I wish Americans would realize that people in Central America do not love Trump just because their immigrant chud coworkers do. He’s hated in the northern triangle (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) and loved by a minority, many of whom choose to move to the US.
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they are eagerly wielding the {claim} like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.
Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off {and that America is the most shining nation on the hill}
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Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. {of core-periphery labour and resource exploitation, American hegemony, so on and so forth}
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Can people be more specific about the situations on this site they're vaguing about 😭
I'm always confused when I log back on
Fucking same! I thought it was just me. 
This stuff makes Marx rambling about linen, in comparison, so clear. I'm here reading comments like 
My bad, this is the exchange I was vagueposting about.
I mean I'm very open to being wrong about stuff, but uhhh... I don't get it. Z Poster took some kind of victory lap about how my heuristic fell flat on it's face, but I really wasn't following by that point, so I disengaged. The hexbears all seem big brained enough to get it though judging from the votes, but nobody elae cared to elaborate.
Maybe my comment got seen as "syrian people should be so happy to be liberated by good guys HTS", but that feels like a stretch to me to interpret it that way idk
Thank you for the context, comrade 
My comment wasn't solely directed at you, you are definitely not the only person that does that
Edit: oh my god i meant to say youre not the only person 
You and frauddog stumbled into the middle of a vague posting thread about a specific current we had noticed in the news thread of people who were being pro-HTS and celebrating the fall of Assad.
That is the context. So frauddog essentially came in blasting all the white anti-imperialists and scolding them for not listening to comprador Arab shitlibs who don’t understand that the death of Syria is the death of Palestine and the axis of resistance. I have family and friends, all Arabs, who celebrated Assad’s fall because they are incoherent and kind of stupid libs. I don’t think principled communists who spend all day analyzing news with a Marxist analysis should cede even an inch to these people.
I’m the one being de-colonial hardliner here, yet you misinterpreted the context and claim I’m a white supremacist or whatever the fuck because I put compradors on blast.
I never once said “not all white people” I think I was quite clear I don’t give a fuck about defending white people. I was pointing out how colonizers launder their views through token compradors and that we can’t necessarily trust someone just because they aren’t white. Look at the fucking Palestinian Authority and the kingdom of Jordan, look at those craven self-hating cucks and tell me we should respect "subjects of empire" automatically without scrutiny.
That is the context.
Like I said in the news mega, I interpreted the comment as an offhanded quip akin to "omfg that's so relatable" to an experience that is genuinely very relatable (at least to me). So I think interpreting it as
frauddog essentially came in blasting all the white anti-imperialists and scolding them for not listening to comprador Arab shitlibs who don’t understand that the death of Syria is the death of Palestine and the axis of resistance
is going a bit far. Especially on a website where people are commonly shut down and ridiculed for existing-as-poc. If you wanted to go in on that line of thinking, you could have started a couple of comments up the chain (which was all about this same topic and much more explicitly so), instead of going for the comment that might make the majority white anglo userbase even just consider for a second their own systemic role in the lives of poc. That's my opinion.
But I do see where you're coming from better now, so I appreciate your reply. God knows I can relate to being surrounded by family chuds.
Free Palestine, from the river to the sea and death to america.
Honestly, I'm over that one. Just another not-like-us tryna browbeat us into accepting tacit white supremacy as the law of the world; that's the exact kind of mf my blocklist made for.
Next I'm finna have to hear crackers and foreign mfs who don't even live here and know nothing of our culture talm bout 'Black liberation and nationalism is "inherently reactionary" and "counterrevolutionary"'(in a country that has no real left) (don't laugh!) if we're not willing to fight for the same mfs enslaving us two hundred years ago
EDIT: Also, if someone can point out to me where "I'm pretty sure every single one of us has a story about getting talked over by a cracker" cosigns Al Qaeda zionists, I'd love to see it; 'cause mfs stay talkin out the sides of their necks apparently. It went from "I'm pretty sure every single one of us has a story about getting talked over by a cracker" (a neutral, all-around perennial, 'every single melanated subject-of-empire has a story LIKE this' statement), to "wElL sOmE oF tHoSe "cRaCkErS" aRe CoMmUnIsTs" at which point I say "y'know what, I'm not doing this, fuck off." At which point it was failed to fuck off so uhm.
The fuck? How does "some of those crackers are actually communists" not come off as going to bat for klan-assed mfs? And why do these crackers and coons from the news mega get to totally disregard disengagement from the thread?
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It’s always something along the lines of ‘Man, that obscure racist post someone made is really making me question my sanity’
And the post in question is just mildly insulting white women.
What i genuinely don't understand is why they aren't saying the user or describing the post without @ing someone
I got youre not allowed to restart struggle sessions but if youre vaguing, youre still mentioning the struggle session
yeah but the em poc com serves as a place to vent about such things without being harassed by crackers.
sorry ive been so busy everyone. i will respond to the dm's uhhhh maybe tomorrow, today is rough for me
I love how it's hella crackers crying in the mega about how all their favorite cracker modlog issues caught bans or "left because of mod heavy-handedness". Like, can these crackers please say what their actual problem is with their whole chest? If I've gotta see another cracker whining about a disrespectful becky catching a shorter ban than any he/him would catch for the same actions, and call what she did "no good reason", I'mma crash out again and a WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE are gonna leave with they fragile-assed feelings hurt.
Angel's right; this is the only mega I feel is worth engaging with at the moment. Also, what is it with foreign mfs and thinking Black folk should stand shoulder-to-shoulder with white supremacists and trust they'll work with us toward liberation? Nobody is immune to cracker thought apparently
They don't want to spend even the smallest effort to understand why said mod was removed. Yeah, I'm sure it's just "teenager clique drama." Not "mod advocating doing an adventurism while downplaying user concerns about bigotry."
Also this got me to see my post about blocktube got restored, hooray!
https://hexbear.net/post/3491664
TY @sweet_[email protected]
You have a blocktube, nice!
It's an older Firefox add on that got removed from the official add-ons list a while ago. I didn't make it, but that's the list of channels I have blocked. Someone a while ago was looking for a way to get rid of Simon Whistler recommendations, so that's why I made the post.
You're doing god's work
Like, can these crackers please say what their actual problem is with their whole chest?
If they did, they'd be thoroughly banned af, lmao...
Hence, the vague reasons such as the familiar "my father was killed in WW2 by the Russians, cuz he was ~~fascist~~ anti-communist"
My favorite is asking descendants of kulaks why their kulak relatives were liquidated. You'll hear some real ghoul shit like "Well it was their right to set an entire barn of wheat on fire, it was their property! But then big mean Stalin came and took away the rest of their grain so they couldn't sell it at a 1000% markup!"
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I give up. Apparently living in a world where white people talk down to you is an "imperialist narrative" and thinking about who is reading what you write is "post modern slop"
Every week the crackers give me a new reason to be sick of their shit, it's the new primetime tv
I'm like mildly apprehensive when my parents hit up old friends for any help with me landing a job, last job I was an emergency hire and dumped after a week while another place I just wasn't qualified for. Tempted on working on my CV first before I reach out because end of the day I really don't know how tight they are with each other/how useful it all is. Got that whole thing where parents think I'm good with computers when they don't know that that means something different in hiring (my ass can't code) since they don't know how to turn on any tech.
Has anyone else been triggered by anti discrimination training at work?
I was taking it the other day and like as the example of what not to do they literally just had a dude on their saying racist stereotypes about a fictional character with my name and I was like uhhh
Jesus, you prolly have a colleague with a grudge against you...
Lol nah it was a professionally prepared training video
I— :(( (hugs you so tightly if wanted)
Immaculate driving today!
WARNING USERS, THERE IS AN OPERATION BY RIGHT-WING TROLLS TO INFILTRATE HEXBEAR, BECAUSE THEY ARE MAD TRANS PEOPLE ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME , PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION
I feel sorry for them, they won't last the week.
I hate AI so much, especially when it's used by fellow em_POC who just want to pass their classes because academic resources are systemically denied to them. None of these people run local models they're just using models created by White techbros who want to see the world burn. I'm fearful for the amount of settler propaganda that Silicon Valley can disseminate just through the guise of being "a friendly AI assistant"
THERE IS AN OPERATION BY RIGHT-WING TROLLS TO INFILTRATE HEXBEAR
I'm kind of at a point where "honestly they were already here, look at the likes of Awoo and her news mega white knight~~s of the Confederacy~~ brigade"
I had talked about this a couple weeks ago on one of the general megathreads, but yeah. It honestly scares me a bit just how much the students I know talk about using it. One of my cousin's kids recently started college and he was telling me about how he got in trouble for using an AI to write a paper and the paper got flagged for plagiarism. Setting aside the plagiarism or even the settler propaganda as you mentioned, what does a student gain from having an AI write a paper for them. And its not like the educational system, especially in the US, fosters much critical thinking skills. In all my time working its always taken me aback just how little people seem to be able to do problem solving. AI is just going to make things so much worse.
Silicon valley is just a breeding ground for what parts of society they can capture and profit off of. Sure, Imperial Core Jimmy can pay 20 American bucks a month for ULTRA-MEGA CHATGPT INFINITY to give him all his answers but Global South Pedro has to do it "the old way" and he should strive to be able to buy AI services.
Imperial core Jimmy gets to cheat on his exams and also contribute to climate change destruction onto the Global South, Win Win for the US.
Guys I solved the UFO/drone craze.. apparently my plug started using a drone to sell 😭😭 so all these drones are just weed dealers, mystery solved! Thank you everyone