Next book I'm looking at reading is one on the cuban mafia or gusanostra as I just come up with
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Please feel free to tell me how cleaver I am, I be reading 100 pages a day recently
gusanostra
That's good un! Wait...
Shit, I forgot to read more of that other book "Fort Bragg Cartel" stuff - I think I reached less than 1/3 of the book, a few days ago, and that's my progress as of yet -
now, forgive for this remark, but I'm starting to see why the Taliban seemed like a lesser evil, compared to the corrupt patronage of poppy selling and compradorism coming from the anti-Taliban mujahideen and US and its other NATO forces, and Afghanistan wasn't a good war at all
Returing under the assumption that the Hexbear may have improved somewhat on the topic of zionism.
I posted about how the Synagogue is literally Nazi outpost and how its crazy we cant even talk about it. And got modded for "conspiracy theory".
Jewish Supremacist mods strike again?
What conspiracy am I promoting? @mod I want an explanation.
There was this sequence of mod actions, too, a few days ago:
https://hexbear.net/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=2860595
Mod didn't let the person edit the topics to include a source or whatever. Just said "when? where? Fake news!" and deleted the posts. Then said it was "low effort atrocity porn."
Yeah okay, copper. Evidence of an active genocide just becomes something abstract and unreal, something that can just be turned off so this fucking nerd doesn't have to think about it. Just because you don't want to see it doesn't mean it's not happening and it sure as shit can't be turned off for the people experiencing it.
Wow this is deplorable
The whitebread mods on this site have some serious imperialist brainworms to work through, FFS
I explicitly said I was not interested in discussing if it was a false flag or not because the real question is why these Synagogues are openly genocidal and nobody wants to talk it about it or do anything about it.
And furthermore how this untouchability has led to the abandonment of Elias Rodriguez and Mohammed Soliman, two brown people in the imperial core who were not ops or false flags.
Interesting.
The post so nobody can gaslight me.
CW: Genderqueer Awkwardness
I was just on a walk, and this person, a much older Black woman, stopped me to talk to me, asking me if I was this person she knows.
I was confused at first, but based on the name of the person she brought up, it wasn't me (just someone who might look similar), so after me being a bit perplexed and fumbling my words, I say "No, that's not me." Then she asks me, kind of spontaneously, "Are you male or female?"
I just responded with "What?" because I didn't know what to say. Due to my androgyny, this isn't necessarily an uncommon occurrence, but usually, people just assume and I roll with it. It's not as common that people directly ask "what gender" I am.
After I said "What?", she got upset, and then she started getting very apologetic. I told her that it's okay and that I accept her apology, but nothing I said was able to calm her down, really, so I just kept walking.
Yikes.
Got hit with the pokemon line, had you followed up might have gotten to choose from 3 starters.
Real tho sorry you had to deal with her
Was feeling in a loving mood so was texting family that I loved them dearly, this lead sibling to thinking ICE was picking me up 🙃 I reassured them I was fine but this country sucks. I know tracking ICE is gonna get tougher thanks to that alt right prick doing that shooting recently and do wonder how long it's gonna be before I have an incident
On this note I will tell the people I love I love them more often and try not to isolate myself online as much for my online friends and anyone here who'd call me a friend so as to not worry that I got disappeared.
There's never too much "I love you" when you greet somebody a goodbye or a cya. I mean, you never know when it's gonna be the last, so its good keep that mind.
Also, good for staying grounded with your loved ones.
Love do be revolutionary
Found a really neat Black vegan trans woman to chat with. I wouldn't say I see romantic potential, but it is really nice to have friends who I can vibe with in such ways. We shall see how things go.
I hope best for you
I'll be real I'm never surprised or shocked when a rapper denigrates his own race or sells out and I honestly never have been. Disappointed at times yes but not surprised. This is obviously not all rappers of course but I can't tell you the amount of lyrics that would make the KKK sound civil rights activists on some songs
I was able to get the funds I needed for my rent to be covered as well as the transcription equipment. Good! I have an interview tomorrow, too. I feel pretty nice about it. I talked with the owner of this place on the phone, and he seemed to vibe well. Over the phone, he said to me, "Well, the next step is that, if we decide to move forward with you, we will contact you to set up an in-person interview. I have a few other phone calls, so it might take a minute."
However, despite him saying that it might take a minute, he got back to me the very next morning (the morning of today), saying he wants to see me tomorrow morning. He even apologized for short notice, saying he can see me later if I'd prefer. I told him that I am fine with us meeting tomorrow morning, so that is the plan!
I hope this goes well! Since I'm not sure if the transcription job will definitively work out, I am keeping my options open for now.
Ghana has to borrow from IMF to buy its own gold because its gold its mostly owned by foreign powers. This is normal
Unrelated but that new pfp is swag af
It is for the purpose of evil
Corporate vegeta is activated. LinkedIn thrusters are go. Starbucks cups are go. Bootstraps pulled. Here. We. Go
how to get white people to be against anything? attach a picture of a black man or an immigrant doing it
examples
basic succdem policies, like healthcare and childcare, they're against it because of "undeserving people who take my taxes", childcare is mega racist, you can feel the "I don't want them to have more kids"
Guns, American nazis are all about gun freedom and stuff,show one of us holding a gun and blam, gang violence is bad.
R.I.P. Assata Shakur 💕
Recorded deaths of civil rights participants (BPP, MLK, X)!by state violence ~70 Deaths by gang violence 2024 ~1800
If only every blood, crip & gd in America was a revolutionary socialist fighting for the people..
These ICE clowns just chase dude because of his skin color. Thats wild. https://rdx.overdevs.com/comments.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FCringeTikToks%2Fcomments%2F1nt6foq%2Fice_in_chicago_tries_to_disappear_a_food_delivery%2F
in action... fuck. Glad he was able to get away, but it just hurts thinking of all the people who haven't been so lucky.
And supreme court gave the greenlight. Absolute nonces
I'm tired of white liberal Zionists saying they admire Malcolm X
I'm tired of white liberal Zionists saying they admire Malcolm X
I'm tired of white liberal Zionists saying they admire Malcolm X
I'm tired of white liberal Zionists saying they admire Malcolm X
Sigh Co-optation, or as the Fr*ncais say call it, recuperation
Or if we can say another thing
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
Thanks I learned something
How is this even a thing? I feel like it's just psychological warfare.
Its gotta be at this point
Pretty sure they've never heard Malcolm talk about Israel tho
I hate how "don't talk about politics" because it just means white people can be soft racist without consequences
Man shit suck some white boomers are getting on me for going to the park everyday waiting for the library to open. They haven't said anything directly to me because they cowards but I know it's only a matter of time before cops are involved. Chilling in a different place now until library opens, hate how unwelcomed I feel based on
the same right wingers who were making fun of George Floyd for 5 years straight, editing him into everything, downplaying his death, reenacting it, Suddenly find saying "it's ironic how Kirk died" to be the most offensive thing ever?
Been wanting to ask this question and it came back to my mind with my comment about that white therapist I had: Does anybody else hate seeing/hearing white people be self-proclaimed anti-racists? Something gives me the ick about white people affirming this supposed "anti-racist" stance by labeling themselves vocally. I even see it on HB at times.
Just do what you need to do to show it because, honestly, there are so many white people who falsely believe themselves to be anti-racist that it can never be a good look to me when a white person says that they are.
spoiler
All I'm saying is if a bunch of white people were being hanged from trees in 2025, it'll be considered an act of a serial killer and not ruled out as a suicide
Liberals saying RIP assata in one breath then the next praising Obama like he didn't double the bounty on her
The libs don't read 😞