• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I’d love to see some sort of general strike

    Same. That’s part of why we’re 50 fiefdoms instead of a single country. Makes it way harder to organize as a people and much easier to divide.

    Luckily I’ve kicked soda before, so kicking it when prices ratchet up wasn’t hard. It’s just a matter of halving your consumption for two weeks straight, after which point you don’t have any withdrawal symptoms and if it’s not in your house there’s no real temptation to drink it.

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      5 days ago

      I don’t think the US being one country would change anything. I have long held the belief that there is a population limit, not a geographic limit, to people’s ability to care that seems to hover at around 10 million.