I’ve gotten to meet a few people from here irl and they were all awesome, I’d love to meet more of our comrades and I expect there’s a number of us who feel that way. Not would it be cool to hang out but as much as we wish it were posting isn’t praxis however meeting offline makes it much easier to actually accomplish something. My thought was either a sticky thread or new com. People who are down to meet can post their nearest major city and then handle everything else through DMs, that should keep the doxing to a minimum. Anyone else interested in the idea or am I just being dumb?
That said I did meet some real cool comrades when I went out to Pine Ridge, just be careful folks.
I’m super paranoid about the idea tbh.
But if you see a person dressed like Garfield outside your local city hall on new years carrying a vegan lasagna and demanding the abolition of mondays shoot me a dm.
Yeah everyone I’ve met has been pretty cool. If someone posts in /c/chicago I would go to a protest / bar / gun range. Dunno what leftists do outside of “work” but I enjoy hanging out and the cross-pollination effects of like “I joined this org it’s good” are productive.
I don’t care about anymore I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings. Fuck it we ball
I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings
I know we talk about how we’re all on a list but this is wild
I made a FOIA request for my FBI file and it got denied under 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A) which is the one about active law enforcement proceedings
you’ve done more than just post online presumably?
Honestly not much more. I first requested records about myself and got “no responsive records”, and then remembered to include the boilerplate about cross-references + administrative records + etc and got the blanket denial. So I figure that I’m named in an investigation into somebody else. Maybe they grabbed my email from Pilsen Community Books, which the FBI is/was surveiling over their involvement in pro-abortion and anti-cop-city movements. The Intercept ran an article about it awhile ago. Or maybe some people I know do Cool Shit and have wisely not told me. I filed an appeal so I might find out.
good luck finding me as i am a maoist guerrilla sleeper agent living under a pile of leaves in an undisclosed forest posting from a satellite phone
. Just join an org, you’ll meet at least a few of us that way.
Yea anybody in a city where there would be other Hexbears willing to meet up would for sure have a decent organizing presence
Though I will say the idea of befriending people you organize with low-key feels like office teammate friends
Complaining about an org’s culture is one of the strongest bonding activities you can have. Just ask all the ML/MLM/Lux/CCs/Syn/etc stuck in the local Trot org over the years 1980-2015.
Shitting on Trots isn’t even slightly controversial everybody hates them haha
This is not actually true, the vast majority of posters do not join orgs and the vast majority of organizers do not post outside of mainstream social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tiktok).
I joined a local org with 30+ members and none of them have ever even heard of Lemmy before
I’d say it depends on the org. This is a bit uncharitable to all involved but some orgs are described as having the vibe of an IRL reddit meetup (often DSA in my experience). If you go to those ones I bet you’d find a few posters. I also met a few old r/CTH users at a PSL meetup. But yeah if you’re just trying to find like-minded people join an org. Shop around to figure out whether you like the vibe, which imo is more important that whether you totally agree with them at this stage of left-wing development in western countries. You should actually look forward to meeting your comrades, not have an “ugh I would rather…” attitude.
I can’t really speak for other people, but I was involved with orgs before I joined Hexbear. Also, maybe considering joining more orgs and meeting more people. I feel like joining one of the national and well known orgs would have a better chance of meeting one of us. If I remember right a few orgs are either/or, but the IWW should be chill. About 80,000 people voted for PSL in the last presidential, and there are like 1,000 consistent Hexbears + Lemmygraders, so if you meet above 80 IRL people there is a good chance at least one of them is a Lemmy user.
