Best of luck to our witch comrades I suppose

  • BeanBoy [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    You complain about hexes and yet you post on hexbear.net :very-intelligent:

  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    These people could do literally anything else and it would be a more productive use of their time

    Read a book ffs

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Why haven't they done mass hexing for the last 20 years? Why aren't they doing it in the House of Saud? Who do they expect to step into the void if their hex works, do they just want warlordism again?

    These witches are phonies who don't really give a shit about Afghanis

    • Rem [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      It's just protestants praying about what's in the news because it makes them feel better. It doesn't hurt anything but it's not helpful either, just people coping with their powerlessness over the injustice of the world. We do the same by posting tbh.

      • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, I'm just being silly. It's fun to take the idea of mass hexing extremely seriously.

        • Rem [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Don't get me wrong, it would be fun if the driving force of history wasn't material conditions :marx-goth:

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            It would make things a bit easier if we could go full FALGSC by making The Culture novels super popular.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Can't hurt. A Facebook friend of mine visited the airport when Trump visited my state and hexed Airforce One. Trump got covid shortly thereafter. Obviously this is because of what my friend did and not because Trump is Trump.

    She's also an indigenous commie activist and pretty cool.

    • Rem [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      My dad has to wear a specific shirt when the [local football team] play and it makes them perform better

      • mittens [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah I don't think ritual and superstition are as easily escapable as atheists want to believe, that's a good insight

    • kimilsungist [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      unironically believe most of the mayan ancient cultures histories and magic and what not.

      • duderium [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I want to say there's room for that in Marxism via base and superstructure but I also sound like I'm jerking myself off right now so...

        • kimilsungist [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          well the indigenous americans that get their land back will absolutely bring that back into the culture.

          SWCC? Juche? Its the same sort of stuff. Flavoring your socialist ideology is unironically the only way to do it.

  • NewAccountWhoDis [she/her]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    But be careful, the Taliban are fighting back with their own magic https://www.reddit.com/r/witchcraft/comments/p6nc4e/psa_be_careful_when_bewitching_the_taliban/

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      My husband's new friend has a wife with a wall of wands in their basement.

      I was sitting there across the room for like an hour thinking they were unpaired fancy chopsticks and was wondering where the other half was.

    • 01100011101001111100 [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Bezos is rich enough to hire magical protection, same thing with Trump. They were warning people not to hex Trump because it would bounce back to them, lol. I guess he got covid and had to walk around breathing with difficulty for a bit and wonder if he was gonna die like stan cheera.

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    3 years ago

    those witches better be careful don't the Taliban got big man Allah on their side? all that monotheistic prayer probably keeps the pagan hexes away

  • machinegobrrrr [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I don't understand this thread. Is this any different from a religious person praying for the wellbeing of Afghans? If you go into islam/christianity subs you can find similar posts, are we supposed to mock them too?

    They're not hurting anyone (except the Taliban maybe), there's no need to tip the fedoras at them

    • SoyfaceKillah [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      i'll be the bad guy here -- yeah, dudes larping as "witches" is lame, and is qualitatively different from the lived in, communal traditions of the great religions.

      and it's super fucking lame to, ya know, even assuming you have nonmaterial power of the material world (you don't), that you would use this in a kulturkampf against the "bad muslims" for having the wrong kind of traditions or whatever.

      like this community is presumably against western chauvinism, but it should make exceptions when the enforcement of western practice is made by dudes sending hexes? sorry no -- this is mega-cringe.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        yeah, dudes larping as “witches” is lame, and is qualitatively different from the lived in, communal traditions of the great religions.

        So religions are illegitimate until they've been around long enough, at which point they retroactively become legitimate?

    • NewAccountWhoDis [she/her]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Honestly I do this more like a continuation of the whole "Witches hexed the moon!" thing and not to just mock them too much. The pagan community are our allies too overall, just that I still think the concept of "We're waging a magic battle against the Taliban" as pretty humorous.

      That's why I put it in memes and not dunk tank I don't want to be too harsh to them for the most part it's just powerless people trying to find some control in the world.

      I wasn't even really expecting the replies to be as harsh as some of these are.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      i think online leftists are very sensible to people not doing praxis, i mean it's the usual and easiest dunk for online lefties so it's a sensible spot