I just don't think a general strike should necessarily involve government watch-dogs; people like them and the media should work harder to amplify their messages.

Why should anyone care what you think about this? You clearly don’t understand collective action, so why don’t you just go about your business as usual?

living up to the name dingus88

And yet many people here are just hearing about this due to the EFF announcement.

If everybody doesn't participate equally in the general strike, then it's basically burning down your own neighborhood to protest something that happened on the other side of town.

If everybody does participate, then it amounts to burning down the whole city.

It's such a dumb idea that it's almost indistinguishable from an attempt at subversion by the actual parties/powers being protested. Announcing such an effort 3 days ahead of time while making no specific demands is just icing on the proverbial cake.

sounds like it's a religious ceremony to you. the purpose of the strike is to increase pressure on the government, you're demanding actions that decrease that pressure, apparently for piety reasons.