the em_poc thread should steel chair it up and get more comments than the news or trans megas
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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I agree, but Hexbear has a lot of white people—its roots on Reddit mean there’s a ton of them. Hexbear might be queer (which is very cool) but its also very white ...which is kinda cringe.
Lemmygrad might have some more POCs
Indeed, I think some actually posted here (eg. Makan, Rania/Aru, frauddogg, you)
Yeah, GenZedong also had a greater POC to White ratio. Shame they never moved to hexbear
Well, I'm here now... though I must say that most Lemmygraders don't post much to reach even 1k on their own platform's megathread...
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After getting dogpiled by white liberals for pointing out how Kopmala weaponizes her intersectional identities to trick marginalized groups into supporting fascism, I am completely fucking done with white liberals. No patience for them anymore, I don't want to talk with them or humor the lie they tell about us, that they are my friends. Friends don't shit on friends for objecting to genocide.
They want a white echo chamber, they can have it
Something something disappointed with the white moderate something something foxes and wolves.
They haven't changed in the 60 years since Civil Rights, where they had been even more useless than the century before.
You've repeated this phrase many times... a loading error possibly?
That being said, yeah, anyone who supports Kopmala, at best, doesn't care about genocide, at this point... 
"Many times"? Shit, must be a loading error. Possibly my mobile app is acting up :( I'll go try to clean it up from desktop and remove duplicate comments when I can.
Edit: oh yeah now I see it from mobile too, wtf. Deleting them now. Thanks
I've given up on trusting white people. Settlers should be required reading for the POC left. It'll save us so much disappointment and heart break.
There was a Twitter thread where an African American woman said that a tweet by a Palestinian American woman was "threatening" and got the whole soup of liberal crackers and the feds after her. Really endangering her life in the process.
The tweet was about how kopmala was coming to Chicago and how pro-palestine Chicagoans were ready for her.
It was cracker after cracker spewing the most hateful islamophobic nonsense at her that ultimately got the feds after her. Just straight up political intimidation.
I will never trust a white "leftist", "progressive", liberal in my life. I really thought things were going to change this time around. It didn't.
That's heinous. Downloading Settlers right now.
There's really only a small handful of white leftists -- leftists proper, not liberals -- I can fully trust, and the dividing line really seems to be where they fall on Palestine and the Democratic Party. If they support Palestine and want the highest echelons of the Democratic Party tried for war crimes, they're cool. If they waver or try to soften those stances at all, then they're really just liberals.
My (¡white!) partner warned me: "don't trust those white liberals, don't talk to them, don't try to pull them left. They're dangerous and they'll snitch on you as soon as the empire tells them their safety depends on wiping out the Left. I know you've seen what white people are like when they're attacking marginalized people, but I've seen what they're like from the other side. It's inhuman. They have no souls." I didn't listen. I should have listened.
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5th date with my (now) girlfriend led to sex 
Im thankful that my first time was with such a great person and that it was honestly really rad. Gonna see them again later this week.
You did it, Compy!
congrats! happy for you comrade
Been following this for the past couple weeks, proud of you
Hell yeah comrade
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I'm deeply satisfied with how I was able to comfort my darling 💚 through a very rough moment last night. Her happiness means everything to me. Not only do I love it when she smiles, but I greatly love contributing to it.
Thanks, Anhel, for the new thread!
Anhel
I'm not Hispanic... 
inhale
IN HELL
TF2 is woke for having an alcoholic handicapped black scottish mercenary
Back in the day most gamers just went along with it. These days the usual suspects would loose their shit over a black scotsman kinda funny (sad)
Im really happy for you. You know that I have been rooting for you since the start.
CUTE.
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yeah because it was a colony of the US for a long time (and unofficially still is)I decided Im gonna post a bit more of my life in this thread. Me and my girlfriend are planning to stay together over night this week. I think its important to see if you can spend some "real" time together and not go on each others nerves. I just wanna spend more time with them. Every time we met ... I wanted to spend more time with them after they left.
My girlfriend is pretty good on some topics like race, gender, Palestine, capitalism. Despite being from the imperial core.
Will post more as I have time.
Looking at the amount of posts in this mega and the trans mega (I post in both) got me thinking about how cracker-core this website is.... 
It still is one of the few places on the internet that isn't blatantly racist on a regular basis so that's nice ig, but damn. Reddit demographics I guess 
My Twitter and tiktok are started to sound similar which is annoying because I would use 1 to decompress from the other. I think it's all just election season related which means it'll be terrible for longer than I can endure. Maybe this will finally kill my phone addiction.
i don't use tiktok, but the few times i've been on twitter have been increasingly worse than the last. like at least with reddit i kinda wanna read the reactionary slop, but with twitter i just 
then close the tab
i would strongly advise you to stop using at least twitter, if you can. even lurking it gives you 
or smth lol
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Another week has gone by of not painting anything and having to listen to me mum's nonsense q_q
Maybe this weekend I'll play some paper Magic, but we'll see how my anxiety is doing.
Friends, give me the real skinny: how racist is tiki culture? I like how the funny cups look and I like fun colors and flowers.
What's a not racist alternative to this?
There are some tiki bars that don't do "tiki" Polynesian culture. But those are rare and very new, just trying to avoid the potential backlash while keeping the drinks.
I guess it's actually total cultural appropriation. I know the aesthetics are taken from different Polynesian cultures and the drinks are Caribbean rum drinks, but, damn, I think it's fucking awesome. I love it. I would prefer that than some boringly sterile White ass mixologist, craft cocktail bar. It's a shame tiki is such a White space too but, I don't know, something about tiki feels so much more comforting. You feel like you're hanging out on a nice beach, who doesn't like that? Maybe it's my own culture I project into it but I enjoy it.
Came across this YouTube video of yet another black YouTuber going to Harrison, Arkansas. You can tell it’s mostly white people pretending to be black commenting.
“he’s not racist. Just old school”- about a literal kkk member.
Or “I’m black and he’s not racist.”
White Americans have this vision that you aren’t racist if you spend time around poc or even fuck one. The only racists are people running around hurling slurs and violently attacking poc.
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Still aick wih covid 😷
rest up comrade
Rest well
Lending you some energy there, comrade
Time to actually do the list...
With that aside, how's everyone doing?
At least for me, fine, though acid reflux be fucking me up
Any exciting news,
A fella hexbear, LargePenis, is betting whether Israel is gonna get another military response by the Axis of Resistance's leader, Iran, and its other fellas
funny memes or stories, or
Nuffin'
interesting takes?
Thinking of one...
Edit: Cambodia, as a socialist project, was salvageable, until Pol Pot and his reactionary pro-peasant faction decided to override and purge the pro-Soviet and Viet-aligned factions of the Communist Party, and inevitably decided to cause war against Vietnam, in 1977-1979, in order to 'return' to 'primitive communism'
Read Cambodia, 1975-1982, by Michael Vickery, if ye want some understanding on what I'm talking about.
How's everyone doing?
I'm doing well, been trying to just focus on my physical fitness and skill improvement. Trying to retrain myself for employment purposes.
Any exciting news
I getting back into fighting games and I found a really cool POC/Queer community for fighting community. Lots of these katz are really cool and great at teaching systems and mechanics.
interesting takes?
Because I'm having to retrain myself I find myself reading about corporate jobs. I am thoroughly convinced that private tyranny is something that has been thoroughly normalized in our society. I find it so strange that everyone must do exactly as their employer says or face starvation. This isn't a new insight, but I do believe it's worth talking about always. As a worker/proletariat/regular dude, I think it's always important to focus politics on the regular everyday stuff, and I think a lot of regular everyday stuff gets overlooked because of how normalized it is. It’s really fuckin’ wack that private tyrants have made the idea that democracy only happens in the “public” space, and the “public” space is getting privatized more and more every day.
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I had a ghost burrito. I distinctly remember having a burrito in my fridge, but it vanished. I probably ate it, but I can't say for sure that something supernatural isn't going on.
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While back watched all of the Latino dub of DBZ, pretty great but trying to watch it through official channels like Netflix left me wanting. Maybe Crunchyroll gots it but I ain't paying for another subscription. Really brought me back to my time in Mexico when I was younger so that was fun not to mention it's pretty damn faithful to the original even if they keep calling the solar flare kaioken
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