Just in case you're being told that you're enjoying this too much or too little. (hexbear.net)

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[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

I see more negativity about Mamdani winning than I have seen about ICE raids lol

[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Nobody is saying the ice raids are a victory for socialism

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

this

[-] blunder@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Hexbears falling over themselves to be correctly pessimistic and cynical:

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Hexbear be like:

GOOD THING: BAD

What a bunch of fucking rubes! doggirl-smart

[-] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

0% chance he actually does any of that lol. he's obama all over again

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Free busses, refusing to raise price of rent stabilized apts and expanding an already existing childcare program are well within the realm of possibility. Hes not trying to abolish the police or Mao all the landlords . Yall say hes lying bout the good things he's been focused on, i think he was more likely lying about "playing nice" with zionists.

As much as I would like to hear a politician be like "death to amerikkka!" I also understand its not a winning campaign strat.

[-] blunder@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

What else do you see in your crystal ball?

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

the apparatus of capital arrayed against him

[-] PowerLurker@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

eh, a loooooooot of the doom/depression posts here from US users are undergirded by fear and despair around the imperial boomerang creating man made horrors beyond comprehension domestically, ICE being emblematic of that. this reads as a bit of a strawman to me. most people seem soft pro-Zohran, but hexbear is (still, to my knowledge) a majority ML space so varying amounts of skepticism around the current face of the democratic party entryist movement should be expected.

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

THIS. Genuinely feels like something is very off here.

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

Honestly, the relatively little coverage of the ICE raids on this site has been really weird

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Seriously it seems odd that the doomers are so focused on the one good thing thats happened rather than the constant deluge of atrocity.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

If videos were easier to post/embed I would repost footage here but I'm not sure how to get it to play properly.

[-] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Optimism waves are difficult to handle when people are struggling, specially when left without an outlet to channel that frustration into something that would advance their own lives being better.

I think of how difficult it is for myself to stay positive when the local orgs I've reached out to have no use of me and all I can really do is write letters to people or something like that, in order to agitate them and make them think a little hopefully, through a one person operation.

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

I get it. Am a teacher in a deeply red area. Trust me, I feel the frustation of having no organizing outlet. But it just feels like doomerism to scold people for having any hope.

[-] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

I think you're right. Educating people on the flaws on electoral politics is one thing, but being outright mean to them is hinging on being reactionary.