structures, you can’t achieve shit even if you somehow convince the whole country to strike. And when you start building those, you discover that you already have pretty good mechanisms in place to achieve your political goals, you don’t even need strike.
You don’t have the bandaid that needs to be ripped, you’re having a hearth attack and you need serious medical attention.

If voting was actually a threat to totalitarians in power they would spend a lot of money and power to convince you that it’s pointless and you shouldn’t do it.

Well, all the people you voted for are bad, and they’re in power because you voted for them.
Now I wonder, what’s the point of voting actually is. A mystery, really.

In around 2019 two of my colleagues were visiting China for business thing, one had Xiaomi phone and wasn’t asked to do anything, another had Samsung and his phone was searched.
It’s an anecdote, so make of it as you will.

Flashlight on android is actually a flash for camera, if you want to get proper access to the camera you kind of need this one.

If you wanted to illustrate the point, you should’ve put his photo with the face shrunk, not the original unedited photo.