my boss said he doesn't personally post here but some others might. and my boss thinks it's cool that I'm a leftist, he's one too, apparently, and that a bunch of our coworkers are leftists. some of them might post here?? it's a finance firm -- the last place I'd expect this. how the fuck do they have a positive opinion of this place??
YOU HAVE TO TELL ME IF YOU POST HERE AND WHAT YOUR @ IS. THIS IS SO UNFAIR LEAVING ME ON THE HOOK LIKE THIS. DON'T MAKE ME POST PPB TO THE WORK SLACK AND SEE WHO LAUGHS.
(I use tree style tabs so they can read my tabs when I share my screen -- I didn't hide this place because who the fuck has heard of hexbear)
Damn, that's really cool, I'm actually in a similar situation. Found out some months back that my landlord uses Hexbear when I saw him pull up the site on his phone while I was requesting that he fix the broken heater and leaky roof in my apartment. I brought it up and instantly he seemed just as happy as I was to have randomly come across a Hexbear comrade in the wild. What are the odds, right? Anyway, turns out he's an ML! Now we hang out, watch Star Trek, and shoot the shit about theory over weed and beer on the weekends.
A couple weeks ago I was talking to my landlord about how hard it is to find leftist friends, and he got the idea to introduce me to a buddy of his, the one who actually introduced him to Hexbear in the first place. Turns out he's the police officer who usually handles the evictions here. I'd seen him around, but I had no idea he was actually cool. Dude's an anarchist and heavily involved with his union, really based. We invited him to get baked and hang out with us and we really hit it off. It's nice having an anarchist perspective for our theory talk, really fitting given we all use the same left unity website. Not gonna lie, it does get heated at times, and I'm still a bit apprehensive about him showing up to these hangouts in uniform with his service weapon, but I think that's just me being antsy.
Hope you can get something similar going with your boss. Hexbear is great and all, but there's no substitute to having good comrades to hang out with offline.
First time ive seen an image like this and thought "Please DONT be real"
There's a video of someone pulling up alongside the cop car so I'm pretty sure it is.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is actually something interesting to see - cop, landlord, banker, outright bourgeois - individuals might be leftists, as rare as that is, but they're still stuck acting according to the rules of capital and the bourgeois state.
Lord Jesus has abandoned us, for he is also terrified of what he has wrought.
Strange. It's as if people don't believe a cop could be a socialist revolutionary.
Going wild think king about a landlord who does so many evictions that they have an officer with an assignment to that landlord specifically
You've been hanging out with your Marxist landlord and their anarchist cop friend? Where am I? What timeline is this?
My property manager is an actual Maoist or at least a real comrade and was in a Maoist org in college and he literally saved me from getting evicted by his ex wife so stranger things and whatnot.
I don't know what is real anymore
I almost thought you were serious until you got to the anarchist cop. I genuinely just assumed your landlord had no self awareness
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ok maybe i'm a pessimist but this sounds like a warren voter to me
Warren hexbear poster? That seems less likely than a finance firm socialist somehow lol
I went to a Chapo live show once and saw a whole bunch of Beto bumper stickers that I don't think were ironic
Eh, you'd be surprised. I know a few leftists working in fintech, it pays damn good and the marginal evil-utility of arbitrage or something is pretty low compared to the kind of shit they'd be enabling at FAANG.
It doesn't surprise me, actually. I think people working in finance would know better than anyone else just how bullshit the whole system is.
I was a Ron Paul loving, fed-obsessed teenager. Reading a ton about economics and finance is what got me here, plus the post-Trump vibe check
I can't remember where it was, but I was listening to an interview with a left-wing guy who worked for some sort of stock buying/trading company. He said his strategy was to just assume all the hype was bullshit and things were only going to get worse. Apparently he performed so much better than everyone else that his boss just assumed he was doing illegal insider-trading stuff.
Gary Stevenson became top trader in the world at one point by realising that capitalism is a shit show and betting on crisis after crisis. Has some good YouTube videos and I think it's publishing a book this year.
Never trust anything a stock guy says to the public. Have you seen the stock market since post-2020 crash? Absurd gains
he had already left the industry by the time of the interview, but fair. second hand anecdotes should be treated as amusing fiction at best
Many/most reputable places that do this kind of trading have fixed whole market exposure, either long only or long/short (and a lot are long/short). The idea being that since it's mathematically impossible for the average hedge fund to beat the market in the long term by much (tbf, less so since the rise of index funds), they should at least be able to provide returns that aren't correlated to the stock market, as any idiot can get correlated returns.
Besides, everyone knows that just because things are getting worse doesn't mean number won't go up - you'd typically trade on the belief that number go up in some more sophisticated way, perhaps by predicting what the fed will do to make sure number go up, or how the books will be cooked to make sure number go up.
I think that's the guy, though I heard of him via interview in someone else's show. Can't remember which podcast it was.
trashfuture had a finance guy on who was kinda like that. just kept betting interest rates would stay low
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I know a friend who is a communist and organizes and they with no restraint worked on a project at a FAANG to allow the intelligence agency of another imperial core country to spy on their citizens
Also know an organizer who leads an org of ~70 people at a $XX billion dollar company making >1 mill per year lmao
Fucking hell America is never getting a revolutionary advance dawg
When something pops off in a city like NYC though there are enough people active that aren't even in orgs that they can make the police retreat, I have some hope for the future, a lot of young people got their first taste of a sort of action in 2020 and many are still down for the cause. The most serious revolutionaries aren't going to talk about it much.
because ostensibly leftist orgs are being run by finance vampires
Is labor aristocracy being in charge of organizations whose aim is to advocate for working class people a problem? I sure think people making six figures are likely to be disconnected from working people who actually struggle, so yes.
Hmm, I may have personal bias there but I don't think that earning a high salary excludes someone from having empathy for working people's struggle.
It doesn't exclude you but it certainly suggests someone else with direct knowledge and experience should be in charge. Their material conditions put completely different pressures on them than they do poorer comrades.
I don't necessarily disagree. I just think the thought process isn't good. Good people come from all places and we shouldn't restrict people from leadership positions based on income or wealth. Restrict them if they act in a way that limits the movement.
I will forever be suspect of any org with finance vampires anywhere near the levers of power. I'm a materialist, not an idealist.
god damn maybe I should have just taken that fukken military contractor job I was offered if that's where the bar is
just being cheeky, my current job makes some guy I don't know rich but at least I don't have murdered kids in Gaza on my conscience.
one that doesn't check in on the site very often and thinks voting for warren is being a hard-nosed realist lefty from way back
I gave hexbear to a kind of whacky old lady from the allotment who is extremely online due to being unemployed, she got caught up in all that qanon shit a while back you know the type, lurking hexbear has clearly been slowly turning her into a communist because her takes are getting better and better.
Indubitably. I'm certain there's at least one six (maybe even seven??) figure earning hexbear poster out there somewhere and yet, as of writing this, they still haven't sent me ANY money...??
If anyone wants to Venmo me like 3k I wouldn't mind. I'll even send you a nice post card.
look man, I'll take their money. I'm using it to provide free housing to as many comrades as I can.
Accountants will be useful in the socialist future. Have you read any of Rob Bryers books?
I haven't either but I came across one once. He seems to write about Marxism and accounting
so much jargon and ideology around the oldest trick in the book "gimme a dollar and i'll make it two dollars" "okay. here. can i have my two dollars now?" "who are you?"
It'd be so fucking funny if OP dropped a PPB to a bunch of crypto nerds expecting them to be in on the joke.
It would be funny if they somehow landed in the same finance firm as a certain controversial original Reddit ban Chapo discord admin
To the network engineer seeing hexbear.net being accessed on the company Wi-fi, coming here, and then radicalising the rest of the office,
it's a totally different group we have no say over. I'd have to make a work justification for it.
I have a lucrative business proposal for your boss
I'm not asking for a handout but an investment, I know my business idea would be successful but I lack the startup funds
This will get hexbear unblocked as it is now a site you use for work and I get to move out of my parent's house, it's a win win
we don't have control any of the money otherwise I'd be for this unironically :(. we can hire people though - DM me what you do and I might be able to find you a position.
Isn't the fediverse a really good way around this? I don't suppose that would block traffic to lemmy.ml with account that was subscribed to all of Hexbear.
my heart fucking skipped a beat when he brought this website up like I was about to get fired
It's pretty damning that you weren't. We haven't been posting hard enough I guess
browsing hexbear on the clock is praxis, especially in the wretched world of
no one yet has recognized my custom laptop sticker but if and when they do I will probably be like
because of my own personal contradictions regarding my privacy neuroses and wanting to wear my ideology and interests on my sleevebecause of my own personal contradictions regarding my privacy neuroses and wanting to wear my ideology and interests on my sleeve
:quark: Good initiative, Rom. Just so we're clear, you're not getting any extra latinum for it.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is me telling your boss he's a coward for not unionizing your team immediately after recognizing this information
It's weird how many lefties there are in finance. I once had a discussion with a quant on how economic planning would probably work and should be tried, and I once added someone on discord and found they were in the Hasanabi discord. I guess it makes sense when your job is to see past the bs.
No way! I work at Langley in the Internet police. I catch leftists who post too basedly and inject them with cringe takes and nano bots
Did it not tell you?! M'rurrr started acquiring a taste for bloodshed as well! We were told it's incredibly brave for venturing into corporeal forms of human suffering. It's really taking its journey towards being an avatar of carnage seriously and we at Langley are so happy to have its guidance as we operate.
is a great shibboleth.
