I would be real disappointed if that was true
Also, why are pronouns bad when we do it?
“Ok guys I just got this great idea for how we can troll the left, it’s really funny I promise, what if we like, what if we all like, set up a community where we pretend to be commies, and also a bunch of us were like, trans and gay and stuff? No no like hear me out we would like ban anyone who says slurs or questions the validity of trans people in any way, lol. Like, what if we designed a bunch of custom emojis with the trans flag and made everyone display pronouns next to the name to make sure nobody gets misgendered? That’d be so funny lol. But we HAVE to make sure nobody catches on, so we should just like, keep the bit to ourselves for a couple years, we’d have to like, spend a couple years hanging out in that kinda space with just us until we can perfect the bit. Ok so who’s down?”
Seriously, have these people met chuds before? I’d be impressed to see one that could keep the mask on for like a day.
Don’t forget having fucking reading groups and forums for learning about leftist theory and history and having many users on hand who can discuss Marxist, etc. works with a great deal of familiarity, often readily including citations and encouraging people to do their own reading.
This is some “Judeo-Bolshevism” level shit
Would you be able to recommend some threads/comms that discuss theory and history? I’m new to hexbear and want to read up.
Incredible bit idea though, getting a bunch of
on estrogen for 3 years learning about queer theory to stick it to the libsTrying to figure out if I can use this irl, like, “No, see, I’m only transitioning to act as a deep cover operative so I can find and expose the grooming rings, can I count on your cooperation in keeping up my disguise by calling me by a different name and pronouns?”
This sounds kinda gay, I’m in
CW: antisemitism
Even at the peak of the the bizarre frenworld stuff when they tried their damnedest to keep the mask on there’d be a happy merchant or triple parens in every thread
Also I spend too much time here I started spelling “bullshit” B-O-L-S-H from transcribing my inner monologue.
“Did you know that if you don’t throw your trans comrades under the bus to appease chasers and ableists that it totally means you’re actually just using them as a shield bro, just trust us bro”
Every accusation a confession.
“Here’s my flimsy excuse to say that pronoun tags are a bad thing”
- another transphobic sock puppet account
“JohnBrownWasRight”? Sounds like something a republican would say in an alternate history where the Southern Strategy didn’t lead to a reversal in Republican and Democrat’s positions on race in the 60s. Clearly the Mandala Effect is at work here! No more sand painting until we get this under control!
Wait we have cishet people here?
Uhh, definitely not
The most stereotypical kinds even
We are
And we love our
🏳️🌈 ⚧️While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free
My ‘Not a cishet informant’ t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the shirt.
I happen to know a few people who are “most likely straight” or “probably cis” or both, just give them time
jk … unless?
This is an aggressively LGBTQ+ space and if you’re cishet and you’re still with us you’re unironically one of the good ones™
Cheers I appreciate that
Eh? I think being one of the good ones requires a certain proactivity that isnt really proved by being here, but I agree with the sentiment.
flamboyantly aro cishet
that’s real as fuck thank you for joining us
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
I am the token cishet required to receive our funding from Soros, Xi, and Putin. Nice to meet you!
Pronouns in usernames is WHY I decided to stay on hexbear instead of jumping from instance to instance with the great reddit exodus of '23.
I’m still learning to interact with y’all, but I appreciate how tight knit the community is and how y’all interact with each other.
On that though, I genuinely can’t see how people’d think this is a right wing instance pretending to be left wing, it’s like they haven’t even looked at the instance beyond a cursory glance
What does his edit mean? Does he want us to bully LGBT people because we’re supposed to be right wing baddies in his mind?
mfw people aren’t being mean to lgbtq people
Wait…Actually humanity, yes we are right-wing. We have the good ideology. We’re not leftists we’re just alt-libertarians. We have all the same biases and prejudices you do, so vote us in power and we will get you the special treatment you deserve, we promise.
Hexbear, I’m told by insider sources, is Potemkin leftism - it’s a grand performative conspiracy where the far-right congregate to LARP as leftists as a means of tricking good, honest liberals and as a means of indoctrinating naive, newly-minted leftists into deplorable acts such as “reading theory”, denouncing Va*sh, and adopting a position of revolutionary defeatism which is inherently racist against People of NATO.
It’s disgusting.
i was browsing blahaj to see what the aftermath of defederation was like. reading the thread this came from made me so angry i had to just stop
Wait thinking Johns are gross is being detached from reality now? Really? Have any of these people actually talked to anyone in real life? Even fucking dudebros hate on Johns and call them simps lmao. Like I’m telling you, you’re not going to find much support for this in the real world. There’s a reason men don’t solicit sex workers in public and tell their wives about it.
There’s a reason sex work models in some countries make “selling” legal but “buying” illegal. It’s a real thing in the real world.
Didn’t we just have an anti-SWERF struggle session a couple months ago? I thought the consensus was that sex has already been commodified and that sex work is no more “selling your body” than coal mining or any of a number of other jobs is, and that if you’re taking particular offense to sex work you should seriously reconsider whether that energy is coming from a sexist slut-shaming puritanical place or truly from your leftist values.
I didn’t take any particular stance on the issue because I’m neither sex worker, nor john, nor a woman. I guess I’m saying this partly to restate the strict anti-SWERF hexbear line, and partly to clarify my own understanding, not to attack you personally because I don’t think you’ve said anything necessarily incompatible with this, but it could be taken that way.
this is the take SamPond at blahaj was mad at. being anti john isnt SWERF shit. being anti john is abt having solidarity with sex workers. sex workers are indeed workers as much as coal miners are. pimps and johns, however, are akin to coal mine owners in this analogy. johns are not mere consumers, they are directly exploiting the labor of sex workers.
In a later comment in this thread I clarified with
which isn’t even a general position on here, just the opinion of one user.
I am aware we are anti swerf, but I’m not aware of the specifics of the general site position or anyone else’s thoughts on the matter.
They picked probably the worst possible example to prove how disconnected we are. Shoulda gone with the rock stacking struggle sesh smh
Yeah there’s so many things they could have focused on, like outdoor cats vs indoor cats, rock stacking, our extremely weird in jokes, but they chose the one thing, which isn’t even a general position on here, just the opinion of one user, in which their views line up with societies general outlook.
Has real “I’m pro sex work because I want to have sex with these women” vibes.
Painting the commodification of sex as emancipatory is peak radlib shit.
Real “touch grass” moment. 90% of people understand that decent humans do not enjoy coerced intimacy.
I like to point people to the “reviews” left by german johns or this essay by Esperanza Fonseca.
society’s general outlook is anti sex work. considering johns as rapists is basic solidarity w sex workers
The first paragraph is very:
If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.
Which has been a pet peeve of mine for a while. I think usually because they don’t give any reasoning or explanation. It’s just “you don’t understand the world yet”, then explain it to me!
I feel like the intent has to be just to dismiss young people’s views as being out of touch, without offering anything better.
I was a libertarian at 25 and i’m a communist at 40, their truism sucks and is wrong
Same, also with having kids still only drove me further left.
I was conservative at 10, libertarian at 12, social democrat at 15, anarchist at 25, and Marxist-Leninist at 30.
Why would I become more conservative when capital is making the world more shit every year of my life lol
Yeah, those shitlibs really drove my brain cells to the brink of death in such an intense way that it awoke me from my 2 year old slumber. No more lurking, only dunking from now on.
The hero we need and deserve
Oh trust me, I’m not a hero. It’s gonna get… uhm… messy.
sorry to hear about your 2 year old, hope you were able to get them back to sleep
Did I stutter? No more sleep, only dunk! That includes the younglings. !
I’m an old
I am old enough to remember the GDR in colour. With decades of political work and working mostly for our lower precarious third. Yet somehow I am a 20 year old who gets money from his parents(?) - I wish! Having a body that doesn’t hurt would be amazing.
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Ah more vile shit about how AKCHTUALLY all those queer Hexbears aren’t actually queer. Please keep invalidating my identity libs maybe eventually if you hate me enough I might want to join your hateful little shit club
Is having had sex with three genders and not having had sex with another person who isn’t interested in sex yesterday queer enough or do I need to dye my hair light blue?
It’s queer enough for sure
10/10 there are people who believe we are patsocs doing trans-face.
We are the LGBT members lol. Like around half of us are LGBT+
Nah it’s a decently large majority
For a fun game go to blahaj.zone and search locally for any mention of
"In fact, we carried, before we had a pride flag, we carried the North Vietnamese flag as our pride flag. Now you could hear that and think “well that’s interesting”, but it wasn’t just an abstract thing.
(And by the way, I know there’s some people who have to leave at, uh, for a nursing class here; nobody’s gonna look at you funny when you go. I know people are starting to get nervous about—don’t worry, you go with our grace.)
So, the Gay Liberation Front and the Third World Liberation Front named themselves in solidarity with the North Vietnamese people at a time when that was considered treason. That’s like now, coming out and defending the resistance of the Iraqi people, the Palestinian people, the North Korean people, the Iranian people, the Cuban people. We face getting beaten up on the streets for marching with the Vietnamese flag but we knew that if we didn’t defend the Vietnamese people we were gonna weaken, first of all the people who deserved our support because we were the aircraft carrier in which the war was being launched in all our names. We would lose the solidarity with the Vietnamese people and we would lose our own political souls and movement as well if we didn’t take a position in support.
We were supporters on the front lines of the women’s liberation movement even when there were some who didn’t want us to be there—who said ooh, if you could just get out of the way, because you know, we’re strong women and they’re calling us lesbians [be]cause you’re around. We’re like, excuse me, we’re withstanding the lesbian invading—you better get used to that. As strong women you better get used to saying “and yes, many of us are!” Because otherwise, you’ll just back yourself right off a cliff. And I would ask you, do we have an equal rights amendment today? It was not a winning strategy.
We were involved in all these struggles, but not because we said it’s gonna be a tit-for-tat: “I’ll do this if you’ll do that. I’ll come to your demo Wednesday if you come to mine Thursday.” We did it because we knew it was a fight we had to join and be a part of. And it strengthened all—"
