Introductions

Warning: Yapping

So basically, I'm 16. I never really said this before because I was worried about people disregarding my opinions, but after learning of a lemmygrad user who's about my age, I warmed up to sharing that fact. I guess I just forgot or something, but I'm not sure why I continued omitting that I'm a . Maybe I forgot. Anyway; the introduction!

I'm a queer Marxist teen from the U.S. I was exposed to the internet when I just spawned, so by like 8 years old I was watching those stupid ass "feminist debunked!!!1!!!111" videos (alt-right pipeline), but as my prefrontal cortex formed I gained compassion as well as sentience. I evolved into an 'apolitical' 'person' (I was like 11 so idk if that counts) and lived my life not really giving a shit.

An important thing to note going forward is that my parents are labor aristocrats, I won't be elaborating too much further for opsec reasons. We live in a town with a lot of wealth disparity, and many of my friends were not nearly as well off. This was always confusing as hell to me as a kid who was pretty sheltered from actual reality, and was always a point of contention with my (conservative) parents. It never made sense to me why some people had to struggle to get by and others lived lavishly, which led to me becoming really, really angry at everything.

The cognitive dissonance had apparently not infected me yet, because I still considered myself in the 'apolitical center' between democrats and republicans (), until I came across that Second Thought video about how centrism favors the right wing. By some miracle my mind was still malleable enough at 14 to be swayed by it, and I actually changed my mind about life. An even bigger challenge to my world video was those "Why you should be a Socialist in 20XX" videos, which I at first laughed off. Eventually though, I actually watched them, and my mind actually changed! I was convinced socialism was right.

So naturally, as any dumbass 14 year old socialist does, I downloaded a PDF of Capital and gave up immediately, eventually just reading wikipedia pages about different micro ideologies and watching Hasan Piker. Now, I was still an Amerikkkan, so my anti-AES and brainworms were still deeply rooted, and my 'one of the good ones,' Stalin was ebil, brainrot led me to be a Trotskyist. I read the permanent revolution, a bit of the manifesto (I wasn't much of a reader, if you couldn't tell by me being a trot), and got very zealous. Like, VERY zealous. I almost lost some friends over it.

A year or so passed and I discovered Lemmy somehow, and ended up on .world after a while. Now, this is where the .world admins made me the most dedicated teenage marxist in bumfuck nowhere, USA. They preemptively defederated from this super extreme socialist instance, putting up such shocking takes as "NATO is bad actually" and "the USSR wasn't as bad as Nazi Germany." Even as a brainwormed usonian, I wasn't dumb enough to believe that gommulism killed 2139438905 marxillion innocent babies, and I quickly left .world to join Hexbear.

And that's it, that's my leftist story. I was corrected in most of my shitty viewpoints by other marxists and anarchists here, I began reading and shit. Yeah. I don't really know what else to say or how to end this. lmao

Thank you for making me a well read Marxist, if anyone has any questions I'll answer it, I like answering questions.

Salutations!

tldr I'm a child

You're big, beautiful geniuses with the best brains and you're very smart, very good at the electoral so I would like your help to get my friend into county government

I'm from Athens County, Ohio. I was born and raised here, and I've lived here most of my adult life. Our famous exports include Jackie O's beer, Joe Burrow (who is very good at sports), and Sarah Jessica Parker (who was born in Nelsonville, but wasn't lucky enough to grow up there 💅). We're also the home of Ohio University.

My friend Jon Rose is running for Athens County Commissioner. He's a fashionable af devoted partner and dad in an 80s cover band and a real "never met a stranger" kind of genuinely friendly person. He is biconic and vegan. Look at him!

I think you would really like him.

I met Jon through a group organizing a caravan of Athens County residents to go to the National Equality March in 2009, when we were both members of a local LGBTQ org. Since we marched in DC, he has become a paramedic, helped unionize his fellow workers and developed a safe, physically active recreational area on his own property to help give the kids and adults in our area something inexpensive and fun to do in a sober environment. (Like many poor, rural areas, alcoholism and substance abuse disorder are rampant here.)

Yes, yes, I know how we feel about federal electoralism but local office is something that can actually have an impact on people's lives, and Jon is a popular, charming, well-spoken dude who is coming straight out of the ranks of our working class. Maybe this is worth a shot?

Athens County has always been a blue spot amongst the rural red in the southeastern part of Ohio, and it isn't uncommon for Democrats to run for local office unopposed in the primary, general, or both.

My (extremely inexpert) analysis is that this is because the local business elite realized decades ago that it was easier to run Democrats in college towns, and it is difficult for anyone outside this entrenched group of favor-traders to run for office. The number of landlords in local government is too damn high.

The poverty and shitty internet availability makes it hard for anyone without means to even know where to start. How do you do any research on this when you know absolutely nothing, barely have time to think or enough to eat, and you have to walk up the ridge a little bit to get enough cell signal to use the internet?

In February, a clerical error kept Chauncey Mayor Andrea Renner off the primary ballot. She had one minor inaccuracy on her paperwork – the start date of the office she was hoping to win was off by one day – and tried to withdraw and resubmit, but the courts say there's not a process in our election law to correct your paperwork or withdraw and resubmit candidacy for a primary, so she's SOL.

My friend Jon Rose entered the race as an Independent in May. His opponent lived up to his asshole reputation by immediately filling Jon's neighborhood with his campaign yard signs; meanwhile, Jon is still struggling to come up with the money to buy any signs at all. Donate here after you're done blessing everyone at /c/mutual_aid.

I'm not officially associated with the campaign at all, I just really like Jon and have been dying for someone to bring this kind of energy to public office here.

I'll post more about Jon's campaign and the history of Athens County (Mound Builders! The Underground Railroad! Labor Battles!) in relevant comms. Meanwhile, I'm here to say hello, do my best to answer your questions about Athens County, Ohio, and Jon, and thank you in advance for your encouragement, advice, and assistance.

Thank You.

The allure of the best emoji game in the Lemmyverse and very cool pronoun tags has caused me to return from a slumber in some filthy Pokéball, probably. I just can’t stop myself from shouting about Covid, too. Wear a mask, you lowlifes.

Hello!

Grandparents I never met, every one raised by wolves, never seeing another human in their lives. I was raised by MOON ROCKS on the dark side of the MOON.

I did not know the Earth or any other living being existed before this very moon-morning. Independently, I invented language, the iPhone, WiFi, and 5G. I built my very own rocket ship and launched my very own satellite. Imagine my surprise when my iPhone connected to this network, the "internet", where I found this site hexbear.net¹

I exist outside of any context, and I now understand my true purpose, and the power that I wield. I can end the neoliberal world order with 5 words.

1: Which I also independently invented my own version of, where I wrote comments to myself to keep myself entertained and to practice language.

Hi Tseiran!

I've been away long enough that I noticed this "howdy" side to the site and decided there was no better place to visit first.

I've lived just about all of my life in California and have worked as an educator, along with numerous and varied proletarian jobs with varying amounts of precarity. While some seemed to have liked it there, even thrived there, I hated it there. Just being in the teachers' lounge, or for that matter existing in public, seemed to be an open invitation to be involuntarily exposed to the worst of "hustlegrind" and "startup" culture. It may have been because of the specific area I was in (if you know Mountain View to Palo Alto to maybe Sacramento, you'll get what I mean), but these intrusive interactions, where a stranger could and would (if you look passably perhaps) get propositioned to "get in on the ground floor" with some grift or another, were bleakly common. Similarly, because of the sort of painfully privileged yet socially malnourished environment, just about nothing was discussed by my fellow faculty or other people I associated with except the pop cultural monoliths of the time, which I had to absorb via cultural osmosis in the worst way. Anticipating grading papers for the next few hours didn't get any easier when "DAE LE RED WEDDING?!" and "DAE LE SHAME, SHAME?!" was all anyone around me wanted to talk about, unless they were discussing some investment or how "epic" (yes, that old stale word remained in vogue way after its expiration date) someone's new Tesla was.

That's why I risked everything, cashed in my retirement fund early, and with eyes forward to becoming a father and finding a better place for my family, I moved to the Atlantic northeast to start an agricultural project that I intend to expand beyond sustainability into a communal project . It's hard work, and of course it's hard work, and it's still a work in progress. For OpSec reasions I don't want to get into too many details there except to say that it's all a work in progress and it's difficult, but rewarding. .

I like it here. I like it here quite a bit. There's funny people, weird people, even scary people here and there around me, but I haven't had a single conversation that I would qualify as "bazinga" since I arrived. I haven't seen a single ZYBERTRUKKK either, except pictures of them getting mocked on the internet. . I don't know if it's just the area I now live in or if it's a larger cultural shift, but as far as I can tell there's no more pop cultural monoliths that I had to be force-fed just by being around hogs gobbling up the hog slop, being it "historically accurate" or "satirical" or whatever.

I bring that up because I have no great interest in waddling into the slop anymore, to argue about it or against it for that matter, largely because I have not had to for almost a year now, and that makes a huge difference.

I still set aside time to write when I can, and my next novel project is nearing the completion of its first draft. For those curious about that, there's no mecha this time (THIS TIME ), and it's a more contemporary setting with only some slight background science fiction elements. I may share more details about that in an upcoming post if there's interest.

I hope you and yours are well, comrades.

EDIT: I accidentally said "there's mecha this time" instead of "there's no mecha this time" and corrected that immediately.

I am a regular from way back, I have been around since some time, but I keep deleting my accounts whenever I think I need a break. I have autism and adhd, I am trans and genderfluid, I like animals, I speak a bunch of languages to the point of it being identifiable information. Somwhere from the accursed contintent of Europe

Hello, finally made an account after finding the will and motivation to get off my ass and uni's out for the summer so more free time! I'm in my early 20s and you can guess a few things about me due to my username (currently living in europe tho but trying to get tf out). I wanna learn more and talk to other comrades since most people I'm surrounded by are either libs or chuds. Just trynna get by while helping spread communism globally and merking imperealism so my children and all other future gens inherent a better world. I play some instruments, draw, do sports to name a few things and am interested in getting into pottery in the near future. Hope to interact more with the community!

It’s been a bit since I joined, and this is not my first post. But howdayy 🥴 My interests are cooking and plants! I also like yapping…. It’s nice to be able to find my community!!! Pic is a big bird I saw few weeks ago. I think it’s a crane (not sure)

Hi I'm radiofreeval but I didn't know how to delete all posts from an account without purging the whole account.

I had to do some digital hygiene. It was easier to scrub my profile than go through individual posts.

Sorry for messing up posts.

Just so nobody's worried or anything but I'm cleaning out my account and logging off to reduce my digital footprint.

Hi everybody! I've been lurking all the way back since the Chapo subreddit and never made an account there or here. I don't know why not or what changed in my weird brain to make me decide to finally do it last night, but I did and then the site almost immediately went down lmao, so sorry about that.

(Btw, does anyone know how to clear the second set of pronouns on your profile? I don't know how to deselect it. Not that I don't consider myself a comrade, it just looks a little redundant having double thems there.)

Howdy, I'm Beetle_O_Rourke

My radicalization journey started with reading the 2017 IPCC report, realizing nothing would be done, and then having my best friend send me a link to "Imperialism: The highest stage of capitalism".

Since then I've began the process of slowly de-brainworming myself. I discovered /CTH like a week or two before the ban, and somehow stayed through the hourly struggle sessions of early ChaCha

Ideologically I am a marxist of some sort, I don't have much interest in narrowing down which particular tradition best resonates with me.

I am a huge soccer fan with about 2600 hours in the Football Manager series.

Anyways, whats your favorite Snoop song?

Thanks to @[email protected], I realize I've never properly said howdy here either.

I have an account on Lemmygrad as well, I bounce between both occasionally (sometimes I want to just look at Lemmygrad local and see what's going on there).

I have a comm over there [email protected], which currently I don't use much, except for testing functionality of the Lemmy UI.

Furthermore, I'm very much a tech enthusiast, and will probably use that comm to play around with the Lemmy API, maybe test a LemmyBot.

Likewise, I also mod the [email protected] community, and try to be active there. It's a slow comm, and it might be difficult for folks to use, since it almost requires some exposing of personal information to participate. Being a parent really absorbs a lot of time, so while growing the comm and building its activity is something I think about, I often have no time to actually do it. 😅

Covid and my kids are definitely the cornerstone that defines my engagement with Marxism and Socialism in general. They both arrived at similar times, and this compounding pressure really accelerated my exposure to how things actually worked. Being ADHD also grants me this tendency to see the forest for the trees, and also be keenly aware of injustice and contradictions between actions and words. Also, love him or hate him, shoutout to Hasan Piker for being the tip of the slippery slope that eventually got me here.

I'm also deeply into TTRPGs, but as noted above, never have time to engage with them in the capacity I want. World building is fun and exciting, building a setting and letting others explore it is unlike any gaming experience I've had before. Playing the role of Game Master and hamming it up for the people I love is a real joy for me. I feel like I'm truly my weird and fun self, mask fully off, when running a game of D&D. It's very freeing.

The pendulum of time will eventually swing back into my favor, and I hold no grudges about where my time goes now. Kids are dope, and they're worth ever second (even when they refuse to go to sleep).

Anyway, I might delete this later. Who knows? For now, however, just wanted to say 👋 Howdy!

I just kinda realized I'ven't introduced myself before on this site

Also, tis my cake day so I guess it's time to make things right and tell my origin story:

My account came into major use around here, before Hexbears federation with Lemmyverse, because I was getting frustrated getting into Lemmygrad, which was federated and thus had some understandable but somewhat strict anti-brigading measures around here to register....

Hence, my name... (Lemmygrad allows me now, at least, in federation, and with current account, that I actually forgot existed)

Other than that, I feel if you met me in real life, I'd be too normie to interact with... especially for my age... so I don't have anything to bring to the table... especially cuz I got stuff to do...

Not just Mao as in Zedong but Meow as in cat sounds. I'm a Maoist (please don't crucify me) who's been lurking around Lemmygrad and Hexbear since I was a baby ML. As you can probably tell from my name, I'm probably a little too passionate about the environment, and want to add that even though nobody asked. I am also a big Free Software user and advocate, and am looking into a pair of programmer socks even though I can not, and do not, know how to code.

If you want to read more:

I used to live for the struggle sessions in the comments, but I will probably be garbage when it comes to actually contributing to them and other converstations. I can seem to develop my own thinking but I have a hard time putting that thinking into words (probably something to do with autism or ADHD or both, working on it).

CW: References Objectification, Language (feel free to let me know if I miss a CW or add too many):

TL;DR I'm new here and I'm not good at either IRL socializing or social media, so please bear (forgive me) with me if I Badpost outside of Badposting. If you got through the first part, thank you, and if you read the other parts, I just want to know how.

EDIT: Just want to that you all for coming and welcoming me to the platform! It has felt really great to finally have a voice, and I feel like more of an active participant than an observer with people who actually have good politics. Much love (I would add the hugging cat but I'm on Jerboa right now) to you all ❤️.

Hello, everyone! I'm a Marxist-Leninist from North America, who enjoys learning new languages. I'm also super into free software and Chinese animation.

Hi, everyone.

I'm a 20-year-old boy ("man" doesn't fit my vibe honestly) from the Netherlands. I'm autistic, AroAce, a little naive, a little innocent, and a bit all over the place. My mood can vary by a lot and I'll sometimes post about it when things get tough.

Some may know me from the r/TheDeprogram Discord (and its Weenie spinoff, teehee)

I have visited the site for over a year now, but now I've decided to create an account. Part of it is because I have questions about myself and personal feelings, and the neurodiverse comm seemed like a place where I could ask them. The people there seem kind and supportive.

Politically, while I tend to favour Marxist-Leninists, I have barely read any theory (sorry) and don't want to box myself in with a label, so I tell myself that I'm a "non-specified Marxist".

My interests are video games (usually more retro or relaxed, and not modern/mature AAA stuff), urbanism, space, tech, and I also gander at the anime comm usually, despite me not consuming the medium firsthand, with a few exceptions.

One thing you'll notice about me is that I have a fixation with Mega Man, and specifically the Mega Man Star Force series. I started playing the first game a year ago, when I was in my first year of university, and became depressed and hopeless about my life. The main character, Geo Stelar (hence my username), felt like a reflection of myself in many cases and of who I want to be. The game's themes of space, technology and hope combined with the retro aesthetic made me very attached to it, and the music has made me cry on many occasions. I never felt so understood and spoken to in my life, and it comforted me when I felt so lonely. It made me believe in myself again, and now I feel like I'm truly changing as a person, in no small part thanks to this game. I could talk for hours about it, I might make some effortposts about all my feelings about it one day.

That's all I have to say today. I hope you may enjoy my presence here.

"Pulse Out."

I like grilling... my wife, and drinking a cold one with the boys..... peace...

hey, i'm hmmm.
I've been lurking for maybe a year now. I'm currently figuring out my queerness (hexbear helped me a lot already). I like ttrpgs and video games. I feel kind of lost atm, so I thought I post.

This com is criminally underutilized. I'm Wake. I've been using this name for months on vrchat/elsewhere, and it felt appropriate to use it here.

I guess I've been here since the subreddit. I have a bunch of hobbies, most of which have been ADHD hyper fixations at some time. I like video games, movies, and I really like to listen to music. I especially enjoy finding new music.

I work in an industrial setting where I diagnose, and repair industrial machines and automatic systems. So I really like to figure things out. I've been taking things apart to see how they work since I was a little kid.

Most of the video games I play now are casual co-op games I can play with my friends like lethal company, valheim, phasmophobia. I also play a lot of driving and racing sims. But more than anything, the game I enjoy the most is vrchat.

I have a weekly vrchat adventure with one of my best friends. I guess you can say I'm an honorary furry at this point, since all my vrchat avatars are furry. I really enjoy editing and tweaking my avatar until it's exactly how I want it.

I changed accounts because about a week ago I realized I was much more trans than I thought I could ever be. That I'd been lying to, and hiding from myself for a decade. It's incredible how much transphobia you can absorb and internalize while also being gay and extremely lgbtq positive. So I wanted to make a new account to grow into. A nice delineation so to speak.

I guess at this point I'm just rambling so howdy, it's been so nice to have you all in my life. And wherever you are, know I love you and you're appreciated.