Hello all! @sweet_pecan@hexbear.net is taking a well-deserved break so I’ll be posting the mega in the foreseeable future. How are we all doing? I truly can’t believe it’s almost 2025.
REMEMBER, EM POC ONLY!!!
Made fam nopales and soy chorizo for breakfast, been a while since I made this but the nopales in my backyard need to be kept in line
Feels like its been forever since I’ve had nopales. The taco spot I used to get some from is always busy now so I barely ever think of going these days
That’s rough, I’d offer you a burrito if I could.
You cook, fae! 😁
always
🎵 I hear the talk that America
Supporting white South Africa
But if we have to work voodoo
My people shouting Uhuru
Sound the drums and summon the witch doctors
To deal with those weird characters 🎵🎵 Stay up Zimbabwe, oh ya ye
Stay up Zimbabwe, oh ya yo
Stay up Zimbabwe, oh ya ye
Stay up Zimbabwe, oh ya yo 🎵
Ya soy got themselves some sugar cane to munch on
Yum
Hate feeling like I’m part of the most hated racial demographic in the west, and I know other POC feel isolated and alienated like this but I’m always looking for solidarity with people IRL but never seem to get it.
Like, I’m sure my mental health plays into but I feel like I’m always alone on an island and have to fend for myself. My race gets it from all sides and unfortunately people within my race, at least in the US, are for the most part mentally colonized by white supremacy which is further alienatinv because I can’t seem to relate to any of them
Feel like I am literally everything and anything (negative) to everybody. I’m either looked down on because I’m perceived as too poor, or an uppity n- for being percieved as too rich and educated because of ethnicity. My people are either taking away good jobs or they’re just poor leeches on society depending on who you talk to. I’m either a person capable of SA and murder or an effete weakling. I’m assumed to be a criminal or a literal member of the ruling elite. I’m a nerd that gets racially abused in typical nerd circles or a n- that gets abused in in other circles
It feels like I’m never part of the in-group in any situation. I’m always someone’s enemy. It would be relieving if this was ‘all in my head’ and I’m only subjecting myself to these narratives as a coping/defense mechanism meant to not only protect me but feed my own ego but I don’t want a life of estrangement, and loneliness.
I’m a minority within a minority. A child of immigrants to a country that is itself a colony to an imperial power.
My upgringing could have been a lot worse and the same goes for my life, but I swear to god if I make it through life without doing serious harm to myself it will be a small miracle.
I can relate to this a lot, with islamophobia in the place of the more overt racism you face. All my family are libs or deeply reactionary Muslim chuds, there’s so few progressive pan-Arab forces left
On the one hand i have the ignorant racist kkkrackers and then on the other I have Islamists.
I can relate to this a lot, with islamophobia in the place of the more overt racism you face. All my family are libs or deeply reactionary Muslim chud
On the one hand i have the ignorant racist kkkrackers and then on the other I have Islamists.
Like attracts like, and I guess the West attracts the gusanos that Nasser rightly cracked down upon.
Hope everyone has a great first weekend in 2025
Apologies if this is inappropriate or too judgemental, but I think it’s a huge shame that frauddog deleted null’s account. I can’t speak for everybody, but I’m more than willing to share a space with someone who can show the necessary growth from having signed to be an imperialist soldier. But by deleting the account now the community will think of void as a coward and will be suspicious of any new users who are appropriately combative to cracker nonsense on this site. If you’re reading this, and plan on ever coming back, please say who you are and do some self crit. We need your posts, but we also need some transparency.
Wait what happened? Why did null delete their account? Sounds like I missed something.
Null had talked about being in the US military before, but it hadn’t really been discussed much. But when null called an user here a settler/cracker (can’t remember which, comment is deleted now) and that user replied by saying they live in a country that the US military invaded frauddog deleted the account.
Ah. Seems like an extreme reaction, but okay. Thanks!
Agreed. This goes back to a few of the recent struggle sessions, but I had pointed out a couple of times that if someone can show actual growth from their past selves then that’s someone I’d be willing to accept. No one has a straight path to becoming a comrade. Many people here, including myself, used to be Democrats/liberals and have their views over time. There are people here who used to be reactionary and have been able to move on from that time.
I don’t have much substantial to say but just as a reminder (since the tags are no longer visible) I believe frauddogg’s pronouns are null/void and none/username if I’m remembering correctly
Thanks, I was trying to remember when I was posting about what happened.
Can confirm.
In remembrance of some of the former EMPOC users of the previous year (correct if I’m wrong)
UlyssesT - deleted account for OPSEC issues under new Trump admin
Al_Sham - deleted account due to emotional turmoil resulting from the fall of Assadist Syria
frauddogg - deleted account out of shame of being exposed as ex-U.S soldier, after calling funkYankkkees “settler”
@Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net - banned due to misogyny
@Pluto@hexbear.net - banned due to
reason: Repeated violations and refusal to self crit
Neptium
Maorites
Afters
Hopefully this year is a year of recovery
I actually didn’t know that UlyssesT was EMPOC.
What a year. It’s been very turbulent on this site.
afters is gone now too…
Neptium
Maorites
You forgot
Wasn’t HelltakerHomosexual Hawaiian? Or was she just someone from Hawaii, not someone who’s ethnically Hawaiian?
Idk… I didn’t ask her ethnicity, let alone knew her, but you can add to this, if ye want…
I’m not so sure either. I could’ve sworn she was.
I don’t think anything that is happening is funny and I don’t like being treated like a spectacle
I hope to empathize with you on such part, grazing.
Been trying to make friends. It’s hard. Anyone has any tips (I’m surrounded by white people).
Have you found anyone who you’re comfortable to confide with for something?
No not really. I sometimes think so but then they pull back and I’m slowly realizing that what I seek is just not something they’re going to give. I dunno. I need to find my community but I don’t know how.
If you just wanna talk I dont mind listening. My DMs are always open
2025 off to a hell of a start.
Crap, we lost @frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml and @Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net
The first, prolly due to OPSEC (some guy apparently asked for FOIA from FBI on hexbear)
Edit: Nevermind, someone give the true reason via DM -> https://hexbear.net/comment/5785091
The second, due to misogyny
That’s like the 3rd. person in two weeks to leave due to whitey doing cracker shit. 😡
Turns out I was wrong
I did not have “Frauddogg self-destructs after calling someone from the global south a settler and then attempting to excuse having served in the US military” on my 2025 Bingo card.
Wait, frauddogg served in the US military? This does not paint them in a good light at all, especially if they were deployed. Assuming that it is true, it’s also an incredible lapse of judgment for frauddogg to think that they can somehow admit to being a vet and at the same time think they can get away with people not calling them out on being a vet.
frauddogg was groomed into enlisting in high school as a minor
I’m not a hardliner who thinks every single foot soldier of empire is an irredeemable baby butcher who should be shot in the face, but there has to be a degree of humility among vets, including POC vets. There were plenty of Black Panther and AIM revolutionaries who started out as brainwashed lapdogs of empire send to Vietnam to oppress the Vietnamese, but they came out of the experience with a clear political understanding of US imperialism and their own personal role as a cog within the US death machine, which was part of the reason why they dedicated the rest of their lives to the BPP/AIM. And they had the humility to 100% owe up to being brainwashed lapdogs of empire who should’ve been fighting alongside the Vietnamese instead of against them.
I didn’t see that sense of humility within frauddogg. You can’t go around calling people settlers and crackers while at the same time having served in the US military. It doesn’t work like that.
i guess we would have lost them the moment we had another soldier struggle sess
served in the US military
Oh yikes 😐
I don’t think the people in the linked thread and that comment are being fair to frauddogg
Well, tbf, do you think it was fair to fellow POC @FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net to be called a “settler”?
From what I can tell (and recall) Frauddogg took issue with Funk’s statement on a Hexbear user contacting the FBI to submit a FOIA request about Hexbear
This website is not a threat to capital. This response is frankly ridiculous.
Which frauddogg called a settler take.
To be clear I think someone toying with government attention (especially without anyone’s consent) should be taken seriously and Hexbear has been a lifeline to a lot of users.
And these people were on the same page
Maybe I grant you that, because I suppose many of them would prolly be the people frauddogg would be arguing with…
I think a lot of people are going to take it the wrong way and assume because frauddogg wasn’t perfect in this one situation, they can disregard everything frauddog has ever said (even when correct). It’s also a case of minorities being expected to be informed and perfect 100% of the time, while whitey is allowed to say stupid shit.
Don’t think it was wrong to call something “a settler take.” You wouldn’t e-mail the CIA/Mossad/MI6 asking them if they’ve seen a group’s Facebook page. Doubling down on being part of the American war machine, however, is not good.
Oh… damn
I saw the posts earlier today, but frauddog had already deleted null’s posts so I didn’t really quite get to whole picture.
Losing frauddogg sucks, but I get it.
And I hope frogmanfromlake can do some introspection.
This but invert them. Frogmanfromlake was a GOOD poster
@FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net can you just cool down with the FOIA argument?
Besides
“What profit {you} to bleed? Shall the dust praise {you}? Shall the worms declare {your} truth?”
I don’t wanna anyone else to ragequit and delete account or get banned, like the others before you
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Mood from whoever posted this a while ago
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(work in progress 🚧)Fr, it do be like that.
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People pushing weight loss in the fatphobia call-out thread
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We had a poll back in the r/CTH days and it was overwhelmingly white. Things may have changed since then, but I’d be surprised if hexbear wasnt still solid majority white
I attempted to respond in good faith just in case it might help convince some people to self-crit but seriously, the fact that so many people were willing to entertain that nonsense gives me very little hope for the site.
I find it really frustrating to read that thread and see you running in circles arguing points that already should be well understood. No, nobody here wants to make a website where cis men or white people aren’t allowed. I don’t know why hundreds of comments are necessary to tilt at windmills while we put words in marginalized users’ mouths. I saw the inverse happening much less frequently (and at this point I’m not even mad when people put words in the mouths of the users trying to play devil’s advocate or do debate pervertry; if you don’t want people to put words in your mouth, say what you mean, don’t launder it with rhetorical tricks).
Pretty cringe shit honestly. Guess we should stop saying death to America because not all Americans are bloodthirsty imperialists.
I know we’ve recently talked about having a bookclub, but seeing how few people have checked in on the Will to Change book club makes me think that there are many people that just refuse to confront whatever biases they are holding onto.
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seeing how few people have checked in on the Will to Change book club
If it helps, I’ve been reading it and just kinda lurking around the thread. I’m a few chapters behind so I haven’t contributed anything. I’d bet money there’s more people reading it as part of the club that haven’t posted anything. That includes people who browse the site but don’t have accounts.
If you did another book club, you’d still get plenty of people reading something they otherwise wouldn’t. It’s hard organizing stuff online because that’s the nature of doing stuff online. People get flakey about stuff. It’s the reason I don’t play any tabletop games online over Webcam. Hard enough meeting up in real life. Online? People disappear into the void all the time for whatever reason and are never heard from again.
Yeah, I figure there’s plenty of people like that. Heck I haven’t posted in every single thread there has been so far. But seeing how there’s people on thid site that still hold onto these misogynist/patriarchal views is disheartening.
But seeing how there’s people on thid site that still hold onto these misogynist/patriarchal views is disheartening.
Sad, because one of our Latino tovarshis @Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net fell to this brainworm and got
I stayed out of that thread because I’m a cishet he/him. Maybe I have brainworms, but it seemed pedantic? Obviously “he/him” isn’t a gender. It’s also obvious when someone says “he/hims are not beating the misogyny allegations” what they’re referring to.
One of the issues with patriarchy is it benefits men, regardless of other oppression that occurs or whether men want to take part in reinforcing it. Trans men, gay men, cishet men, men of color, etc. etc. are going to have those biases because patriarchy will force it on them. We have to be consciously thwarting those biases and sometimes that’s easier when you’re part of another marginalized group compared to being a cishet WASP.
And again, maybe my cishet brainworms prevent me from seeing what the deal is. I just don’t take it personally if people want to vent about the awfulness of men. I know what they mean and what they’re referring to. They aren’t accusing me personally of sexual harassment, for example. They are referring to the general behavior of men to sexually harass people. The only thing I can do is listen and then tell other men saying and doing shitty things to shut the fuck up and stop it.
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i am so, so done with this site. feeling very tempted to leave but i’ve got to hang out for the sake of my em_poc and fat and disabled comrades but ughhhhh
Oh… feels hard on ye, tovarshi… hope ye do good
