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    • GrandAyatollaLenin [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      How much do you think this will grow the site and what type of users do you think it will attract? Is there any non-anecdotal analysis for this?

        • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Why on earth will someone from PSL take a site called hexbear seriously. I don’t like the chapo name either, full disclosure

          • GrandAyatollaLenin [he/him,comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Unless we rework a bunch of other stuff, there's a chance they'll see "Hexbear: It's about being (consensually) gay with your dad" followed by a big chungus lola the rabbit with volcel police patrolling the comments.

            Also, I don't care about getting orgs on here. Organizing is for real life, not the internet. I'd prefer if this place didn't try to affiliate with specific tendencies and organizations.

            • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I agree that a name change isn't going to instantly make us consumable to normies and irl activists.

              Disagree about getting orgs on here. I think a lot of people here are terminally online, so having exposure to real activists would definitely be a real benefit.

              For clarity, posting is never praxis, even if some rad PSL people have an AMA here. Organizing should be offline, but I'd love to have more resources here to make that easier to get into.

              • Hungover [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Disagree about getting orgs on here. I think a lot of people here are terminally online, so having exposure to real activists would definitely be a real benefit.

                I am also terminally online, but I don't think there are many people on here who DON'T organize irl. How would someone have revolutionary politics, but not act on them (except as a grift)?

                • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Don't wanna dox myself, but I'll give some background.

                  I've held revolutionary views for a while now, but I lived in a white suburban town where engaging in any praxis basically required driving a half hour. Until I moved to an urban environment, I hardly did anything besides volunteer at a soup kitchen a handful of times...hardly what I'd call "organizing"

                  Without proximity to a population center, opportunities are hard to find in an area with exclusively chuds & PMC libs.

                  • Hungover [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    That's true, but then people don't really have the option and I don't expect them to do so.

                    I think that most of the people here who have access to local orgs are engaged in them, so I don't think getting orgs here is a goal we should have.

                    For me this is a socialist non-sectarian shitposting community that is not exclusively about the politics, nothing more.

            • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I don't know how much credence this should be given but at least one person pointed out a few weeks ago that we had a founder/admin accused of pedo shit and that we had a bear as the logo.

            • Rambobutred [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              it would take me 80 seconds to convince someone that hexbear is a reference to the gay bear subculture