• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    63
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    I don't care if this doxes me, it's still wild. One of my prominent, public facing social media accounts used to have a profile picture of me laying flowers at Marx and Jenny's grave. It's very obvious from the picture what I'm doing and who's grave I'm at since the tombstone is shaped like Marx's head and there's a big engraving saying "Workers of all lands unite." Family members used to come to my account too to reminisce or catch up or whatever.

    This was my picture for years. I've also been pretty vocal for over a decade now. My own mother didn't realize I'm a communist until this last Christmas where I said hope the next time Jeff Bezos gets in a rocketship that it blows up on the launch pad. Like she audibly gasped and I guess the two cogs in her head finally turned. Straight up, "Wait, are you a communist?!" in a shocked voice

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
      hexbear
      39
      3 months ago

      I had sort of the reverse with a co-worker recently where I told him he sounded like a communist because all his beliefs were basically that and he was shocked to find that out