I've gotten to meet a few people from here irl and they were all awesome, I'd love to meet more of our comrades and I expect there's a number of us who feel that way. Not would it be cool to hang out but as much as we wish it were posting isn't praxis however meeting offline makes it much easier to actually accomplish something. My thought was either a sticky thread or new com. People who are down to meet can post their nearest major city and then handle everything else through DMs, that should keep the doxing to a minimum. Anyone else interested in the idea or am I just being dumb?
Oh what so I wear my "female body inspector" t-shirt and everyone thinks I'm a cop?
That said I did meet some real cool comrades when I went out to Pine Ridge, just be careful folks.
I’m super paranoid about the idea tbh.
But if you see a person dressed like Garfield outside your local city hall on new years carrying a vegan lasagna and demanding the abolition of mondays shoot me a dm.
Yeah everyone I've met has been pretty cool. If someone posts in /c/chicago I would go to a protest / bar / gun range. Dunno what leftists do outside of "work" but I enjoy hanging out and the cross-pollination effects of like "I joined this org it's good" are productive.
I don't care about
anymore I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings. Fuck it we ballIt's not just jokes lol it's something you just kinda accept if you do any Cool Shit. If I wasn't already under the microscope I probably am now after going to Pine Ridge
I haven't done anything so it must be stolen valor from somebody I know. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little proud
I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings
you’ve done more than just post online presumably?
Honestly not much more. I first requested records about myself and got "no responsive records", and then remembered to include the boilerplate about cross-references + administrative records + etc and got the blanket denial. So I figure that I'm named in an investigation into somebody else. Maybe they grabbed my email from Pilsen Community Books, which the FBI is/was surveiling over their involvement in pro-abortion and anti-cop-city movements. The Intercept ran an article about it awhile ago. Or maybe some people I know do Cool Shit and have wisely not told me. I filed an appeal so I might find out.
- . Just join an org, you'll meet at least a few of us that way.
Yea anybody in a city where there would be other Hexbears willing to meet up would for sure have a decent organizing presence
Though I will say the idea of befriending people you organize with low-key feels like office teammate friends
Complaining about an org's culture is one of the strongest bonding activities you can have. Just ask all the ML/MLM/Lux/CCs/Syn/etc stuck in the local Trot org over the years 1980-2015.
Shitting on Trots isn't even slightly controversial everybody hates them haha
Eh, I know a bunch of ones that are pretty good (China Meiville for example is great). And Trotsky is well worth reading, particularly his pre-1925 stuff.
But the stereotype of the reflexively anti-AES squabbling splitting newspaper club exists for a reason.
They really need to chill with the newspaper pushing especially in events/actions they didn't even help organize
British Trots turning up to a cost of living protest and handing out single piece of toilet paper sized pamphlets covered in tiny writing that are a diatribe about how China is imperialist and Stalin betrayed the Russian revolution to impoverished single parents attending their first political event like:
Not to say that leftists shouldn't be an influence at more moderate events but they always go about it in the worst way lmao
We should be more specific here. As I see it pushing their unrelated publications / promoting their org unprompted is a kind of tailism, a tendency to solely insert oneself in unfolding events. But that isn't to say that we should escew agitation as a whole as the opposite pole of tailism is opportunism. Rather, agitation, pamphleting at a protest, etc. should be focused on connecting the specific issue to a broader revolutionary line. In a sentence: 'from the masses, to the masses.'
Definitely agree. Other ML and Maoist parties generally give out pamphlets promoting directly related open forums and events which is great but Trots just try to sell their monthly issue newspaper of like 20 pages to any event they show up to
I mean that's fair, but in my experience they're also the nly ones who actually show up consistently.
This is not actually true, the vast majority of posters do not join orgs and the vast majority of organizers do not post outside of mainstream social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tiktok).
I joined a local org with 30+ members and none of them have ever even heard of Lemmy before
I'd say it depends on the org. This is a bit uncharitable to all involved but some orgs are described as having the vibe of an IRL reddit meetup (often DSA in my experience). If you go to those ones I bet you'd find a few posters. I also met a few old r/CTH users at a PSL meetup. But yeah if you're just trying to find like-minded people join an org. Shop around to figure out whether you like the vibe, which imo is more important that whether you totally agree with them at this stage of left-wing development in western countries. You should actually look forward to meeting your comrades, not have an "ugh I would rather..." attitude.
I can't really speak for other people, but I was involved with orgs before I joined Hexbear. Also, maybe considering joining more orgs and meeting more people. I feel like joining one of the national and well known orgs would have a better chance of meeting one of us. If I remember right a few orgs are either/or, but the IWW should be chill. About 80,000 people voted for PSL in the last presidential, and there are like 1,000 consistent Hexbears + Lemmygraders, so if you meet above 80 IRL people there is a good chance at least one of them is a Lemmy user.
good luck finding me as i am a maoist guerrilla sleeper agent living under a pile of leaves in an undisclosed forest posting from a satellite phone
I'm like that, but I'm a maoist gorilla eepy agent and I'm posting from a warm bed currently honk mimimimimi-ing
I'd prefer my fellow posters to not know the truth about feral and unhinged I am IRL.
I feel that
Then again, I am basically a raccoon that was cursed by a witch to turn into a human
i look forward to meeting the 4 other people here in my country lol
Doxxing.
That said, most of the people I have met who are posters are likeable but just a bit unstable (or very unstable). I expect that I would get the same review but perhaps without the "likeable" part.
I met one hexbear to sell em weed and they thought that everyone here liking China was a bit and I peaced out.
Otherwise nice though
Maybe its cause I've never dealed before but doing this seems like the easiest way to get caught in a sting
I messaged someone a year ago after he implied he was a college student in my state. We exchanged instagrams and he turned out to be over 40 at a community college (which is cool, I assumed he'd be my age but was still happy to have a hexbear for an insta mutual)
Then he started flirting with me, although when I told him I wasn't interested in that he stopped. But then he asked if we could meet up, and for me to "prove I'm actually 19 and not a minor" because "it's hard to tell with people around your age" or something. Told him pretty definitively that I didn't want to meet up, and blocked him after he was like "you sure? Just looking for a communist friend, and I have free beer"
Nahh but they stopped using this site later anyways. Not a major user of this site in the first place
Hearing a story like that, makes me wonder if we're not bullying hard enough. Sorry you had to deal with that.
It would be nice to casually meet like-minded people in the real world. But I'm rather loose with location opsec on this account so I'm likely not representative of the response you'd get.
That said, if anyone in the rough vicinity of Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada (or Toronto on weekends) ever wants to casually hang out, shoot me a DM. I am losing my fucking mind working in an office full of men from mennonite backgrounds. These nitwits think Justin Trudeau is a communist atheist. I desperately need people in my personal life who have at least some sort of grasp on reality.
These nitwits think Justin Trudeau is a communist atheist.
All of the conservatives I know think anyone who isn't an extremist Evangelical is a commie. It's so infuriating, it's like they live on another planet.
What industry/field do you work in? I've never heard of the fact that Mennonites had any significant presence near Toronto
Edit: nvm, think I figured it out
Driving through sw ontario like "how the hell did i end up in little house on the prairie". I visit norfolk county once a year and lmao.
Social mixer between ClA, FBl, CSlS, Ml6, Ml5, and local police departments
We should just come up with a uniform and hand gestures to identify each other. I propose tropical shirts and the "okay" sign.
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