Nakoichi [he/him]

That one community that posts te really cute dnd comics

It demonstrably does not change anything outside local elections.

Caring about internet points is some reddit shit.

thousands of comments

literally millions of comments and hundreds of thousands of posts lol.

This is why they are so afraid of us. They could never match our posting power .

I’m just a dude playing a dude larping as a revolutionary.

But at what cost

None

May?! Yeah no shit it does.

Don’t see how using the carbon again as fuel solves anything.

I think what they are expressing is a sense of alienation, being between two socioeconomic strata and feeling like they don’t fit in with either and that maybe they feel they betrayed the former.

For what it’s worth I’m in retail and I have been most of my life, I don’t have much ambition to climb the economic ladder because it basically demands we sell our souls, that said I don’t begrudge anyone with a better paying and less stressful job. Also we absolutely need working class solidarity between tech workers and “blue collar” or “low skill” jobs. These are all preconceptions that are instilled in us to create divisions among working people.

Basically, it sounds to me like class consciousness and maybe joining a communist organization or looking into forming a union if there are points to agitate on among your coworkers might help you find what you are looking for.

Imposter syndrome is definitely a real thing though.

You’re not pretentious for telling people what your job is, you’d only be pretentious if you held to some notion that it is any more important work than that of the person serving you food or selling your groceries.

All reapers are bastards.

more and more I feel like people who are both transphobic, and also project that on China are really telling on themselves about what they would do if they were in power. It always feels like “you’re lucky our FREEDOM LOVING government lets DEG*NERATES like you exist!” It’s almost more terrifying than the typical right wing blue hair enby boogieman memes.

Doesn’t China have free publicly funded gender affirmation clinics? Or like at least one opened recently?

Doing an actual communist revolution because we are just that committed to the bit.

Some stubborn liberal that’s mad we had to [REDACTED] a few billionaires and war criminals as is necessary in revolutions comes in to the free gender affirmation clinic having just finished brunch at the local free kitchen and bursting into the reception area shouting “BUT AT WHAT COST?!” Then claiming the clinic isn’t actually real, and storming out mutter about paid Russian actors and Trump, who had since been posthumously convicted by the previous liberal government after having died choking on a McRib two years prior.

That last part also applies to Crimea.

That happened when I was in the midst of a completely shattered understanding of geopolitics and was piecing things back together with the help of Lenin and co. but I distinctly remember thinking back then “this seems really important but I am distrustful of the narrative that Russia is this cartoon villain invading and annexing people at gunpoint without firing a shot” simply because I had seen how that works in practice the many times the US has ultimately tried to do the same thing (or at least that was always the stated intent with narratives around “Nation Building”).

Now obviously Russia is not an altruistic actor here and the Russian government is extremely socially reactionary and corrupt, but that doesn’t matter when you’re in eastern Ukraine seeking self determination and under siege by a bunch of fascist paramilitaries with the tacit approval of their US backed government that rose to power in a CIA coup.

This is funny because it seems to be a more appropriate image to invoke for Hexbear users as we are the ones more notorious for “dogpiling” or “brigading” which is ironically a function of the fact that we disabled downvotes because of reactionaries using them to astroturf posts and harass trans people without actually speaking out and outing themselves.

So for years the site culture is one of disagreement yielding a flood of dissent instead of just a “silent” downvote.

TL;DR if you want to force your community to up their posting game, disable downvotes.

Oh damn now I want to read that book referenced at the top. That sounds great.

tfw no anarchist ghost smh. I didn’t know the afterlife was so authoritarian, damn tankies.