On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.
Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.
Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them 
, its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.
dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also
Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?
I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here
Megathreads and spaces to hang out:
- π Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
- π₯ Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
- β Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
- β¨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread
reminders:
- π You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- π Hexbearβs algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- π Sorting by new you nerd
- π If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
- πΆ Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
- β€οΈFoundations of Leninism
- β€οΈAnarchism and Other Essays
Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry
someone make my thoughts into an effort post my brain is too fried right now
what im thinking is that anti-capitalism, or anti-establishment themes, have been rising in media recently. squid games, the boys, parasite, etc. there are loads of satires of modern politics about how rich people suck and are racist - the menu, bodies bodies bodies, and some i havent seen like dont look up. these are permitted to be produced and marketed to mass audiences by capitalists because crucially, they dont actually present any solutions. they show rich people being bad and poor people being fucked over, but the resolution is always just "shits fucked, oh well, we live in a bad world". they point out that things are bad but don't entertain the notion that things could be better.
consider how many movies and shows criticise modern politics and society for example - it seems like there are several of these movies made every year that become successful. now compare that to how much media is made that presents a solution, or shows people fighting back. how many popular shows have presented joining a union as a solution? how many have portrayed communism positively? how many show the satisfaction in the fruits of your labour being owned by you, rather than how many show how disheartening it is for them to be stolen?
anti-capitalism is for sale. you can consume the products that make you feel like something is changing, because some people in hollywood wanted to tell a story that acknowledges that things are bad. ive watched three shows in the past few years that actually do present radical solutions - the boys, andor and fallout (all sci-fi lol, i dont even like sci-fi that much). fallout shows communists as decent people, and capitalists as evil, but thats about it. the boys is kinda about a group of anti-fascist revolutionaries/vigilantes, but is always teetering on the edge of liberalism and seems more concerned with being anti-trump specifically as of season 4. also it constantly tries to prove that being too violent in resistance to fascism is bad. andor is actually good so far, presenting small anti-fascist acts as meaningful, mainly the funeral in the last episode, and will in season 2 lead to andor joining the resistance for real and becoming a legit freedom fighter. also it has space stalin.
its very ironic that disney and amazon are the companies producing the most radical shows, but again, they're profitable right now and i guess not enough of a threat in their messaging to stop being made.
from https://redsails.org/the-swerve/
I think Lenin has a whole thing about this. Which, like, i hate it when our guys from 100 years ago had the same problem.
Reading the Manifesto near 175 years later and being like "NOTHING'S CHANGED BRO... NOTHING CHANGED!!"
I think this is part of a larger pattern, where being against oppression in the abstract but at the same time against concrete liberation, or dismissing the possibility of liberation out of hand, is the most natural form of ideology for the moderate part of the oppressor, at least in times of relatively stable struggle.
Idk... the phenomenon is, I think, called 'capitalist realism'...
"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead."
Free Guy (2021) is about how if you join a union and go on strike you will get a world of literal unicorns and rainbows.