Pretty sure at least one person in my local org is on here, but we don't acknowledge it, like Baptists who see each other in the liquor store
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Meeting another user IRL would be so cool but also REALLY fucking awkward, if your account contains a lot of intimate details about yourself. 
I stick things up my butt
If you are on this website, that is a very safe assumption.
The post-revolution^ biographies would be incredible.
^ 
I once saw someone IRL on hexbear at a lefty meetup that I'm not going to dox myself over. I was wondering if I should have said anything but didn't
in retrospect it would have been a bit weird because i was still an egg back then. also it would have been weird to say hi to another hexbear user IRL like that
understandable, I was more feeling the mystery of it
nobody break opsec plz!
I saw a guy that looked like David Cross and was wearing this shirt who I felt had a very high chance of being a power poster.
i used to have this t-shirt a long long time ago
I have a friend that had this shirt a long long time ago…
that's a great bit of comradely festiveness
I get a bit paranoid that coworkers will find my comments somewhere and realize I'm actually a straight-up dirty commie and not just a vaguely progressive liberal... my workplace has no real labor protections that would help me and I need to stay employed.
Same. I feel like I need to start masking as a lib because the fascist rhetoric from co-workers is gonna get me fired. I try not to talk too politically but I have this one co-worker that is a straight up fash, and I'm gonna end up saying something. I just hope it's liberal-coded enough.
Yep, always gotta keep plausible deniability. I try to gently provide based takes in a way that is easily acceptable when I can, though.
I try to frame it as coming from an apolitical History Guy angle: "Damn that's crazy man, well good luck with that but you're probably gonna get owned, I'll be here chillin."
I got drunk at the work Xmas party and told a Trump guy that I was a communist (and that I wanted to fuck the HR lady). He was actually kind of cool about it later.
Huh, can't admit to having done the same yet, haha. Definitely try to tone down my radicalism.
Funny enough, I find the finance-dudebros end up being the most receptive to positive news about the PRC, if you can point to them focusing heavily on industrialization making surpassing financialized economies like the US more of a matter of when, not if.
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I just assume that some of my irl friends lurk here and that we'll never discuss it
ya, that's a nice vibe
or
but mostly 
I've done a litmus test a few times with my offline commie/anarchist friends and only ran across one person that knew of hexbear. His response was "that's still a thing?" lol.
Actually I guess he's still an online friend but he's a founding member of a neighboring chapter of the org I'm in. So not fully online friend?
If I meet any of you irl, it's Highlander rules straight up 
I'm willing to meet up with any DC-area comrades
Northern Virginia folx, let's meet up!
Ive met plenty of people from here over the years and it's always been nice! Can be awkward, sure, but that just comes with meeting new people i think. I'm not super great at socializing anyways 
We met at the agency retreat at Martha's Vineyard last summer, remember?
I know one poster because his opsec was really bad, but he's moved too far away from where we met for me to just tell him in person and I don't have a secure way to message him to let him know :( , plus I did not want to then leak my identity to him.
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if any of you see me irl then either i have moved or something has gone terribly wrong.
i am in your walls
does that count the watercooler at quantico?
I'm in your home right now. I can hear you breathing. You'll never find me.
Egh, I wouldn't know.
Barely know any people now IRL, let alone on this site.
This was inspired by thinking of a friend I knew in high school that I haven't spoken to in more than a decade and have no idea how to find at this point. We were not really that politically conscious or anything at the time besides some vague anarchist vibes, but just kinda weird nerds. I wonder if by chance they might be on this site. Not that I think any specific user is identifiable IRL for me.
That's nice, you had a friend in HS. Wish you'd be able to meet them 😊