EDIT: JT has now finished. Thank you all for coming. The thread will remain open for chats to finish then we'll be locking it for preservation at some point after 24 hours. Thank you JT for joining us!
JT will be answering questions below, due to a scheduled appointment that couldn't be changed he will be starting a little late, answers will begin roughly 1 hour after the post starts.
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Okay everyone, I gotta run. Thank you all for your wonderful questions and your kind words! Lots of love, can't wait to do this again in the future 🥰
Thank you for all your efforts in combatting western chauvinism, its been wonderful to see your channel gain the traction it has.
I'm sure we all feel like we're fighting a losing battle against US propaganda, especially recently given the increased racism from liberals against China and Russia. Do you think there's any hope of overturning that ideological stranglehold within the imperial core, or will the engine of revolution continue to be located in the global south?
I'm glad you like the channel! We certainly have an uphill battle to face in the imperial core. I don't think there will ever be a moment where class consciousness overtakes the deeply ingrained ideology we've been fed for the last hundred years. Our job is to do the best we can. Fight fascism when it appears, educate our friends, family, coworkers, build resilient communities, and be prepared to weather the coming storm of warmongering and reactionary hate. As the US empire wanes, it will continue to lash out ever more violently. The people with the most to lose - those on the receiving end of the violence in the global south, will be the torchbearers of revolution. All we can do is help in whatever little ways we can.
As the US empire wanes, it will continue to lash out ever more violently.
good lord I shudder to imagine what an even more violent US empire would look like
Thank you! 100% agree. If we can just get the imperialists to stay in their own lane, by creating enough traction and support for an anti-war movement in the imperial core, then we can have the multi-polar world we all dream of; reduced inequality between nations, decolonization / return of native lands, and socialism allowed to grow unhindered by US fuckery.
Sorry for the slight pause in answering questions, friends. Had a minor crisis to resolve. I'm back and will tackle the rest now!
Dropping in to say that the East Palestine documentary was incredible and I hope you get to do more projects like that! edit - from Chattanooga
Who will be the first US Federal politician to utter the word tankie?
Realistically probably Mayor Pete, but I'm hoping it's Christie
Do you let Hakim and Yugopnik see the sun at all or are they fully secured in your basement at all times?
I have a stone slab over the pit that I roll back to give them some exposure to the sun every day or two
it was good enough for Jesus, however, you should probably get them some vitamin D supplements, not just the euphemistic downstairs 'Vitamin D'
Do you have any plans to do more on-site reporting like with East Palestine? And how spicy do you like your food?
I would love to! I plan to tackle some proper feature-length documentaries in the future, possibly in collaboration with Hakim and Yugopnik. As for spicy food, I put ghost peppers in my chili, so I like it fairly spicy
Hey comrade, what do you think about shouting out ProleWiki in a video? Or I guess for a more serious question, do you feel this type of resource could help you do research for your videos?
Had a bad experience with one of the ProleWiki people (I think it was prolewiki at least). He was in my CPUSA chapter and was one of those very sus patriotic socialists, and some screenshots of his chats came out that confirmed my suspicions
I appreciate your honesty! This was a very shameful period for us, I'm not going to try and defend it. He was later banned (I think I know which screenshot you mean) when he conspired with the Infrared community* to infiltrate the wiki. Since then we've been completely free of patsocs.
He was later banned (I think I know which screenshot you mean) when he conspired with Infrared to infiltrate the wiki.
Wait what? The infra Haz guy tried to infiltrate prolewiki? You serious lol?
I still remember when he came to hexbear and got banned within a few posts.
Not him thankfully, as far as I know he never mentioned PW anywhere lol. But someone who we later learned was watching him and participating in his community; it's on our history page.
Omg is it Wisconcom? Please tell me the Wisconcom lore just deepened. Lmao.
Lol Wisconcom definitely left a bigger mark, but no this was a different person. We wrote about all this on history page.
He’s not a patsoc, so no. Some are a mix of ultra left and revisionist, but he’s all the way on the left deviation.
Does the Deprogram crew have a betting pool on when
will finally croak? If so has Yugopnik already lost?Hi JT thank you for joining us again!
In your opinion, what are the prerequisites that must be met in order to move someone from being a radlib to a full fledged socialist?
Also what's your vice?
They have to understand class conflict. Without that analysis they will never be able to really understand global trends. My vice for many years was Dr. Pepper, but I'm about 8 months clean now!
Have you considered mentioning these Hexbear AMA's on Twitter or YouTube? Or shouting Hexbear out somewhere?
I've been running around so much the thought never crossed my mind. I'll have to do that for the next one!
