First things first. Hexbear makes my life bearable sometimes. I don’t use an account because I don’t like how addicted to social media I get sometimes and I’m afraid of pissing people off, because although I consider myself an ML, I come from a very conservative family where I unknowingly say bad things about idpol.
Anyways. As a very drunk man (bad very bad day first time drinking in months - not an alcoholic), do you think the US government monitors hexbear? Like if I browse it without a VPN do you think I become a POI, serious, if not stupid, question?
Again, thank you for being a shining beacon in my day surrounded by people who justify genocide, political violence against the global south, and endless enterprise. I really am grateful even if I’m not the best Marxist. You’ve taught me about donbas, about the struggles of north Korea, the toils of Iran among so much more
Edit: As a still drunkman someone asked me about idpol. I uh can't see ur messages here but I can on my Lemmy client.
uh to make myself clear not in an Obama way - I find nick Mullen stuff funny. It makes me feel bad because of the punching down so i avoid it. and I might do things that are unintentionally mean, forgetting to use the correct pronouns (like genuinely I hardly meet with my enby friends so my mind just defaults to calling someone female presenting she rather than the preferred they. I do try to correct but sometimes I'm so absent minded that I'd rather not upset anyone.
I am trying to self crit so I'm OK with being dunked on I guess. But I isolate BC I don't wanna upset ppl. Its harder to express my intentions online when I mess up. @lemmmygradwontallowme
The government probably monitors Hexbear but also probably doesn't care because there is basically zero left wing violence in the US and hasn't been for decades. We're not a real threat to them in any capacity
They need left wing scapegoats to both sides things sometimes. Also they're fascist cops and hate us for existing.
for internet shitpost sites like this it's probably low priority but will still get flags on certain things likely. Aside from that though this isn't accurate. Uhuru have been being COINTELPRO'd as we speak and the radical leaders of BLM movement before the corporate billionaire funded NGO BLM(tm) took over were all murdered with no suspects being named by the pigs. Darren Seals was found shot in a burning car; and he was railing against the opportunist liberal BLM financed by Soros-and-co. that was highjacking the movement and having the media fixate on them, while he was also organizing Black voters to vote Republicans in to shake the Democrats into listening. In the 2016-2017 protests and charlottesville and such there was serious surveillance and repression of leftists as much as there was also FBI infiltration of right wing orgs. The pigs even murdered a few. They also more recently pressed RICO charges against the 'stop cop city' protestors to round any and all of their supporters up on racketeering charges and were doing deep surveillance about that; to say nothing of the surveillance and repression over Palestine protests and anti-zionist groups including in college campuses.
Socialism is never not a threat to the ruling class. And all left-wing activities are inherently antagonistic to capital (anti-imperialism, labor organizing, tenant unions, revolutionary groups, prison organizing, prison abolition and police defunding, etc). The pigs regularly brutalize torture and kill socialists and liberation organizers who are imprisoned. Kevin Rashid Johnson just participated in a hunger strike for over a month earlier this year over it, and their abuses of him and preventing his medical care. And socialism has grown exponentially in the last decade, more than the last 35 years. They're not blind to this.