It’s the only place where my cynicism and disdain for the current state of the world is met with commiseration and validation. At the same time, it’s not a complete echo chamber like most spaces. There are plenty of people here that have the same perspective, but still challenge each other’s ideals in a healthy constructive way. It’s a pretty diverse place.
Ily all
this site made the world make sense. there's so much doublespeak that i hadn't wrapped my head around:
- the West is historically extremely awful & the West is amazing and civilised
- Western democracy is broken af & Western democracy is the only democracy
- racism is minimal and actively combated against & racism is endemic
- non-socialist anti-imperialist states actively free people & non-socialist anti-imperialist states actively oppress/colonise people
there are so many more examples, but being exposed to this site showed me there was a way out of the imperialist core. this site to me is a blessing
Same
You know how to make me smile. The rest of the internet does the opposite, not to mention anything on the Polish side. Without Hexbear I'd be miserable.
What if you yelled into the void and the void yelled back “same tbh”? Pretty neat I think.
Some of the struggle sessions were actually helpful for me, eg DPRK or transsexuality.
Tbh, same. It’s a lot better than what usually happens when I yell into the void: fascists screaming at me
I don't think I'll ever be a huge, huge poster. But what this site offers to me as a lurker is hope. Sometimes I feel like we live in hell on Earth and part of the punishment is that no one else is allowed to acknowledge it, but we acknowledge it, we call it out, and we commiserate. I wish I was closer to people here but sometimes just waking up and seeing that other people see it too is enough.
Fully agreed, it’s very validating to see other people acknowledge a lot of horrible realities most handwave or deny. It can really throw you into a solipsistic spiral when everyone around you seems to gaslight you or completely deny reality as you experience it. Simply seeing other posts here that I can really relate to has helped my mental health significantly
Everything
Hexbear showed that what I was seeing and thinking wasn't me being absurd, it was western society which is busted and horrific and there are frameworks through which to view about it, things to be done, and that there are soooo many leftists who aren't fuckers about queer issues.
Also the caliber of person here is on average so much fucking higher than anywhere else I've been online. What cool comrades, what incredible posters.
I was on .ml for like a year so this account is new but it was what tipped me over the edge into really recognizing the lifetime of propaganda I was fed and how the people and politicians I thought were the 'good guys' do not care about people like me in the slightest. So you can say it was the final catalyst for my radical transformation.
Before I stopped using Reddit, chapo was "that one subreddit that got banned for wanting to kill people" but I started reading the posts people make here about North Korea and other countries that I made fun of and thought were just 'bad' and it made me start thinking about it.
My path was coming from being a very individualistic and selfish teenager, to a standard liberal cheering on the war on terror and several times at risk of falling into alt right ideologies, to a Bernie supporter, to a vegan, and finally ending up here. I don't want to call myself a communist or a ML yet because I don't know well enough how I'd respond if someone asked what that really meant, but I'm getting there and it feels right.
People make jokes about how posting isn't praxis and most people's time would probably be better off doing something else. But I don't think I would have gone further beyond in my intellectual and personal development and really criticized my past self to figure out why I had those views, why I was so selfish and why I and other people who still think that way are wrong. Mainly because there was nobody in my physical space that would have introduced me to those ideas.
"that one subreddit that got banned for wanting to kill people"
Which people?(it was slaveowners)
Yeah, that context usually wasn't explained when other people would talk about it.
Or are they?Modteam Michael here.
How do you know you're not asleep right now? Or that you've ever been awake at all? A study in 1966 by McGill University study showed that the brain is actually more active when it's asleep than when it's awake. The latin phrase "Cogito, ergo sum" was famously stated by Renaissance philosopher Rene Descartes, commonly translated as "I think therefore I am" but perhaps he should have said "I dream therefore I think."
Anyway, everyone posting in this thread is banned.Anyway, everyone posting in this thread is banned.
Damn I gotta post now
GOOD comment
i just like that i can post here and not worry about getting banned for criticizing israel, amerikka, capitalism, white supremacy, etc. i hate having to walk on eggshells on reddit and constantly getting banned/lectured to by the dumbest liberals on earth
Hexbear helped me deal with my dad's death. I probably don't have anything I can say that's going to be bigger than that.
this site is the only place on the internet where there are people with good opinions, even though there are some bad opinions as well, truly a land of contrasts
a place that makes me less depressed, which actually means quite a bit
you’re nothing more than insomnia feed to me. but please keep posting
i see you all as tools for the destruction of all cisgenderkind
AND PROUD OF IT
though for real this site has been useful for helping trans people out thanks
This site had been a pressure valve for me to rant and scream into a somewhat more comfortable void when I was otherwise surrounded by people I didn't like socializing with that had political views that made it hard not to stare daggers at them day after day.
Even now, in a nicer place that I'm much happier in, I have a bit of sentimentality about it and it's still a nice place to talk.
Habit-forming, unfortunately. I sometimes get so distracted being here that I put off stuff I really should have done first.
I am the posting.
Not part of hexbear but I think most of you are the coolest part of Lemmy especially !vegan@hexbear.net
its a fun little site
EVERYTHING
genuinely not sure I'd be alive today without it
it's been a hard year, and I've been absolute ass at replying to anyone who responds to my posts, but the responses have absolutely given me life and kept me going
idk where I'd be without you fuckers ❤️ love you dearly
without this site I'd either be more outgoing, more covid-addled (likely both), or dead.
