Hello comrades and welcome to the fourth improvement megathread of May! There is one more week left in May, let's make it count.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
  • Do you have any goals for next week?
  • Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
  • If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
  • Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

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Good luck with your goals! unity

  • ratboy [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier, which was recommended to me by a few comrades here as an easier to disgest version of Capital. I bought a bunch of Marxist lit that I meant to dive into like a year ago and just started getting into it now lol.

    I've been off of work for a month and a half; it's been amazing. We are bargaining a union contract and I'm one of 6 people who have been doing literally everything for the union effort and it makes me wanna cry and throw up to have to get back into it (been going hard since March 2023). Management is a fuck so there's constant new bullshit "restructuring" goin on and I think I should maybe just find another job. Eeeeeh

    Also I'm stoked you'll be able to cuddle your pets soon! Always the best medicine

    • BlameButtigieg [any]
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      6 months ago

      Oh wow what a surprise, a Jacobin writer, didn't see that coming. Do any of you even know that magazine receives money from a major Zionist fund?

      • ratboy [they/them]
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        6 months ago

        I can't tell if the first part of your comment is sarcastic or not, and no I didn't know that about Jacobin nor did I know she was a writer for them prior to purchasing the book

    • moonlake [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      So you're trying to tell me that you're both reading theory AND doing praxis? Folks, we have found the One True Leftist on this website! sankara-salute fidel-salute rat-salute-2

      Good luck with your union effort, I hope it's successful! solidarity

      • ratboy [they/them]
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        6 months ago

        Thank you so much Care-Comrade I'm trying hard, used to be full of piss n vinegar in terms of being real militant/public with our contract but at this point it feels like we need to capture that CBA. Other departments in my agency recently secured their union contracts and got pretty favorable raises so we're hoping we won't need to fight too much longer to get something similar. Gotta remember that it's for the good of everyone and the folks coming in in the future