SeizeTheBeans [comrade/them, they/them]

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Cake day: September 13th, 2025
  • SeizeTheBeans [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent ExtremismEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Community. If you can, surround yourself with comrades or at least people you are confident will have your back like family and good friends which can of course include genuinely sympathetic libs. Make sure all of them know the kind of threat that is looming if not already present. I know this isn’t possible for many people (including me) in this hyper-atomized broken society, but the more you can form and solidify a close-knit network of people who are ready and willing to support and protect you and each other, the better off you’ll be in terms of immediate protection as well as general mental health and well being. Don’t go places alone if at all possible, but in a group or at least with another person. If we’re already “terrorists” then we’d do well to be in a gang. Organizing isn’t just for being a good activist, it’s literally something we’re going to have to do for survival as all of this continues to get worse. Stay aware of what’s going on locally, like in your town and city. Get armed.

  • SeizeTheBeans [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•[deleted]English
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    2 days ago

    People on the left don’t turn it into an ethnicity thing because people on the left, most of them anyway, understand that “white” isn’t an ethnicity, it is a socially-constructed supremacist in-group that ethnicities can be added to or subtracted from. The term European isn’t an ethnicity either, but a broad and vague conglomeration of various ethnicities. As leftists, we recognize, as anyone readily should, that it was mostly the European ruling classes (though not exclusively - no one would deny for example Imperial Japan’s settler colonialist ambitions) that overwhelmed the rest of the world with settler-colonialism. Nothing about that is “turning it into an ethnicity thing.” Most leftists are also historical materialists, which absolutely refutes the idea that any ethnicity is imbued with inherent traits of domination, but describes the historical events that led to our current conditions as being entirely a result of the material circumstances of any given place and time.

    People on the “left” turn it into an ethnicity thing, because humans have always liked to do that.

    No, people have not always “liked to do that” by turning “it into an ethnicity thing” - people have always tended to make in-group and out-group distinctions and carry prejudices of each (usually positive for the former and negative for the latter), but that can be done along any lines of convenience and it can also be intentionally rejected. Leftists explicitly reject and deliberately avoid doing this by examining human development through a materialist lens.

  • SeizeTheBeans [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•See the text messages that prosecutors say Charlie Kirk shooting suspect exchanged with his roommateEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I would just say to consider Chapo_is_Red’s response and then Nopeace’s response to that in this same thread. And OP’s response, “could be true for all we know.” It could be. But that’s the problem. The narrative on any given event is so openly and nakedly just an agenda that doesn’t even need to have a tangential relationship to reality, so our best bet at landing somewhere within the realm of truth is to first assess who benefits from the story as it is being presented. It might be true, but it’s on equal footing with all the so-called conspiracy theories because that’s all any of it is anymore, an ocean of spin. It’s not that feds weren’t always compulsive liars because of course they were, but the lesson there isn’t that they can be taken at their word like most people used to do before the post-truth era, it’s that we never should have trusted them about anything to begin with. But we should even less now because it is a lot worse than it used to be, where they practically flaunt how batshit they can be with the media fully on board no matter how contradictory the shifting narrative gets in comparison to what it was the day before and vast swathes of the public will eat it whole because their team is the faction currently pushing it.

    You’re right, not everything is a government plot. But everything they say is a narrative they’re pushing, and it may or may not have any relationship with reality. If it is true, you have to ask how they benefit from actually telling the truth this time.