HOW ARE WE DOING YALL?? I Know a lot of yall are going through it rn. NO CRACKERS ALLOWED, THEY WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT

  • sweet_pecan [love/loves, they/them]@hexbear.netOPM
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    20 hours ago

    my most unpopular opinion is that non-donated human hair wigs are tacky. i think paying hundreds of dollars to a Korean owned company that harvested hair from mostly low castes people in south asia who have few other options is TACKY!!! its WIERD actully.

  • 9to5 [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    22 hours ago

    Yesterday was a waste—I got nothing done.

    But in the quiet I schemed and planned. My myriad Machiavellian machinations are now set in motion and soon, they shall bear fruit. I will rise above it all and claim my destiny as the god of a new world!

    Thats it. Im the badguy. No more capitalism for you hexbear.

    On a serious note. Yesterday was chill. Barley slept today but its ok because I got shit to do.

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      It’s ok for literally everyone to be racist against Indians. Out in the open. Just say the wildest thing imaginable, as if you’re some fucking Victorian colonialist or mimicking ante-bellum speech, and people will just nod. Not even confined to chud or libs. It’s insane.

      Now, of course, fuck Elon and Vamaswami, but jesus christ, at some point people need to realize being this hateful against people from the most populous country in the world doesn’t make a healthy world and literally every fiber of morality you hold dear, whether it’s political, racial, dietary, etc. means nothing if you’re such a racist piece of shit.

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      I’ll say, it’s funny seeing them in real time put 2 and 2 together. They truly believed we’re a meritocracy because they saw white people succeed and that was enough for them. Now they’re told the same things they said about minorities, white people aren’t good enough. I love it

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    Idk maybe I do judge white people too harshly, but to be fair to me, they do make it hard to stay Fair and Balanced™ with all the continuous complicity with and execution of genocide for hundreds of years ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͠⁠°⁠ ͟⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠°͠⁠ ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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      Crackers get to spend 400+ years genociding, enslaving, and warring with the people who disagreed with the first two parts; but as soon as you remind them what their history looks like and why you don’t trust them because of it, all of a sudden, it’s “reverse racism”. Like, no Polly, you don’t get to racialize the whole goddamn world and expect no one’s gonna do it to you-- especially with 400+ years of malfeasance to point to.

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        (Trying to be vague-ish with the details, but) it was actually even longer than 400 years ago when the western euros did a holy war on my homeland and completely eradicated more than half of our sister nations, which was a fact completely hidden from me by the comprador regime while I was growing up. Cultures, languages and ways of being that are gone forever, erased from the historical record. Not to mention the occupation within the last century where 100s of thousands of >ethnic minority< were genocided. The occupation even acheived complete eradication and homogeneity in some areas…

        And only then do we get to the intimately personal level, where our economy got hooked up to the boom and bust cycle of capitalistm in one of the most fucked implementations imaginable, with one of these inevitable “busts” eventually displacing my family after some suits in the US didn’t manage their financial gambling toys or whateverthefuck correctly and we bore the brunt of their failure while they received billions of dollars because god forbid they would go out of business… Of course we ended up in fascist britain being the underclass who, I was literally taught in school, “didn’t need” to be paid as much as the brits “because they will accept it” ಠ⁠益⁠ಠ

        Like I get that it’s up to me to work through these feelings and that random working class people don’t deserve all of that to be put on them, but if I share this shit with someone and they have no empathy for my situation then they’re just giving away which side they’re actually on.

        • but if I share this shit with someone and they have no empathy for my situation then they’re just giving away which side they’re actually on.

          The opposite is true, when it comes to fascists, imperialists, or settlers, that crackers and other adjacent people defend

          If they have enough sympathy to defend for the former, I assume they see themselves in the other

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            It’s a major tell when they start rationalizing fascists. Slavery, for example, often gets the “Well it was just how things were. Slavery wasn’t considered wrong and you can’t apply today’s morality!”

            You know who didn’t support slavery? Slaves. You’re telling on yourself that you see yourself as a slave owner and don’t sympathize with the oppressed. You likely don’t even consider them people.

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          but if I share this shit with someone and they have no empathy for my situation then they’re just giving away which side they’re actually on.

          It’s the era of self-reporting afaic-- when someone tells me who they are and who they side with, that’s deaded from that point forward. A whole unholy host of settlers decided “y’know what, fuck a mask”-- guess that’s the one silver lining of the death of shame; now the opps are PROUD of letting us know what it is.

  • Merry Christmas to all of you comrades who celebrate!

    Hope you and your families are all doing well. I’m glad this space for us exists and thanks to all of you who participate in and defend it.

  • 9to5 [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Hiya folks

    I’m an office worker from the Caribbean, living in a Western country. Spending lots of time with the family around the holidays atm. Life isnt always good- right now its nice though classic

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    im thinking of how few spaces there are online that are predominately poc/non western and explicitly communist/left. its a shame. but i like to believe most poc leftists are doing irl work. at least thats my personal experience. social media is a white man’s kingdom

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      “As someone who uses social media, I have found it to be a vital and efficient resource for reaching out to others and educating communities. However, the Internet is still largely governed by the same racist and sexist rules that structure the “real” world. One could even argue that the Internet gives white supremacy full access to black activists and their thoughts, which is perhaps one of the largest downsides of using the Internet to engage in racial justice work.”

      “it’s becoming increasingly obvious that social media is beginning to carry out the legacy of the American dream in insidious ways that both distract us through, and perpetuate the seductions of, white supremacist capitalism.”

      Aph Ko (and also why the great firewall might possibly be one of the best things in china)

      • Aph Ko (and also why the great firewall might possibly be one of the best things in china)

        It’s like what I always think: the free market nowadays is a mere excuse to ravage any counter-western hegemone’s economy, so as much as possible, protectionism may be the way to go until you have a strong enough social media infrastructure base to counteract, if not challenge it

  • Kolibri [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I saw my grandma and the rest of my family, it was nice seeing them. We had

    cw: meat

    tamales and pozole

    I dunno, it was just nice being seeing them, holidays and stuff just a lot more lonely now that my dog and my mom gone since last year

  • Rojo27 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I want to get away from everything. I hate that I have so many people in my life that have to talk about things being woke. And its not even white people.