This post is a compiled snippet from a Twitter thread that I've transported over here for posterity. The original thread started here: https://twitter.com/b_cavello/status/936986943203790850

I do wonder when will be enough for a general strike.

I feel like it's time, but I'm not organized enough yet, and that's scary.

I want to help provide for my community. If there is a general strike, we need to ensure medication, food, and other care are still provided

Which is stressful because that's a baseline it feels like we already don't meet. 🙃 But I'm trying, but it's disorganized and personal.

I'm also very afraid of violence, to be honest.
Looking at other places where the government has disintegrated, marginalized folks are hurt.

It feels like a catch-22 between impossible reform and hazardous accelerationism.
Who do we lose in the fight to win?

"Survivalism" is poisonously individualist. We need the opposite. We need radically inclusive sustenance.
& I know folks have been preparing

But insecurity is toxic.
We're trapped where we are by the fear that we'll be one of the casualties of upheaval. It feels chaotic & scary.

Capitalism and a lack of healthcare keeps everyone in a state of insecurity where life hangs in the balance and it's risky to try for change

It's nigh impossible for me to envision a revolution in our current world that doesn't produce tremendous pain, suffering, and loss.

And maybe that's just reality and we're stuck or maybe there are strategies of which I cannot conceive.

But it feels like a trap.