What’s the world coming to when you can’t trust the Pendejos for hard facts?

Someone has been posting Revolutionary Communist Party posters on the bus stops around town. People had been doodling on them, some of it inane, some of it humourous, and some of it reactionary; However, the other day someone plastered a load of pro-zionist stickers over the top of one. I walked past and a guy and his girlfirend were looking at it, so I went over to look too.

He saw the word Zionist, and said “well I don’t agree with that, I don’t want to kill Palestinians!” We spoke a bit more - he asked if I was in favour of the poster underneath, and I said I was. I think it was the first time I’ve ever actually told anyone around here I was a communist. I don’t know anything about the RCP, but it’s the thought that counts, ans this is a heavily conservative area. We exchanged names, shook hands, and parted ways.

After almost two years of horror, it’s nice that the man on the street seems to be realising that Zionism is synonymous with slaughter. It’s also nice to form some kind of connection with someone in real life over politics.

Also, hello, everyone! It’s been a while.

Heads up to anyone reading: at least one of the links on the CPUSA reading list is to a Zlibrary domain that was seized by the FBI, so you may want to search for those ones yourself

Just a reminder that de-Nazification didn’t really happen in West Germany

I think expat communities have something to do with it. I was listening to a podcast about modern reactionaries and nazis the other day, and they did an episode about Slavic Native Faith. The Ukrainian brand was started by a Ukrainian, but took off in the States long before it gained a foothold in the motherland.

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Wow, a lot of Americans literally shaking in that thread. The jingoistic pro-war rhetoric reminds me of the Howard Stern broadcast where they start calling for Iraq to be nuked

I agree with everything you’ve said, but it’s still a shame to see it :( It won’t age well at all, either.

Tbf this is actually a good example to point to of how consensus is reached on Hexbear, for all the people who think we’re bots or paid shills. And anyway, even when a consensus is reached, it won’t stop you from using the term in real life if the mods decide to add it to the filter. I don’t really have a problem with it, tbh.

Fun fact: Hungary has the northernmost Islamic pilgramage site in the world, Gül Baba’s tomb, and in Eger there is one of the northernmost European minarets. The Hungarians also inhereted lots of Turkish Baths from the Ottomans (Fürdőszóba in Hungarian, I think).

Ran out of my prepped meals today and wasn’t sure what to have, so I cobbled together a stir-fry and was shocked at how nice it tasted. It had red pepper, brocolli, garlic, tofu, rice, and soy sauce in it, because that’s what I had lying around. I have enough letfover ingredients to make the same thing again tomorrow too!

He probably shoved his head into their den to see if they had pups or something. Seems like the kind of daft fucking thing a squaddie would do

OP tells on themself. lol; lmao, even.

Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.

Seems as though he’s saying basically what most Hexbears are saying: that Ukraine is unstable, and without Western support it will fall. All Russia needs to do is hold out until the West gets bored or pivots to Taiwan, which is easier said than done, admittedly, but is possible.

I’m sorry to hear that this happened to you. I remember seeing my dad in the ITU when he got ill with COVID, and it’s not something I’ll ever forget.

We’ll defend Stalin, but not specifically for his record on Gay rights. It’s what we call Critical Support. Likewise with our support of Russia, although it’s important to understand why we have come to this consensus. This post gives a broad overview of our views on the Russo-Ukrainian war, but to truly understand our worldview would take years of immersion not only in our space, but other leftist spaces, and would require some reading. I’d recommend State and Revolution and Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin to start with, as I’m that way inclined, though others would point you in different directions. Ultimately however, it all comes back to Marx’s Capital.

What are you talking about? It’s the most explicitly pro-trans space I’ve ever seen. If your idea of autonomy is restricted to voting, that’s your problem. We believe in actual democracy, as in the voice of the people. Can you point me to a democratic system you aspire to which doesn’t ultimately exist to look after the interests of capital? That’s the problem we have with what you call democracy. The Nazis were promoted into power by establishment politicians to do exactly the same thing: protect the interests of capital by eradicating communists and trade unionists. The mass murder of Jews, Roma, LGBT people, and many other groups, was neither here nor there to the industrialists who backed the Nazis.

We will always react negatively to being called Nazis, because it’s so far from the truth as to be utterly laughable, if it weren’t so offensive to the members of our community who would have been oppressed by the Nazis, and who often are oppressed by modern bourgeois liberal democracies.

Britain in a fucking nutshell. Weight is kilos unless it’s people, in which case it’s stone or pounds and ounces for babies; fluids are ml unless it’s milk (excluding plant milk) or you’re ordering it from a pub, in which case it’s in denominations of pints: distance is taught in km but all roadsigns are in miles, etc.