So happy to be here for 4 years with all of you, to another year of posting!

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Yay I can post this now

My coworker told me the other day about how someone who used to work here got fired for bringing in their PS4 and playing video games on the clock using their work computer monitor and the entire time I was like

On my way down to DC to protest Netenyahu's speech and send a message to all the genocidal monsters in congress

This is a good way to celebrate Hexbear's anniversary, my favorite post/event has to be mkuktrawide coining the phrase Genocide Joe and today I represent the corner of the internet where it happened

4 years ago, I was waiting on the Discord for the site to launch. Then the site launched and I was like "hell yeah"

Still the best site on the web

But I'm a girl now

hell yeah 🏳️‍⚧️

Used the prolewiki page on the "Holodomor" to convince someone with no prior knowledge that the prevailing narrative on the subject originates in Nazi propaganda and they immediately accepted it hell yeah.

Seeing IT guys and programmers joke about how expensive AWS is now, and I guess it's funny how everyone saw this coming but noone had a plan for it.

4 years ago I was a delusional fool who believed both in liberal reformism and that I was a cis man. Now we're here

I have never seen astroturfing as effective as what's happening for Kamala right now. It's actually terrifying, leftist TikTok creators are getting destroyed in the comments of their videos for speaking out, and the libs are naturally eating it up. This to me is eerily reminiscent of the Obama campaign in 2008, back when I was still a lib myself. Kamala is not nearly as charismatic, but I am sure we still see some very forced parallel imagery.

It's very early and time certainly has accelerated in the past few years, but unless something crazy happens between now and November, my instinct is that Trump is going to get steamrolled. They are running her as the younger cool mom candidate vs the nasty old white man, non-jaded zoomers will eat it up and they will set themselves up for their own Obama disillusionment in a few years. Nothing will fundamentally change.

here's to four more years of "is hexbear dying?" posts

happy birthday to the transgender communists on my phone.

four years ago i was on holidays (like 50km from home because it was pandemic times) eagerly refreshing my phone to see when chapo.chat would launch.

now i eagerly refresh my phone to see replies in my inbox and also i have pronouns

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

When we were all dirt_owl for a day

Four years of this place, makes me sad I missed it. Wife brought me here last september or so? and I made my account in November. Pretty cool webzone, hats off to the feds for orchestrating the creation of such a neat site.

4 MORE YEARS! 4 MORE YEARS!

gonna shamelessly use this post to celebrate almost 3 years of hextube cinema !

[content warning: many flashing images]

just got a 25% raise at work unexpectedly! Apparently it's what I should have been earning this whole time, as our union forced the employer to do an equal pay analysis and I was being paid 25% less than I should have for my experience and education. First time in my life I can remember feeling the financial burden ease instead of tighten

Thank you to Hexbear and all of the comrades here for keeping me sane for the past 4 years. Without Hexbear I would still be posting in the trenches of r*ddit, arguing with the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. This website is unironically helping me stay sane.

Special shout out to @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net for cooking up the megathreads.

I started doing an exercise routine again. I forgot how much it sucks at the beginning, everything is so sore.

My next reps are gonna be two sets of straight snoozin' Might take me all day but I'm ready to make that commitment.

New Megathread nerds! 4 MORE YEARS 4 MORE YEARS

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

it is july 24 and stalin saved the world from fascism

How the fuck has it already been 4 years?

I'm actually glad reddit went to complete shit over the app bullshit. Otherwise I'd never have learned about Lemmygrad and subsequently Hexbear. These communities are the first time I really felt like I have a place online where I fit and that isn't a pickme contest like on FB or Twitter.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HEXBEAR!

Not me developing feelings the instant a cute girl shows me a simple kindness haHa FUCK

Good night everybody

the Netanyahu standing ovations are so fucking depraved and the only non-Hitlerian elected official in the country is Rashida Tlaib, death to this excuse for a nation and a thousand apolitical gooner Pensyltuckians upon the halls of congress

"Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency." - Mao Zedong

wage labor is extremely fucking good at making you feel like you're wasting your one precious life, shit is so fucking cool it owns so much

Fucking hate this country. My aircraft was changed to a 737Max

I appreciate the mods and admins keeping this place useable and even enjoyable. It's a thankless and annoying job and you seem to not become self-important power mods/users over it, so thank you.

found a pic of my bearded dragon (RIP) heightmogging me from like a decade ago and I think the people should witness

AI generated Picture of elderly bear in bed: “how many likes can this patriot get?”

FOUR MORE YEARS

My wife just dropped a super complicated Lego sculpture my kid built and since I'm sick with nothing to do I was like ok I'll fix it

She just dropped it again and I heard all the pieces scatter lol

someone make my thoughts into an effort post my brain is too fried right now

what im thinking is that anti-capitalism, or anti-establishment themes, have been rising in media recently. squid games, the boys, parasite, etc. there are loads of satires of modern politics about how rich people suck and are racist - the menu, bodies bodies bodies, and some i havent seen like dont look up. these are permitted to be produced and marketed to mass audiences by capitalists because crucially, they dont actually present any solutions. they show rich people being bad and poor people being fucked over, but the resolution is always just "shits fucked, oh well, we live in a bad world". they point out that things are bad but don't entertain the notion that things could be better.

consider how many movies and shows criticise modern politics and society for example - it seems like there are several of these movies made every year that become successful. now compare that to how much media is made that presents a solution, or shows people fighting back. how many popular shows have presented joining a union as a solution? how many have portrayed communism positively? how many show the satisfaction in the fruits of your labour being owned by you, rather than how many show how disheartening it is for them to be stolen?

anti-capitalism is for sale. you can consume the products that make you feel like something is changing, because some people in hollywood wanted to tell a story that acknowledges that things are bad. ive watched three shows in the past few years that actually do present radical solutions - the boys, andor and fallout (all sci-fi lol, i dont even like sci-fi that much). fallout shows communists as decent people, and capitalists as evil, but thats about it. the boys is kinda about a group of anti-fascist revolutionaries/vigilantes, but is always teetering on the edge of liberalism and seems more concerned with being anti-trump specifically as of season 4. also it constantly tries to prove that being too violent in resistance to fascism is bad. andor is actually good so far, presenting small anti-fascist acts as meaningful, mainly the funeral in the last episode, and will in season 2 lead to andor joining the resistance for real and becoming a legit freedom fighter. also it has space stalin.

its very ironic that disney and amazon are the companies producing the most radical shows, but again, they're profitable right now and i guess not enough of a threat in their messaging to stop being made.

i've said variations of this before but in honor of the site's bday: this site is truly a window into what a kinder and more humane internet might look like. genuinely kinda baffling it exists, in a good way. (should still be named chapo . chat though you fucking bastards, the original subreddit was a wild and wonderful place and the pod is fine-to-good, why erase our history )