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i hung out with some comrades over the weekend and hosted them for some tea and chess. had an incredible round table discussion about politics. this is what being human is about...
I wish I had commie friends.
Turn your friends into commies! It's what I had to do!
In all seriousness, I wish some for you, comrade.
im manifesting some for you!! i went from having kind of zero to a lot in the span of a year and a half or so!
That sounds awesome, I'd love to do something like that!
manifesting for you!
Currently residing in Cologne, Germany for a few days and despite being labeled as a left wing leaning city, I have yet to see a single Palestinian flag or sticker. Lots of Antifa and anti nazi shit but no Palestine. Compared to my city, were every single lamp post has Palestine stickers, it is a strange sight.
Socialism is inevitable as long as we keep on fighting for it.
Was standing in the train today with some orthodox Jewish guys, who seemed to be discussing if they were on the right train. One of them came up to me and asked me if they could use my phone to call someone since they did not have a phone. I said sure and gave them my phone. One of the dudes proceeds to call.
Then I realised: I have a big Palestinian flag sticker on the back of my phone lol. Got a bit nervous because of that but they don't seem to mind or see. Most of the time they aren't zionists but still tensions are a thing.
So for as long as I can remember I dress how I wanted and did my own hobbies. Colorful or alternative clothing, being a open and accepting person, that kind of stuff. And I suffered a great deal of ridicule for it in my hometown, being called gay and whatnot.
So years go by and I continue to be me, you know. Dress in my own type of clothes, enjoy my coffee while reading a book outside, whatever. And after leaving my hometown and moving into the big city some years ago I finally felt like I found a place where I could do such things without facing homophobia.
Only now this whole 'aesthetic' has been hijacked by the performative male meme which is now, imo, turning into another form of homphobia (haha real men can't read books or wear flashy outfits by themselves, they must be acting to get laid!). It is reinforcing patriarchic views of what men can and cannot like. Men can't like stuff women happen to like without ulterior motives, or without being gay.
most people in the real world don't care about some mean, cynical meme discourse, just keep doing you and try not to let it get to you (which is admittedly easier said than done). rejecting toxic masculine posturing and being an open person sounds pretty based to me, for what that's worth!
As the weather cools down in the northern hemisphere, and warms up in the southern, make sure you're all dressing appropriately for the weather! Keep up with your goals, look excitedly towards the future, and roll up our sleeves so that we may better do the work necessary for that future to be a good one. The historic duty of the working class depends on each and every one of us.
Have a great week, y'all! And stay safe, people of Palestine. May the entity crumble to dust and your people be free from river to sea.
Lol what the actual fuck is going on hexbear. We're supposed to accept genocidal jackboots (some with nazi tattoos), apparently we're remaking the clean Wehrmacht myth with how "propaganda" affects those who join the military even though most military is middle-class and on a DPRK post you can see a "Yay, more bombs" tongue-in-cheek post!
This is literally all happening within the past like week.
yeah the discussion around vets is making me super uncomfortable there.
I was driven out of there a month ago or so for similar reasons. There’s a problem with the mods, they defended Zionist arguments for years regarding the Israel emoji and banned anybody who brought it up.
The change has been happening for over a year. This time last year the admin team was picking off/driving out quality power posters and while pulling in libs from blue sky and reddit. Remember when they tried to permaban Awoo? That was not a one off it was just them finding the limits of who they could purge in their quest to liberalize the community.
Turns out Platner literally guarded the Abu Ghraib where he got his first combat experience. This keeps getting worse and worse lol
Yeah, glad I stopped using Hexbear anywhere near as much a few months ago. Hell of a lot of idealism and supporting Yankee bullshit.
Nazi bar
Went to visit a more culturally diverse part of Cologne yesterday and of course there the Palestina stuff was. It once again confirmed to me that white people need to get a grip.
And as passive they are about Palestine, as insufferable they are about Ukraine.
The amount of alleged "Marxists" I've encountered who prefer vibes to materialism, lack basic reading comprehension, and prefer strawmen arguments over responding to what was actually written is really putting my revolutionary optimism to the test. Some comrades out there really need to learn how to process information before reacting to it.
I expect this shit from liberals but we're supposed to be better than this.
This is why we have to build a vanguard party. Not all the working class can/will/need to understand dialectical materialism.
Vibes based Comrades can be safely kept out of the loop and called in at a moments notice. Your party needs to have a person who can harness vibes and direct those people where needed. That was what Lenin did with trosky.
Can you imagine the headaches involved in managing trostky?
Lenin was stronger than I to tolerate Trotsky ngl
I agree. Too often people play with rhetoric or try to point out fallacies, taking "easy victories," rather than engaging with the most charitable reading of their points. It's a consistent problem I see. Same with comrades interacting with other comrades, I don't see it too often but sometimes I see struggle for the sake of struggle, rather than for unity and understanding.
I've been away for a while due to a strenuous and stressful move. I'm a bit more settled now in a new city where I don't know anyone or anything, hoping for a fresh start and a fruitful direction. Although it's quite lonely at the start.
I did that several years ago, and it was the most pivotal change in my life. It'll be tough not knowing anyone at first, but it was transformational for me. Good luck!
hexbear try not to implode every month challenge is going swimmingly. Surprised that one debate pervert isn't worming all up in that thread.
took a look out my window and BOOM, BIG ASS AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER BROTHER GET OOOOUUUTTRHHAGJ
The conservative party of my country just did a relaunch campaign and i kid you not, their "new" motto is "Patria, familia y libertad". 😂
It's very funny because the emerging republican-ish libertarian party in México was using that motto and they're mad as fuck.
Started a new job recently, should allow for more free time. Looking forward to it.
I hope you all have a nice week comrades!
does anybody know who the painter is?
trying to find out was maddening and sadly i came up empty, but i did learn that it is on display at the JV Stalin Museum in the basement of the Hotel Stalingrad in Mamyev Kurgan
hexbear cultural revolution when????
The empire is eating itself
not saying you or anybody else here is doing it, but seeing even the self-identified "leftist" yankees scream blue murder over this is so funny lol. The people who live there have been destroying ancient cultural heritage sites longer than any of us here have been alive but sure, let's weep blood over a ballroom that's not even 100 years old getting bulldozed to build another, fancier ballroom.
My mom send me the vote suggestion she got based on a quiz she did for the Dutch elections and it is a split between D66 (neolib) and the Green/Labour fusion and she said that for the Greens she didn't really support their 'radical' side.
Mother in Christ what radical side
It's looking bleak in the world, but im alive, and trying to at least locally contest liberal framework
Don't you just hate it when your mortality gets shoved into your face? I just noticed that my hairline has started to recede and my hair is starting to thin out on top. Its not a vanity thing, its just the reminder that my meat suit is starting to degrade and I can't get a new one.
One of the biggest reasons I work out tbh. Both my grandpa's died mid seventies so K always saw that as old. They were old for me when I was a child as well but they were actually like end of fifties / early sixties then. But they were like old grandpa's already, just sitting inside, having health issues and whatnot. Years of smoking, drinking and bad diet caught up to them.
Then I met my father in law some years ago who has since embarked on a four month bike journey to Northern Norway and is also currently renovating a cabin in Sweden all by himself. All at the age of 66.
My point is: even though we are mortal, we have the option to get the best out of it as possible. It might not stop a receding hairline or decreasing eyesight all together but it might be the reason you can still cycle thousands of kilometers when you are far above 60.
Days without leftist infighting: 0. Dutch party Bij1 posted a video on Instagram about a cheese salesman and it got the vegans mad.
Now, as a vegan, I must say commies themselves like to stick their head in the sand on veganism as well.
My hands are numb last night because I was carrying heavy load of laundry and assisting my grandmother to take a bath.
