this is the kind of meme that pisses me off for it’s lack of one huge piece of evidence: DATE

today's #AltTxt #yaddayadda is about the historic FEBRUARY 12 2026 #GeneralStrike in #India
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/20/anatomy-of-a-general-strike-how-workers-in-the-indian-state-of-karnataka-shut-down-production/

âťť 300 million workers just shut down India.

The largest strike in human history, and most of the Western media barely whispered it. That silence is complicity in Modi’s war on workers’ rights.

India’s general strike is the future that the billionaires and ruling class fears most ❞ 🧵…

@blogdiva Where does the 300 million number come from? The linked article says 600k.
@blogdiva I should clarify that 600k is still amazing, but 300 million would be a group the size of almost the full population of the US and 20% the population of India.
@ramsey 300 million is correct, and as you can see from many replies you were incorrect. Have you apologized to @blogdiva yet?
@CuriousMagpie @ramsey please, don't do this. there’s no need for drama.
@blogdiva sorry - high pain day makes me touchy about others being belittled. @ramsey
@CuriousMagpie @blogdiva I don’t think I said anything belittling, but if that’s how it came across, I apologize. It was not my intent.

just for the record:

next time, back up your comments with as many sources as i give. don’t sit their and tear down not only the work of women and PoC on here, but the activism of a whole fucking country of people that don't look like you.

compared to Indians, Puerto Ricans, and Argentinians, white americans look like entitled cowards. so as a representative of your people, don't go questioning the activism of the Global South when you got nothing to show.

@ramsey @CuriousMagpie

@blogdiva @CuriousMagpie I’m very sorry for the way this came across. It was not my intent to rebut your post, and I wasn’t saying or implying that you were wrong in any way. I wasn’t trying to debate you.