Hello all! @sweet_pecan@hexbear.net is taking a well-deserved break so I’ll be posting the mega in the foreseeable future. How are we all doing? I truly can’t believe it’s almost 2025.
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Mood from whoever posted this a while ago
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[ Last updated December 20 ]
(work in progress 🚧)Fr, it do be like that.
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People pushing weight loss in the fatphobia call-out thread
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We had a poll back in the r/CTH days and it was overwhelmingly white. Things may have changed since then, but I’d be surprised if hexbear wasnt still solid majority white
I attempted to respond in good faith just in case it might help convince some people to self-crit but seriously, the fact that so many people were willing to entertain that nonsense gives me very little hope for the site.
I find it really frustrating to read that thread and see you running in circles arguing points that already should be well understood. No, nobody here wants to make a website where cis men or white people aren’t allowed. I don’t know why hundreds of comments are necessary to tilt at windmills while we put words in marginalized users’ mouths. I saw the inverse happening much less frequently (and at this point I’m not even mad when people put words in the mouths of the users trying to play devil’s advocate or do debate pervertry; if you don’t want people to put words in your mouth, say what you mean, don’t launder it with rhetorical tricks).
Pretty cringe shit honestly. Guess we should stop saying death to America because not all Americans are bloodthirsty imperialists.
I know we’ve recently talked about having a bookclub, but seeing how few people have checked in on the Will to Change book club makes me think that there are many people that just refuse to confront whatever biases they are holding onto.
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seeing how few people have checked in on the Will to Change book club
If it helps, I’ve been reading it and just kinda lurking around the thread. I’m a few chapters behind so I haven’t contributed anything. I’d bet money there’s more people reading it as part of the club that haven’t posted anything. That includes people who browse the site but don’t have accounts.
If you did another book club, you’d still get plenty of people reading something they otherwise wouldn’t. It’s hard organizing stuff online because that’s the nature of doing stuff online. People get flakey about stuff. It’s the reason I don’t play any tabletop games online over Webcam. Hard enough meeting up in real life. Online? People disappear into the void all the time for whatever reason and are never heard from again.
Yeah, I figure there’s plenty of people like that. Heck I haven’t posted in every single thread there has been so far. But seeing how there’s people on thid site that still hold onto these misogynist/patriarchal views is disheartening.
But seeing how there’s people on thid site that still hold onto these misogynist/patriarchal views is disheartening.
Sad, because one of our Latino tovarshis @Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net fell to this brainworm and got
I stayed out of that thread because I’m a cishet he/him. Maybe I have brainworms, but it seemed pedantic? Obviously “he/him” isn’t a gender. It’s also obvious when someone says “he/hims are not beating the misogyny allegations” what they’re referring to.
One of the issues with patriarchy is it benefits men, regardless of other oppression that occurs or whether men want to take part in reinforcing it. Trans men, gay men, cishet men, men of color, etc. etc. are going to have those biases because patriarchy will force it on them. We have to be consciously thwarting those biases and sometimes that’s easier when you’re part of another marginalized group compared to being a cishet WASP.
And again, maybe my cishet brainworms prevent me from seeing what the deal is. I just don’t take it personally if people want to vent about the awfulness of men. I know what they mean and what they’re referring to. They aren’t accusing me personally of sexual harassment, for example. They are referring to the general behavior of men to sexually harass people. The only thing I can do is listen and then tell other men saying and doing shitty things to shut the fuck up and stop it.
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i am so, so done with this site. feeling very tempted to leave but i’ve got to hang out for the sake of my em_poc and fat and disabled comrades but ughhhhh
Oh… feels hard on ye, tovarshi… hope ye do good
Lmao what are these? They look friend-shaped but I doubt you’re supposed to take them as pets.
omg they form cuddle puddles to sunbathe
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
aww
Awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
For a bloomer moment — I’ve met several awesome communists of color this past year. Hoping to get to talk to them even more next year!
I’ve met several awesome communists of color this past year. Hoping to get to talk to them even more next year!
That’s the Global South for you, khizuo!
Apologies if this is inappropriate or too judgemental, but I think it’s a huge shame that frauddog deleted null’s account. I can’t speak for everybody, but I’m more than willing to share a space with someone who can show the necessary growth from having signed to be an imperialist soldier. But by deleting the account now the community will think of void as a coward and will be suspicious of any new users who are appropriately combative to cracker nonsense on this site. If you’re reading this, and plan on ever coming back, please say who you are and do some self crit. We need your posts, but we also need some transparency.
Agreed. This goes back to a few of the recent struggle sessions, but I had pointed out a couple of times that if someone can show actual growth from their past selves then that’s someone I’d be willing to accept. No one has a straight path to becoming a comrade. Many people here, including myself, used to be Democrats/liberals and have their views over time. There are people here who used to be reactionary and have been able to move on from that time.
Wait what happened? Why did null delete their account? Sounds like I missed something.
Null had talked about being in the US military before, but it hadn’t really been discussed much. But when null called an user here a settler/cracker (can’t remember which, comment is deleted now) and that user replied by saying they live in a country that the US military invaded frauddog deleted the account.
Ah. Seems like an extreme reaction, but okay. Thanks!
Some dipshit submitted a FOIA request on Hexbear. Imagine not being socialized to view any willful interaction with pigs as snitching.
I thought they were joking in the title until I opened the thread and saw the screenshot. Holy fuck. The person who made the request is totally that fucking kid who reminded the teacher to assign homework.
We joke about feds on here, but until we actually find proof of feds, you don’t need to do anything that would attract their attention.
And then the site went down for hours…
They act as if it’s over reaction or isn’t a big deal because they think about themselves, there’s a few people from Gaza posting here, “best” case scenario the site gets shut down for funding terrorism and they lose a platform that donates money to them, worst case they get targeted by the occupying forces. The same applies to all other handicapped/poc/unhoused people in the mutual aid community.
there’s a few people from Gaza posting here, “best” case scenario the site gets shut down for funding terrorism and they lose a platform that donates money to them
If this were true they would have shut down tumblr, there are far more Palestinians there and the fundraising amount is not even close.
Tumblr is not the same as Hexbear, they vote for Kamala Harris over there.
There are a not insignificant amount of actual communists, many of which are more principled and ideologically coherent than the average hexbear user. Also far less USAmerican and white
Sure, then let’s send the site to more U.S. groups, have the CIA and the NSA let ISIS check it out too, it doesn’t matter, a lot aren’t ideologically coherent people unlike the Tumblr that will never get taken down by them, I’m sure these groups know the difference between principled and non-principled leftists and won’t do anything, they historically only messed with perfect communists who memorized Das Kapital in 4 languages, and even if they do it doesn’t matter as long as it’s not your life in danger.
reporting a small trans-marxist reading group to the local PD as a “joke” since they weren’t doing much anyway
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How does a person respond to being called out for talking like a settler by calling the person who called them a settle “an invader”, I geniunely couldn’t understand that part.
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Uh. What. Jesus Christ what utter lunacy.
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What happen? I miss it and do not know how to find it. I will get my stick!
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Wishing all my POC comrades a wonderful new year ahead.
Hate feeling like I’m part of the most hated racial demographic in the west, and I know other POC feel isolated and alienated like this but I’m always looking for solidarity with people IRL but never seem to get it.
Like, I’m sure my mental health plays into but I feel like I’m always alone on an island and have to fend for myself. My race gets it from all sides and unfortunately people within my race, at least in the US, are for the most part mentally colonized by white supremacy which is further alienatinv because I can’t seem to relate to any of them
Feel like I am literally everything and anything (negative) to everybody. I’m either looked down on because I’m perceived as too poor, or an uppity n- for being percieved as too rich and educated because of ethnicity. My people are either taking away good jobs or they’re just poor leeches on society depending on who you talk to. I’m either a person capable of SA and murder or an effete weakling. I’m assumed to be a criminal or a literal member of the ruling elite. I’m a nerd that gets racially abused in typical nerd circles or a n- that gets abused in in other circles
It feels like I’m never part of the in-group in any situation. I’m always someone’s enemy. It would be relieving if this was ‘all in my head’ and I’m only subjecting myself to these narratives as a coping/defense mechanism meant to not only protect me but feed my own ego but I don’t want a life of estrangement, and loneliness.
I’m a minority within a minority. A child of immigrants to a country that is itself a colony to an imperial power.
My upgringing could have been a lot worse and the same goes for my life, but I swear to god if I make it through life without doing serious harm to myself it will be a small miracle.
I can relate to this a lot, with islamophobia in the place of the more overt racism you face. All my family are libs or deeply reactionary Muslim chuds, there’s so few progressive pan-Arab forces left
On the one hand i have the ignorant racist kkkrackers and then on the other I have Islamists.
I can relate to this a lot, with islamophobia in the place of the more overt racism you face. All my family are libs or deeply reactionary Muslim chud
On the one hand i have the ignorant racist kkkrackers and then on the other I have Islamists.
Like attracts like, and I guess the West attracts the gusanos that Nasser rightly cracked down upon.
vent post: family issues, ableism, anti-masking, anti-veganism
Really hoping that I can move out in 2025 because my mom is increasingly pushing me to do things that are detrimental to my health. She thinks that my physical disability is mainly a mental issue (it’s not) and that I can overcome it by exercising (I can’t, my condition gets worse if I overexert myself) and that I need to stop being vegan to cure it (not going to happen). Also none of my family are COVID-cautious and my mom is forcing me to take off my mask around them just because she doesn’t like seeing me wearing a mask.
Moving out is going to be a struggle though. Last year I temporarily moved out (well, there’s a bit more to it than that but yeah) but eventually had to return because I didn’t have a good plan, I was jumping around and it was tough. And with my disability worsening significantly this past year it’s going to be even harder. Maybe even impossible. But I have to try.
So yeah, I’m going into the new year with a lot of stress. I don’t know what’s going to happen, really. All I know is living with my parents is not sustainable in the long term.
Wow, you have some kooky parents
Diaspora personal politics do be like that…
Diaspora politics are fascinating, lol. My mom literally sounds like a Maoist at times (I’m becoming increasingly convinced that she actually is one) but then will also say reactionary things. My dad on the other hand is just a lib, he literally stopped caring about COVID before it became socially acceptable to do so.
AWA AWAAAAAAAA!!! :3 🎉🎊✨🎇🎆
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In the relatively short time I have been on this website, I do not think a week has passed without at least one “struggle session”.
I don’t have much substantial to say but just as a reminder (since the tags are no longer visible) I believe frauddogg’s pronouns are null/void and none/username if I’m remembering correctly
Can confirm.
Thanks, I was trying to remember when I was posting about what happened.
In remembrance of some of the former EMPOC users of the previous year (correct if I’m wrong)
UlyssesT - deleted account for OPSEC issues under new Trump admin
Al_Sham - deleted account due to emotional turmoil resulting from the fall of Assadist Syria
frauddogg - deleted account out of shame of being exposed as ex-U.S soldier, after calling funkYankkkees “settler”
@Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net - banned due to misogyny
@Pluto@hexbear.net - banned due to
reason: Repeated violations and refusal to self crit
Neptium
Maorites
Afters
Hopefully this year is a year of recovery
Wasn’t HelltakerHomosexual Hawaiian? Or was she just someone from Hawaii, not someone who’s ethnically Hawaiian?
Idk… I didn’t ask her ethnicity, let alone knew her, but you can add to this, if ye want…
I’m not so sure either. I could’ve sworn she was.
I actually didn’t know that UlyssesT was EMPOC.
What a year. It’s been very turbulent on this site.
afters is gone now too…
