That's right folks the year is drawing to a close so it's time to rehash last year's bit, nominate, and vote for your 2024 Hexies! These are the Hexbears you think exemplify what it means to be a real Hexbear hexbear-retro

Here's how it works:

  1. Pick from the below categories

  2. Nominate someone for that category by tagging them

  3. If you are nominated respond to the nomination to accept it

  4. Most upbeared accepted nomination in each category wins!

What do you win? The esteem of your fellow Hexbearian comrades of course. What more could you want?

The categories for this year's 2024 Hexie awards are:

  1. Best Effortposter of 2024

  2. Most likely to be called a tankie on a blocked instance

  3. Most comradely Hexbear

This year we have a special bonus category to commemorate some of the new comms we added:

  1. Best bad poster (this is not the worst poster, this is the best poster that is bad at posting)

We got a lot of new posters this year and have a lot of great comrades visiting from federated instances, feel free to participate too! We love all of our great posters, don't we folks?

Alright comrades that's it from me, be sure and do your democratic duty and vote for your 2024 Hexie winners and congrats in advance to the winners of this highly coveted and prestigious award!

And for one small trip down memory lane, here's last year's Hexies! https://hexbear.net/post/1477104

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This bit was fun last year so I hope folks enjoy doing this bit again this year too, as a bit though

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    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      8 days ago

      I got a phantom tag so I choose to imagine a nomination 🙏 I accept the award for best Telegram reposter because these comrades deserve the Effort award

      @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net for obvious reasons, @Z_Poster365@hexbear.net for keeping up the fight against liberalism , @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net for the technical effort posts, and @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for being the only news head also on the LatAm beat

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      9 days ago

      (What did I post to deserve this?)

      I lurk the news mega sometimes and I enjoy your posts so it popped into my head to be fair.

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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        9 days ago

        You know, I never really thought of myself as an effortposter or a tankie, I'm actually seriously kinda lib, not in my politics but I suppose in my behavior, compared to others on this platform bleh

        You know, I feel the type to kinda

        To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.

        Plus, I don't really like to go on long struggle seshs and all

        That being said, I guess if someone's anti-communist, I'd step up to be the response against them

        • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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          9 days ago

          I think you would get a lot out of Liu Shaoqi's How to be a Good Communist. It's easy to take Mao's meaning to dogmatism and endlessly debatebro, but that's not what he means exactly. Shaoqi frames it in a way that means you shouldn't struggle for the struggle, especially if it is meaningless, but to be firm yet gentle for those who mean well and are willing to listen. Struggle sessions can be very useful if they are a matter of principles, and thus cannot be avoided, but aren't always productive if they aren't about principles.