I’ve gotten to meet a few people from here irl and they were all awesome, I’d love to meet more of our comrades and I expect there’s a number of us who feel that way. Not would it be cool to hang out but as much as we wish it were posting isn’t praxis however meeting offline makes it much easier to actually accomplish something. My thought was either a sticky thread or new com. People who are down to meet can post their nearest major city and then handle everything else through DMs, that should keep the doxing to a minimum. Anyone else interested in the idea or am I just being dumb?
I messaged someone a year ago after he implied he was a college student in my state. We exchanged instagrams and he turned out to be over 40 at a community college (which is cool, I assumed he’d be my age but was still happy to have a hexbear for an insta mutual)
Then he started flirting with me, although when I told him I wasn’t interested in that he stopped. But then he asked if we could meet up, and for me to “prove I’m actually 19 and not a minor” because “it’s hard to tell with people around your age” or something. Told him pretty definitively that I didn’t want to meet up, and blocked him after he was like “you sure? Just looking for a communist friend, and I have free beer”
jeeesus, did you let the mods know?
Nahh but they stopped using this site later anyways. Not a major user of this site in the first place
Hearing a story like that, makes me wonder if we’re not bullying hard enough. Sorry you had to deal with that.
People who are down to meet can post their nearest major city and then handle everything else through DMs, that should keep the doxing to a minimum.
I don’t think you’re a fed or anything, and I don’t think it’s a bad idea to meet up with users if you vibe or whatever, but I do think it’s a bad idea to foster a site culture where meet-ups are encouraged by way of posts like this.
Anyone else living in the greater Pyongyang metro area willing to meet up?
. Just join an org, you’ll meet at least a few of us that way.
Yea anybody in a city where there would be other Hexbears willing to meet up would for sure have a decent organizing presence
Though I will say the idea of befriending people you organize with low-key feels like office teammate friends
Complaining about an org’s culture is one of the strongest bonding activities you can have. Just ask all the ML/MLM/Lux/CCs/Syn/etc stuck in the local Trot org over the years 1980-2015.
Shitting on Trots isn’t even slightly controversial everybody hates them haha
Eh, I know a bunch of ones that are pretty good (China Meiville for example is great). And Trotsky is well worth reading, particularly his pre-1925 stuff.
But the stereotype of the reflexively anti-AES squabbling splitting newspaper club exists for a reason.
They really need to chill with the newspaper pushing especially in events/actions they didn’t even help organize
We should be more specific here. As I see it pushing their unrelated publications / promoting their org unprompted is a kind of tailism, a tendency to solely insert oneself in unfolding events. But that isn’t to say that we should escew agitation as a whole as the opposite pole of tailism is opportunism. Rather, agitation, pamphleting at a protest, etc. should be focused on connecting the specific issue to a broader revolutionary line. In a sentence: ‘from the masses, to the masses.’
I mean that’s fair, but in my experience they’re also the nly ones who actually show up consistently.
British Trots turning up to a cost of living protest and handing out single piece of toilet paper sized pamphlets covered in tiny writing that are a diatribe about how China is imperialist and Stalin betrayed the Russian revolution to impoverished single parents attending their first political event like:
Not to say that leftists shouldn’t be an influence at more moderate events but they always go about it in the worst way lmao
This is not actually true, the vast majority of posters do not join orgs and the vast majority of organizers do not post outside of mainstream social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tiktok).
I joined a local org with 30+ members and none of them have ever even heard of Lemmy before
I’d say it depends on the org. This is a bit uncharitable to all involved but some orgs are described as having the vibe of an IRL reddit meetup (often DSA in my experience). If you go to those ones I bet you’d find a few posters. I also met a few old r/CTH users at a PSL meetup. But yeah if you’re just trying to find like-minded people join an org. Shop around to figure out whether you like the vibe, which imo is more important that whether you totally agree with them at this stage of left-wing development in western countries. You should actually look forward to meeting your comrades, not have an “ugh I would rather…” attitude.
I met one hexbear to sell em weed and they thought that everyone here liking China was a bit and I peaced out.
Otherwise nice though
Maybe its cause I’ve never dealed before but doing this seems like the easiest way to get caught in a sting
Nobody’s doing stings on people selling weed unless it’s pounds.
It’s better for Hexbear to remain a semi-anonymous online-only social gathering space, and then direct people towards local organizations. Then, if meetups do happen, it’s through the context of the local organization.
We should just come up with a uniform and hand gestures to identify each other. I propose tropical shirts and the “okay” sign.
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Yeah everyone I’ve met has been pretty cool. If someone posts in /c/chicago I would go to a protest / bar / gun range. Dunno what leftists do outside of “work” but I enjoy hanging out and the cross-pollination effects of like “I joined this org it’s good” are productive.
I don’t care about anymore I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings. Fuck it we ball
I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings
you’ve done more than just post online presumably?
He also posts offline, pasting messages to telegraph posts.
Honestly not much more. I first requested records about myself and got “no responsive records”, and then remembered to include the boilerplate about cross-references + administrative records + etc and got the blanket denial. So I figure that I’m named in an investigation into somebody else. Maybe they grabbed my email from Pilsen Community Books, which the FBI is/was surveiling over their involvement in pro-abortion and anti-cop-city movements. The Intercept ran an article about it awhile ago. Or maybe some people I know do Cool Shit and have wisely not told me. I filed an appeal so I might find out.
I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings
I know we talk about how we’re all on a list but this is wild
I haven’t done anything so it must be stolen valor from somebody I know. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little proud
It’s not just jokes lol it’s something you just kinda accept if you do any Cool Shit. If I wasn’t already under the microscope I probably am now after going to Pine Ridge
Fuck it we ball
We never stop ballin’
I was part of a cth offshoot discord for a sec where people talked about irl stuff but shit quickly hit the fan to the tune of high school level drama
Why is this so common, leftists, especially more lib ones, can be so cliquey and catty. I’ve had so many Social Democrats join socialist spaces and just act so ridiculously counterproductive. Idk about y’all but when that happens I’m still too patient because I want to radicalize them even more but it never works; they just end up blowing things up
Death drive. Unconsciously these people don’t want socialism to succeed because deep down they actually like capitalism (because it’s still working for them on some level). I guess I’m included here since I’m posting on hexbear rather than [redacted].
Idk how true it is, but I’ve also noticed the that the more lib someone is the more likely they are to be cliquey. It’s really odd.
When an mf wants to feel a little better but has no real stakes in the situation (dickhead)
There’s like two other from my country on here and I’m pretty sure they all live in in the Capitol far from me. I do visit my family in Upstate New York every once in a while in the Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse area. Pretty sure there’s a few people from here in that area.
Edit: Looking back I did meet someone on here when I was in New York around two years ago. We went out for drinks and I introduced him to his current gf. Haven’t seen him on here since he met her 😂
Physically impossible and also i think the only way people posting here meeting should be on the streets completely oblivious of the fact that they’re posting here.
I’m super paranoid about the idea tbh.
But if you see a person dressed like Garfield outside your local city hall on new years carrying a vegan lasagna and demanding the abolition of mondays shoot me a dm.
Lmao
The old calendar is dying and the new year baby struggles to be born.