Hello all! @sweet_pecan@hexbear.net is taking a well-deserved break so I'll be posting the mega in the foreseeable future. How are we all doing? I truly can't believe it's almost 2025.
REMEMBER, EM POC ONLY!!!
Hate feeling like I’m part of the most hated racial demographic in the west, and I know other POC feel isolated and alienated like this but I’m always looking for solidarity with people IRL but never seem to get it.
Like, I’m sure my mental health plays into but I feel like I’m always alone on an island and have to fend for myself. My race gets it from all sides and unfortunately people within my race, at least in the US, are for the most part mentally colonized by white supremacy which is further alienatinv because I can’t seem to relate to any of them
Feel like I am literally everything and anything (negative) to everybody. I’m either looked down on because I’m perceived as too poor, or an uppity n- for being percieved as too rich and educated because of ethnicity. My people are either taking away good jobs or they’re just poor leeches on society depending on who you talk to. I’m either a person capable of SA and murder or an effete weakling. I’m assumed to be a criminal or a literal member of the ruling elite. I’m a nerd that gets racially abused in typical nerd circles or a n- that gets abused in in other circles
It feels like I’m never part of the in-group in any situation. I’m always someone’s enemy. It would be relieving if this was ‘all in my head’ and I’m only subjecting myself to these narratives as a coping/defense mechanism meant to not only protect me but feed my own ego but I don’t want a life of estrangement, and loneliness.
I'm a minority within a minority. A child of immigrants to a country that is itself a colony to an imperial power.
My upgringing could have been a lot worse and the same goes for my life, but I swear to god if I make it through life without doing serious harm to myself it will be a small miracle.
I can relate to this a lot, with islamophobia in the place of the more overt racism you face. All my family are libs or deeply reactionary Muslim chuds, there’s so few progressive pan-Arab forces left
On the one hand i have the ignorant racist kkkrackers and then on the other I have Islamists.
I can relate to this a lot, with islamophobia in the place of the more overt racism you face. All my family are libs or deeply reactionary Muslim chud
On the one hand i have the ignorant racist kkkrackers and then on the other I have Islamists.
Like attracts like, and I guess the West attracts the gusanos that Nasser rightly cracked down upon.
Apologies if this is inappropriate or too judgemental, but I think it's a huge shame that frauddog deleted null's account. I can't speak for everybody, but I'm more than willing to share a space with someone who can show the necessary growth from having signed to be an imperialist soldier. But by deleting the account now the community will think of void as a coward and will be suspicious of any new users who are appropriately combative to cracker nonsense on this site. If you're reading this, and plan on ever coming back, please say who you are and do some self crit. We need your posts, but we also need some transparency.
Wait what happened? Why did null delete their account? Sounds like I missed something.
Agreed. This goes back to a few of the recent struggle sessions, but I had pointed out a couple of times that if someone can show actual growth from their past selves then that's someone I'd be willing to accept. No one has a straight path to becoming a comrade. Many people here, including myself, used to be Democrats/liberals and have their views over time. There are people here who used to be reactionary and have been able to move on from that time.
I don't have much substantial to say but just as a reminder (since the tags are no longer visible) I believe frauddogg's pronouns are null/void and none/username if I'm remembering correctly
In remembrance of some of the former EMPOC users of the previous year (correct if I'm wrong)
UlyssesT - deleted account for OPSEC issues under new Trump admin
Al_Sham - deleted account due to emotional turmoil resulting from the fall of Assadist Syria
frauddogg - deleted account out of shame of being exposed as ex-U.S soldier, after calling funkYankkkees "settler"
@Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net - banned due to misogyny
@Pluto@hexbear.net - banned due to
reason: Repeated violations and refusal to self crit
Neptium
Maorites
Afters
Hopefully this year is a year of recovery
Wasn't HelltakerHomosexual Hawaiian? Or was she just someone from Hawaii, not someone who's ethnically Hawaiian?
Idk... I didn't ask her ethnicity, let alone knew her, but you can add to this, if ye want...
I don't think anything that is happening is funny and I don't like being treated like a spectacle
I hope to empathize with you on such part, grazing.
Been trying to make friends. It's hard. Anyone has any tips (I'm surrounded by white people).
Have you found anyone who you're comfortable to confide with for something?
No not really. I sometimes think so but then they pull back and I’m slowly realizing that what I seek is just not something they’re going to give. I dunno. I need to find my community but I don’t know how.
Some dipshit submitted a FOIA request on Hexbear. Imagine not being socialized to view any willful interaction with pigs as snitching.
I thought they were joking in the title until I opened the thread and saw the screenshot. Holy fuck. The person who made the request is totally that fucking kid who reminded the teacher to assign homework.
We joke about feds on here, but until we actually find proof of feds, you don't need to do anything that would attract their attention.
They act as if it's over reaction or isn't a big deal because they think about themselves, there's a few people from Gaza posting here, "best" case scenario the site gets shut down for funding terrorism and they lose a platform that donates money to them, worst case they get targeted by the occupying forces. The same applies to all other handicapped/poc/unhoused people in the mutual aid community.
there's a few people from Gaza posting here, "best" case scenario the site gets shut down for funding terrorism and they lose a platform that donates money to them
If this were true they would have shut down tumblr, there are far more Palestinians there and the fundraising amount is not even close.
Tumblr is not the same as Hexbear, they vote for Kamala Harris over there.
There are a not insignificant amount of actual communists, many of which are more principled and ideologically coherent than the average hexbear user. Also far less USAmerican and white
Sure, then let's send the site to more U.S. groups, have the CIA and the NSA let ISIS check it out too, it doesn't matter, a lot aren't ideologically coherent people unlike the Tumblr that will never get taken down by them, I'm sure these groups know the difference between principled and non-principled leftists and won't do anything, they historically only messed with perfect communists who memorized Das Kapital in 4 languages, and even if they do it doesn't matter as long as it's not your life in danger.
reporting a small trans-marxist reading group to the local PD as a "joke" since they weren't doing much anyway
How does a person respond to being called out for talking like a settler by calling the person who called them a settle "an invader", I geniunely couldn't understand that part.
Crap, we lost @frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml and @Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net
The first, prolly due to OPSEC (some guy apparently asked for FOIA from FBI on hexbear)
Edit: Nevermind, someone give the true reason via DM -> https://hexbear.net/comment/5785091
The second, due to misogyny
That's like the 3rd. person in two weeks to leave due to whitey doing cracker shit. 😡
Turns out I was wrong
https://hexbear.net/comment/5785091
I did not have "Frauddogg self-destructs after calling someone from the global south a settler and then attempting to excuse having served in the US military" on my 2025 Bingo card.
Wait, frauddogg served in the US military? This does not paint them in a good light at all, especially if they were deployed. Assuming that it is true, it's also an incredible lapse of judgment for frauddogg to think that they can somehow admit to being a vet and at the same time think they can get away with people not calling them out on being a vet.
frauddogg was groomed into enlisting in high school as a minor
I'm not a hardliner who thinks every single foot soldier of empire is an irredeemable baby butcher who should be shot in the face, but there has to be a degree of humility among vets, including POC vets. There were plenty of Black Panther and AIM revolutionaries who started out as brainwashed lapdogs of empire send to Vietnam to oppress the Vietnamese, but they came out of the experience with a clear political understanding of US imperialism and their own personal role as a cog within the US death machine, which was part of the reason why they dedicated the rest of their lives to the BPP/AIM. And they had the humility to 100% owe up to being brainwashed lapdogs of empire who should've been fighting alongside the Vietnamese instead of against them.
I didn't see that sense of humility within frauddogg. You can't go around calling people settlers and crackers while at the same time having served in the US military. It doesn't work like that.
i guess we would have lost them the moment we had another soldier struggle sess
I don't think the people in the linked thread and that comment are being fair to frauddogg
Well, tbf, do you think it was fair to fellow POC @FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net to be called a "settler"?
From what I can tell (and recall) Frauddogg took issue with Funk's statement on a Hexbear user contacting the FBI to submit a FOIA request about Hexbear
This website is not a threat to capital. This response is frankly ridiculous.
Which frauddogg called a settler take.
To be clear I think someone toying with government attention (especially without anyone's consent) should be taken seriously and Hexbear has been a lifeline to a lot of users.
Maybe I grant you that, because I suppose many of them would prolly be the people frauddogg would be arguing with...
I think a lot of people are going to take it the wrong way and assume because frauddogg wasn't perfect in this one situation, they can disregard everything frauddog has ever said (even when correct). It's also a case of minorities being expected to be informed and perfect 100% of the time, while whitey is allowed to say stupid shit.
Don't think it was wrong to call something "a settler take." You wouldn't e-mail the CIA/Mossad/MI6 asking them if they've seen a group's Facebook page. Doubling down on being part of the American war machine, however, is not good.
Oh... damn
I saw the posts earlier today, but frauddog had already deleted null's posts so I didn't really quite get to whole picture.
Losing frauddogg sucks, but I get it.
And I hope frogmanfromlake can do some introspection.
@FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net can you just cool down with the FOIA argument?
Besides
"What profit {you} to bleed? Shall the dust praise {you}? Shall the worms declare {your} truth?"
I don't wanna anyone else to ragequit and delete account or get banned, like the others before you
For a bloomer moment — I've met several awesome communists of color this past year. Hoping to get to talk to them even more next year!
I've met several awesome communists of color this past year. Hoping to get to talk to them even more next year!
That's the Global South for you, khizuo!
vent post: family issues, ableism, anti-masking, anti-veganism
Really hoping that I can move out in 2025 because my mom is increasingly pushing me to do things that are detrimental to my health. She thinks that my physical disability is mainly a mental issue (it's not) and that I can overcome it by exercising (I can't, my condition gets worse if I overexert myself) and that I need to stop being vegan to cure it (not going to happen). Also none of my family are COVID-cautious and my mom is forcing me to take off my mask around them just because she doesn't like seeing me wearing a mask.
Moving out is going to be a struggle though. Last year I temporarily moved out (well, there's a bit more to it than that but yeah) but eventually had to return because I didn't have a good plan, I was jumping around and it was tough. And with my disability worsening significantly this past year it's going to be even harder. Maybe even impossible. But I have to try.
So yeah, I'm going into the new year with a lot of stress. I don't know what's going to happen, really. All I know is living with my parents is not sustainable in the long term.
Wow, you have some kooky parents
Diaspora personal politics do be like that...
Diaspora politics are fascinating, lol. My mom literally sounds like a Maoist at times (I’m becoming increasingly convinced that she actually is one) but then will also say reactionary things. My dad on the other hand is just a lib, he literally stopped caring about COVID before it became socially acceptable to do so.
