I’m really impressed by the courage of the Amazon workers who are going on strike. I was thinking what if one of the conditions of the strikers is that Amazon stops funding Republicans. Then I realized more broadly what if workers in all companies went on strike and demanded that the companies no longer funded Republican candidates. What are your thoughts on this?

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What if corporations weren’t allowed to fund politicians to begin with? Corporations can’t vote, so why do they get such influence? This kind of funding should come out of voters pockets, not corporate cash that belongs to employees and shareholders.

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That would be amazing! Yes, that’s better than what I was thinking.

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You’d need the workers to not be Republicans themselves, in which case the GOP would never win an election.

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Probably about half of the workers are Republicans (even if it isn’t actually in their best interest), so I doubt they would ever put up this condition.

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In general, people have got to stop voting with just their wallets and start voting with their labor.

Guess what, if Amazon had no workers, it couldn’t generate money to donate to Republicans.

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I’ve been saying this for years and always get the “they’re just people trying to get by!!1” responses, Literally okay degree removed from “i was just following orders.”. No dude, you’re taking an active, voluntary role in building the most destructive machine in human history. The workers are not immune to criticism of the company they choose to work for

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I agree with you. Imagine if people built a mutual aid network designed to sustain people for maybe 6-12 months and the country just went on strike. People stop showing up to work everywhere in protest of the oligarchy.

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Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, or close to it. A side effect of the top 1% holding 99% of the wealth.

Also a ton of Americans are scared shitless of anything that even sounds remotely like socialism or communism while knowing nothing about either. Like paying billions of dollars every year for insurance which is exactly that, just privatized.

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Regarding living paycheck to paycheck that’s why I mentioned the mutual aid network. I know most people can’t stop working for very long, that’s why there would need to be some kind of group to support this.

Regarding labels like socialism or communism, I’m not advocating for that. I just hope for better wages, working conditions and less corruption in politics.

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Even if they stopped funding Republicans today, they would be back to funding them in the run up to the 2026 elections.

Everyone company that stopped funding Trump after Jan 6th went back by November 2024.

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For the demands of the strikers they could include a time period for example no funding of Republicans until 2034 as an example.

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