you know, the times everyone comes together to support or celebrate
that post yesterday about TC69 & BrookeBaybee was pretty great 🥰 I wasn’t here back in the day to interact with them, but they’re legendary, and seeing everyone’s delight about their romance was heartwarming
tell me about the ones you hold dear
PS: you’re the best and I love you ❤️
edit: title edited per correction from @context@hexbear.net 💕
It’s really fun to see users on here who declare they came from elsewhere in the Lemmyverse, ignored the boogyman narrative, had a cool conversation with our valiant posters, and eventually decided we were so friendly and welcoming that they wanted to stay. I see someone declaring that basically every week now, it’s great to see the proof that you can actually have more comrades by means of nice conversations
Those posters warm my heart.Happened to me
Same here. Although for me it was kind of cheating, since I was on the subreddit before and had no idea it moved here. Once I found that out, the bears had a leg up on dragging me here from my other Lemmy Alt lol. But I found that out only after hexbear were depicted as a boogie man to my other Lemmy account, and after I had a conversation with a couple about stuff.
that was me too! I found Hexbear because someone made a post on midwest.social right after federation, asking if midwest.social was going to preemptively defederate like lemmy.world, which brought in a bunch of drama and bitching about Hexbear that prompted me to come check it out and then make an account, and it became my lemmyverse main within a week or two.
this place is the best ❤️
I love the theorybro-posting threads where some of you just go back and forth on Marx, Lenin, et al. and help others understand theory.
Shout out to the theory-heads
You were one of the people I was actually thinking about when I made that comment lol. I’ve tried a few times but gave up after a tourist wasn’t using the sludge in their brain pan to try to understand that the modern concept of the nuclear marriage was intended for women to be used as chattel or that having a large amount of children was done partially for free labor exploitation in the homesteader era.
I’m a better learner than a teacher anyway.
I will say, the amount of people that legit understand theory here towers over the users in the lefty reddit spaces. Right now on /r/communismmemes, there is a user claiming that all anarchist are liberals. I tried telling them they are wrong and they immediately downvoted me like a dweeb.
Sorry for the ramble lol.
Oh shit, really? Thank you! I’m flattered.
I will say, the amount of people that legit understand theory here towers over the users in the lefty reddit spaces.
Certainly helped push me to actually dig into theory more!
immediate downvoting doesn’t get anyone anywhere, so glad hexbear removed it. if you would like to understand that person’s position, here are a couple formulations of similar claims:
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this cushvlog MIND FORCE: FIBBONACCI SNIPER at 41 minutes. this is near the conclusion of a discussion that starts around 15 minutes in the video, originating from Matt’s reaction to Nathan Robinson saying things would be better if Marx hadn’t been born. would be good to start at 15 minutes for more context if you have a bad reaction to starting at 41 minutes.
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in a more rigorous fashion this zhenli piece argues that anarchists are not marxists: https://taiyangyu.medium.com/no-you-cannot-be-an-anarchist-and-a-marxist-4d196640c5d7
presented with no antagonism, motivated by finding a way out of this mess humanity finds itself in.
I’m having a hard time parsing what Matt is saying because he’s so yell-y. What is the basis of his definition of “liberalism” with regard to anarchists? Sorry my ASD brain just isn’t computing this.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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I love seeing hexbears trans their gender after hanging out here for a while
Not me
Put on the cat ears and the thigh highs, comrade
I have been looking for some good quality thigh highs the past few days, thanks for the reminder
Can’t go wrong with Sock Dreams
Idk if kissinger carking it counts, but that was a wonderful moment
Edit: I’m changingy answer to when everyone came to commemorate the loss of comrade biggs
. I hadn’t been around on hb for that long, maybe a year or so, and biggsposting in the general mega was a whole celebration of the fuzzy friends in our lives. Theres lots of lovely animals in the general mega who we all loveUphold Marxist-Leninist-Biggs thought
Big ups to comrade Sasha as well
UlyssesT did Hexbear and the world a wonderful service.
Idk if kissinger carking it counts, but that was a wonderful moment
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excuse me, fam, but actually they’re called snuggle sessions in order to rhyme more closely with maoist “struggle sessions”
😍 this would make for the best sweatshirts and hoodies
you are absolutely right – post edited 🥰
The Paris Commune.
That one time when Kissinger died. The way we all came together to celebrate was beautiful. I love you comrades!
Seeing [Funded] in Mutual Aid posts is always wonderful to see.
I was thinking of some of those when I made this post!! they always thrill me 🥰 the power of comradeship
I know! It’s always great to see comrades helping others out.
Every time I get depressed and write out a long live journal blog post, I get a ton of support and love and it always helps me deal with shit. It happens like every other month so I appreciate it.
fuckin same, dude
the support here is incredible and invaluable
I got a a couple of my own posts that come to mind.
This post of a screenshot I took just moments before CTH got banned on reddit
https://hexbear.net/post/55327
And this one about that time we destroyed a terf app and practically ruined this lady’s whole career
❤️❤️❤️
❤️❤️❤️you gorgeous person, you’re the only person who gave me the precious wholesome reading material I crave ❤️❤️❤️ thank you, thank you
diving in rn
edit: wow, do you know the story behind this? there was a post in /r/conspiracy that leaked that a bunch of subs were about to be nuked??
also, so eternally jelly of everyone who caught the fuckin life raft, why did I have to touch grass during those crucial days
edit p2: okay, now I’ve gone through that second post, which was an all-timer 🤩
- it was snitched by a DSA account?!?! 😂
- this thread full of long-timer gold 🥰
- volcel police was a user?!? 😂
- speaking of users, so many names all over that thread that are still here, including people like Phish that idk if I’ve ever seen before but are definitely still around. it’s funny how much active hours/areas of interest affect which Hexbears you meet.
- a person who was in those comments a lot but isn’t active anymore is @CommieTommy@hexbear.net who last posted about getting toothpaste in his eye … any idea what happened to him and his minty eyeball?
wow, do you know the story behind this? there was a post in /r/conspiracy that leaked that a bunch of subs were about to be nuked??
I remember it vaguely and it was tied to an incredible neoliberal think piece about us
https://networkcontagion.us/reports/network-enabled-anarchy/
Drinking game challenge: take a shot every time the phrase “anarcho-socialist extremism” is used and try not to die.
Also that is one of the corrections of all time. They had to issue a retraction after comparing us to fucking ISIS, but just changed the table to say Jihadist groups.
Also that ? is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
A table that could describe maybe all organisations and ideologies ever.
- Believe various things, some optimistic, some pessimistic
- talk to each other
- like 1+ persons from history
- 2+ violent persons have used their label, and
- discuss their beliefs/hate being violently attacked.
is real 😂Also here is a screenshot someone took while the trans thank you/we about to get banned thread was still cached. This was the last thing I saw on the old subreddit, I was posting in that thread when I refreshed the page and it was gone.
beautiful 😍 thank you!
Not hexbear proper, but all the times I’ve tuned into hextube, the chat is such good vibes.
it’s very fun! if Trump and Kamala go on Rogan, I’m hoping we watch it together
Acceptable background music, Power Cuddle.
Which post about BrookeBaybee and TC69? I missed that one.
Half the convos in the trans mega come to mind. From supporting and listening to each other, to talking about fun queer games, to heavy flirting, and of course accelerating each others gender ^^
