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Approximately what percent of post-tax income and how many Big Macs could that buy in your area? (No fair counting your union dues haha)

Been thinking about it since I suggested a techbro user tithe 10% of his earnings to a local org earlier today. Thinking about how much my org could get done if we had a couple (or even one) techbro interested in clearing their conscience with a 10% tithe.

On the other end of the spectrum one of the organizers I support asks members to donate 0.1% of their post-tax income. I think it's noteworthy because nominally it sounds like such an achievable target that most people would struggle to argue they couldn't afford.

Me: a little more than 1% of my post-tax income, spread across three orgs - mostly going to mutual aid. It would buy 9-10 Big Macs here.

This was an off-handed remark I came across in Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts. I initially thought this might be another example of my incredible Canadian education leaving out our minimizing the significance of a socialist project. I don't know a ton about the Red River Rebellion but I've found it pretty difficult to find any other similar descriptions online of his group as socialists. Is this just a quick hot take by our boy Mikey Davis? Or is this a bird-brained statement?

Surely Hexbear knows.

I went for a run and missed it, and boy can you not use a search engine to find an Imane Khelif match rn

Don't do it https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1ei7arg/a_cool_guide_to_which_dictator_killed_the_most/

Get psyched

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown's_Body

I guess I respect some troops a bit

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1d6akq2/i_traveled_back_in_time_from_when_communism_20/ good thread

Great documentary from 2005 on war resistance during Vietnam, posing the thesis that the main reason the war closed was due to active and passive resistance at all levels.

Force any lib who calls you classist for criticizing US vets to watch this. These mfs were straight up killing their COs. Watch for free at 1080p here.

Boots Riley wrote the song Captain Sterling's Little Problem for the soundtrack (with Tom Morello), and it remains one of his best tracks.

They're making it too easy

Like they're so shamelessly blatant about who their reader base is nowadays I just can't

Here's the article if you want to read it I can't summon the energy https://web.archive.org/web/20240507210734/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/magazine/retire-early-saving.html