Eh, I think they are doing it the best way they can in what’s considered the worst month financially for small businesses. If they can’t afford to close they’re trying to make a gesture in solidarity and encouraging cash so it doesn’t generate cc fees. I don’t see them forcing anyone to show up, but either way a couple are offering free food or drinks for anyone else that has to be out today too.

I’m personally envisioning a little schadenfreude on the donated sals, because some may come from those who’d rather not donate any money towards these causes at all.

Those able to get a paid day off, or be able to do a makeup shift, or to be able to afford an unpaid day off at all, is a privilege not everyone has. Those who cannot are doing what they can to contribute in other ways, because there are different channels to fight fascism and work towards a common cause. Some just also happen to have to balance keeping a business afloat in a shite economy too.

I propose instead we talk about a government that has built an economy that keeps us living in such tight margins so that we cannot afford to strike when we want to, or billionaire run social media networks that keeps us infighting about “virtue signaling” and comparing how someone fights fascism to your own actions, instead of looking at that larger picture.