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submitted 1 year ago by jack@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net
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submitted 1 year ago by jack@hexbear.net to c/politics@hexbear.net

Everyone is, rightly, talking about how emotionally fucked up they are by the genocide in Gaza. There is much commiserating about how much pain and suffering we are all experiencing by being forced to witness these events unfold. Most of us on Hexbear live under Western governments that openly endorsing it, which only compounds how horrible it feels.

If you aren't taking action as much as you're able, you need to be for a couple of reasons.

  1. The scale and speed of the crisis demands it, particularly if you are living a comfortable western lifestyle.

  2. Posting and whining without action will drive you into a terrible depression.

  3. Taking action is palliative emotional care for the person doing it.

Go to a rally, donate, but most importantly, join an organization. Let this drive you to become an active revolutionary organizer.

I have been a PSL member for about a year and a half now, but I've never been more active than in the past three weeks. I have dedicated an hour or two every day, at least, to doing concrete work on this. My message to you wailing and gnashing teeth is that it helps. I feel better when I can look at myself and say "I did not sit idly by today". At the very least, do yourself the favor of being involved.

Communism is the movement to abolish the present state of things. If you are not a real member of that movement, you are not a real communist. Step up. This should motivate you, not turn you into a helpless slug.

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submitted 1 year ago by jack@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net

Being vegan in 2023 is extremely easy, but to me that seems like a relatively new phenomena.

So if I put you in my vicious time machine and sent you until the dim past, how far back would you be vegan?

I think I could make it work for most of the 1900s. But if I was in 1500 I'd give it up.

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Ugh, weddings (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jack@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net

I love weddings but they are awful at catering for vegan guests. The one I'm at currently even had us select vegan on the RSVP but the only option here is a basic lettuce salad. Now I'm gonna have to leave early so I can eat something.

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My wife can't handle a spider that huge right on our window so I gotta move her. It's knocking down the web when she's not in it sufficient?

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submitted 1 year ago by jack@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net

Ouchie my tum and my ethics

Anybody have any recent accidental non-vegan food? Do you bother to feel bad or do you just say "mistake's a mistake"?

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Successful hunt (hexbear.net)
[-] jack@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago

Here in the US, the people rule.

This is literally objectively not true:

https://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/princeton-experts-say-us-no-longer-democracy

The US is not, and has never been, a democracy, because the people do not direct the actions of the government except on the margins. There is no democratic input on imperialism or capitalism. Those are invariate, and the system is designed to protect those from public influence.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Absolute potato brained worldview

[-] jack@hexbear.net 116 points 1 year ago

We are not brigading. We're just extremely online and this post came into our feed like it did yours. Are we not allowed to comment on posts in our feed?

[-] jack@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

have they never seen a biracial person on tv? like?

they don't watch that woke crap frothingfash

[-] jack@hexbear.net 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't defederate, I'm the only person keeping !ohio@midwest.social and !cleveland@midwest.social active. The power and frequency of our posting is a boon to the rest of the Lemmyverse.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Can I get a :debate-pervert: from a lemmygrad comrade?

[-] jack@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know the US is upstanding because it won't even bribe its own citizens by giving them anything that would improve their lives no matter how hard they vote. True democracy!

[-] jack@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China ~~helped other counties improve the material conditions of their people~~ bribed the dumb dark folk.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

NO, PRIVATIZE IT NOW, PRIVATIZE IT NOW spongebob-i-fucking-love

[-] jack@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Sure, we could end child poverty with a snap of our fingers, but what if we stoked the flames of global conflict so we could privatize and exploit the poorest country in Europe? All it costs is their dead children!

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