Hello as you’ve read from the title I’m a Palestinian who lives currently in the occupied territories of Palestine known as the West Bank ,my friend is a moderator here and he told me I should make a post introducing myself ,I once looked up “for Reddit but for leftists” and this is the site that I found ,anyways I personally love reading Manga ,Books,and Playing Chess
I am a Marxist Leninist ,can you believe the username Mohammed is not taken ? ,my friend told me that this space was too “white” but I didn’t think he was that right
Anyways Nice to meet you all
We also have a more mixed demographics over at the news megathread (Bulletin and News Discussions, pinned at the top) but that’s only if you’re interested in international geopolitics as that’s what most of the discussions there are about.
Ofc I am interested in those things ,I’m just sick of seeing the comments of reactionaries
Glad this exists
The reactionaries on the lemmyverse will often show up to do single drive-by comments here on Hexbear, but they never do it in the news mega because they fear our power and effortposting
Mostly standard NATO-loving liberals, because we've defederated from the explicitly fascist lemmy instances, but there are still assholes who make accounts to try to "troll", but it always just comes across as really sweaty and sad
HOW ARE THEY HERE 😭
FUCK NATO
IN JAHANAM INSHAALLAH
HOW ARE THEY HERE
Hexbear is a Lemmy instance. Lemmy is a federated and open-source alternative to Reddit. A federated social network is one that is composed of different instances that can communicate with each other. When a user joins lemmy, they choose an instance and register on it. They can then from that account on that instance communicate with the rest of the federated network. So besides hexbear.net, there's also lemmygrad.ml, lemmy.ml (where I am from, and you can see that despite us being on different instances we can still communicate with each other), and others. It works sort of like email. If you register on hotmail.com you can send emails to any user that has a hotmail.com account, but you can also send emails to someone using gmail.com, posteo.de, yandex.ru, sapo.pt or any other email provider.
The people mentioned are generally on other instances that do not have the same culture or rules as hexbear, you can however block those users or even entire instances if you want to.
You could make an account on Lemmy.world if you want to argue with a bunch of white NATO- loving Zionist Liberal Fascists. Lemmy.world and HexBear are removedd from each other because they don't like how leftist we are and we don't like how fascist they are.
Personally I hate seeing their inane discourse when I accidentally stumble upon it on a different account that can see Lemmy.world. I deal with too many racist white people in my everyday life as it is.
The good thing about being here is that you're surrounded by people who will help shout them down and/or ban them if they cross lines
the lemmy liberal posts are always fun because they are relatively few, and always get dogpiled by our commie posting supersoldiers
Great! I think the community has done a pretty good job putting down reactionaries in these spaces so there is no need to worry about reactionary comments.
Yeah, there's no denying the melanin deficiency here, but I think most of us are able and willing to recognize the privilege we have that comes along with being bleach demons. Speaking for myself at least, and from what I've seen it's true of much of the community around here, we are learning to stfu and listen when a person of color tells us we're wrong, misunderstand something, or are just being dumbass crackers. So feel free to put us in our place when that happens. I'd like to think that most of the community here will appreciate it rather than immediately get defensive and chauvinistic like most other chromatically bland spaces. Anyway, welcome!
Reddit is filled with crackers that don’t know their place 😆
And I mean It seriously here ,yk the racist comments they make like “The Middle East has been at war for centuries” (which are blatantly wrong)
Absolutely. Reddit is a cesspit of white western chauvinism. A lot of us here are banned from reddit for daring to point this fact out to them. We're not only anti-reddit around here, we frequently make fun of how ridiculous or disgusting the reddit fascists and libs are over in our dunk tank comm.
Good 👍
I wanna dunk on crackers ,especially Reddit liberal crackers
I was just telling him about this exact thing before he came here.
This space is, regrattably, extremely white lol
Idk if we've ever done an official poll, and even if we did we're anonymous so there no way to confirm results. But anecdotally I'd say this site seems a bit better than most English language online spaces. Still plenty of
but I'd say we're far better than 
Yep that place has a suffocating aura around it
I guess because a lot of users came from the ChapoTrapHouse podcast or whatever it is, attracts more white people
You have our full support whether your resistance is violent or nonviolent.
We don't have demographic data for obvious reasons, but yeah, we could stand to have more non white members join, but unfortunately that's the state of the western left in the US.
No. I'm responding to the op post. Their friend said this forum was too white.
It was an addendum to my original comment.
Hello, everyone, this is also a friend of mine so, please, err, be kind to 'em.
Welcome comrade. This site has a collection of extremely good emotes that you can use to decorate your posts, probably the best collection out there. Enjoy your stay!
Saludos Mohammed. The resilience and strength of the Palestinian resistance is being watched by those of us in the global south and has become a source of inspiration to many. Some of our governments may be beholden to Israel but there are many of us who wish to see Palestine be freed from colonial rule and oppression.
Salam and I'm glad you're here! I hope you know Palestine has the support and admiration of communists and anarchists all over the world. We're you're comrades and we'll all work together for a brighter future.
Also we're really gay and trans and we like memes and pictures of owls
I am a communist why are you telling me 😅
I know ofc
❤️ U
Welcome
we have our problems, but it's usually fun as long as we're not doing a pointless struggle session on something silly or confusing new users by speaking in weird terms that exist only on hexbear.Also we love posting
to lib/fash trolls that wander in trying to start bad faith fights with us (though some think we do it too much).Enjoy our oversized emojis
Nice to meet you!! ^^
You can check out communities on lemmygrad if you want, too.
Hexbear is anti sectarian and pro left unity, Lemmygrad is exclusively for Marxist-Leninists. You can easily subscribe to the instances over here by federation (I'm registered on Lemmygrad myself and I'm talking to you on Hexbear). You can check it out on https://lemmygrad.ml
You can subscribe to a lemmygrad community like so: https://hexbear.net/c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml you just need to add @lemmygrad.ml to the end of the URL and then click subscribe
Hexbear is pretty ML but we have many anarchist friends here too.
You don't need to join lemmygrad to see their content. hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are federated, so you can see lemmygrad.ml posts in the All tab. You can also subscribe to their communities, and then posts to those communities appear in your "Subscribed" feed.
You can also post or "cross-post" from here to Lemmygrad, if you want.
What’s the difference between it and here
We have a better sense of humour. But they're still cool.
I look forward to seeing you around comrade. What sorts of books and manga? Chess is interesting but I am lousy at it, anyone who knows how to play that without losing miserably every time is someone to respect...
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Not much of a romance Manga reader but I will read anything if I’m slightly interested ,for books I like pretty much everything that isn’t self help ,I don’t think there’s something inherently wrong with them but they just don’t interest me ,I like fiction generally
Lately for manga I've been reading Aria (in Japanese!) and Akane-banashi, for books I've tended to read non-fiction usually about history or linguistics. Romance and self-help aren't really things I'm too fond of either, but romance has maybe been growing on me a little more lately...
Aria and Aqua are the same series (Aqua is 2 volumes and Aria is directly after it)
Just a heads up you probably know that already
Yeah, but I never could figure out why it would change names like that...
Having trouble sleeping?
No it’s Ramadan and I woke up for “Sohor” [eating before the dawn addan]
See, I'm a vampire hiding amongst the foolish mortal humans, so I always have to check to see if somebody up at this hour might be one of my own! 🦇
So you're like one hour ahead of me, which would mean that dawn would've probably just broken right about now. Was it a nice meal you had?
Welcome! I hope we aren't too weird and you enjoy the place.
Don’t worry I’m weird too otherwise I would not be here
Palestine will never die, partly because there is someone with Dr. Tenma as their pfp living in the West Bank.
The best enemies to
loverstenuous allies arc in anything.
from a comrade Down South
