Benjamin J. Davis, born on this day in 1903, was American lawyer and communist who was elected in 1943 to the New York City Council, representing Harlem. Davis was persecuted by the state via the anti-communist Smith and McCarran Acts.
Davis became radicalized through his role as defense attorney in the 1933 trial of Angelo Herndon, a 19-year-old black communist who had been charged “attempting to incite insurrection” because he tried to organize a farm workers’ union.
In 1949, Davis was among a number of communist leaders prosecuted for violating the Smith Act. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1962 Davis was charged with violating the Internal Security Act (also known as the McCarran Act), but died before the case could come to trial.
“Whether one agrees with the Communist Party or not, one must at least know the truth about it. One must not permit his ideas to be shaped by the hysteria which now passes as a ‘crusade against Communism’… For example, the canard that every Communist has his pockets lined with ‘Moscow gold.’ If that were true, one could be sure that there would scarcely be any room in our party for workers. The capitalists, to whom gold is god of the universe, would crowd them out.”
- Benjamin J. Davis
I hope you nerds have a good month of September 
Remember no crackers
remember when the site was all “libs killed #MeToo when it targeted biden”? the psl shit is the exact same thing. “don’t call out sexpests if those sexpests are communists” settler orgs gonna settler org i guess
The
s of this site are very good at being the very thing they claim to be against… and without realizing it.“Is it wrecker fed shit when abusers are allowed to walk around without consequences in positions of power within the org? No, clearly it’s the victims’ who are to blame for not shutting up.”
Whites will somehow ignore the title and com of a mega and the reminder not to post if youre white, make up a rule to be followed, acknowledge that they cant even find the rule, say youre upset when you literally said youre nosy aka curious, ignore that every notification says what com and mega its from, then have to be told theyre in the wrong mega and to delete their posts
And also say that the post you linked was harmless when it directly referred to a struggle session but then get butthurt when you link to the post because it mentions a struggle session???
Their thought processes or lack there of are genuinely interesting to me
A cracker posted here? That would explain some comments I couldn’t see due to blocking them lmao
They somehow didnt see what com they were in or what mega they were commenting on and whined about me not following a rule we dont even have here
Then got banned
Didn’t see what com they were in
Knowingly trampled over a POC-only space to spread their bad faith cracker hall monitor debatebro bullshit
Oh boy I can’t wait for our
cracker fedsfamily arrive to stay with us for a week because God forbid they stay at a hotel!Day 1 downish. Only 6 more to go! We have the following comments so far (CW: microaggressions, racism, general boomerism is a state of mind, ableism):
spoiler
Not even five minutes in the house, we were sharing some pictures. “No, that’s my older niece. She has a little sister, my other niece.”
“The dark one?” (in reference to a black teenager) 🙃
Capitalist brainworms everything has to be a hustle:
“Why don’t you sell your art?”
“Because social security will make you pay it back.”
“Who would tell them?”
“I would, because if they find out on their own it’s a felony with jail time.”
“Well you could probably sell some anyway. That doesn’t seem fair you can’t.”
Motherfucker, you’re the ones who voted these things into laws.
We drive past a gas station that’s over $6/gallon. “Gas prices sure are high! California has higher prices, though, because they banned offshore drilling. You get natural gas heating?”
“We do, but our state is limiting it as it’s not sustainable.”
“The gas companies just want more money. There’s lots of natural gas.”
Just on and on with made-up nonsense and regurgitated conservative talking points. This doesn’t even get into the pearl clutching over hooligans supposedly vandalizing beaches where they’re living. How on earth you can vandalize a beach that necessitates increased police funding is beyond me. I just walked away.
I saw a comment about how Asia is becoming the center of the world again as the West loses its grip in the Middle East and China is becoming the hegemon of East Asia. Meanwhile, Europe is returning to its Middle Aged roots with barbarism and the occasional breakthrough in the arts and sciences plodded at various points.
Unfortunately, Latin America looks like it won’t be enjoying the recent breakthroughs that Asia has as the US licks its wounds by tightening their grip on the entire region.
Have faith in Latin America. Its breakthroughs have often come despite the odds, not because the great powers allowed them to happen
I’m doing my best. It’s difficult when I’ve seen former revolutionary indigenous groups get brainwashed by Evangelism and raise Israeli flags. But I’ve been surprised by the region before. I hope it happens again.
I get where you’re coming from. I lost hope for Argentina a long time ago, both in interacting with its people and in reading online about its government, so I can relate to that disappointment
https://hexbear.net/comment/7451030
Im nosy, anyone know what this is about?
Im assuming the one is about naokchi being the banned admin with the zionist struggle session
I see there is no longer a warning in the .ain text but isnt bringing up struggle sessions in the mega forbidden?
I think if you reported it, it would get removed unless theyre friends with the mods but the comment itself wouldnt raise most peoples alarms. Especially since that specific part of the on going zionism struggle session is over
I reported one of the mods for just directly linking a post about some struggle session we had a long time ago (dont remember which one) in the mega and I do think it was removed so you can report if you want
Make a post and name names if you’re upset about something. Blah blah blah Mao and liberalism. I have no clue what you’re even talking about, I must have missed some zionism argument thing. It seems really tedious tho. I didn’t take the post you linked as about anything specific but just kinda joking about hexbear in general. There may be a loop im out of but thats how I took it.
For the record if you get your post removed, wasnt me. I dont know what the rule is and didnt look it up so I am in no position to snitch
Are you in the right mega? This is for ethnic minorities and people of color, we regularly talk about the white bullshit spilled in struggle sessions
There is no rule against talking about struggle session for this com or mega thread, check half the posts in this mega for confirmation
Edit: I also didnt say I was upset about something in my original post? I said I was nosy
Wrong mega! My mistake! Thanks for pointing it out. That makes all of this irrelevant. Sorry about that
I would delete your previous posts since youre not supposed to be here
Honestly terrified about the upcoming elections in Brazil and us intervention. If Lula wins (pls pls win istg) the US will surely retaliate and possibly even militarily, if bozonaro jr wins it’s already awful on its own but at least in portugal people will use it as an excuse to be even more racist towards Brazilians then they already are (which is immense) just like they already did to Colombians over the far-right win cause to them it’s not us intervention it’s latinos being inferior (nvm they keep electing fascists either, goes for all euros), even going as far to compare Brazilians and Colombians to USians and worse. I’m so fucking tired of europeans. I hope Lula wins and Brazil manages to not fall to us interventionism but I’m scared ngl, before, during and after elections.
Seems like hexbear and lemmygrad are both trying to cure my Internet addiction, I’m noticing we’ve currently got 3-4 parallel threads bouncing on hasan’s dick and the posters that usually complain about all the Hasan threads are very quiet. Odd how any criticism of this website’s favorite white millionaire born-rich liberal zionist streamer are met with “go touch grass” and “well WTF have you done for the revolution lately, my daddy puts you to shame” while multiple creepy thirst trap posts are just hanging out, like we need a new one every day now. Positive coverage only I guess.
So yeah I prefer to complain about it in this thread rather than start an annoying argument in those threads. You might ask, why stay on a website that just triggers you, and honestly HB/lemmygrad together are so close to what I’m looking for in an online left politics/news hangout website, they’re just so white and exhausting sometimes.
Anyway it’s all pretty low stakes, just wanted to throw that out there somewhere
I do think it’s really funny when an internet celebrity gets criticized and everyone with a parasocial relationship with them thinks theyre being subtle by deflecting and saying everyone needs to touch grass, this doesnt further the movement, we should focus on more important topics as if this isnt a shitposting website first
They really dont realize how obvious theyre being
Yeah and “touch grass” does double duty by marginalizing The Wrong Opinion AND differently-abled people, at the same time!
I mean I work full time and organize IRL with comrades, oh my bad I wasn’t born rich or as white as Hasan, sorry for criticizing, my bad I can’t be as “effective” as some rich kid with a global platform I’ll be quiet (fuck off). Also noticed how silent HB’s favorite professional streamer has been about PSL/Green candidates in the most recent California election, plus how silent he seems to be (I can’t stand that guy so I get all my clips secondhand) about unhoused people in LA despite living in a big mansion in LA. Still love the pipeline though!
what worries me about the western left is how low they’ll get for so little, AOC, Bernie, Mamdani, Abdul Seyed and the DSA gang haven’t pulled out the free healthcare card and they got them dancing and celebrating??? being a ride or die for a candidate who doesn’t even promise the minimum
For real, it’s pathetic.
In 2024 when liberals were falling over acting like they genuinely believed Kopmala “Holocauϟϟt Harriϟϟ” was a progressive darling who would definitely end the genocide in Palestine and finally bring stability and prosperity to all, and getting mad at me for not playing along, I realized that these people were just engaging in willfull self-delusion. They just wanted to cling to the comforting lie of hope that the DemoKKKratic Party is good and will protect them and will give them a better life if they just put their faith in it.
This is weirdly similar to the response a lot of people have for the fake socialists you list above, who will get upset when people criticize those politicians for their collaboration with zionist and capitalist powers.
In both cases it’s not about the candidates or what they promise, it’s about chasing that feeling of delusional hope, and they’ll get mad at us for interfering in their access to that fake hope because it is all that stands between them and despondency. But clinging to fake hope is counterrevolutionary and prevents people from seeking actual solutions.
Same people who were celebrating and cheering in the streets over Biden’s win and then ignored all the terrible stuff he did. It’s always about vibes for them.
Same people who always go “why isn’t [insert global south country] doing something about this” while doing jack shit to destroy the empire from the inside lmao they think posting on lib zionist hexbear is praxis
The bar is so low in America that people will celebrate any politician who promises some economic relief and isn’t blatantly hateful
No free healthcare, no defuned the police, no abolish ICE. The list goes on. But I guess epic clapbacks on social media or having a good personality is enough.
when the DSA electoralist liberal who promises healthcare, they’re going to excuse him dropping a nuke.
Happy “CONCGV?” Day!
I may have accidentally found the new Frieren. Do NOT suggest that Dungeon Crawler Carl may have some racist and misogynistic brainworms around fans, 2nd worst mistake I’ve ever made
(I’m exaggerating, most people have been fine about it, but the defenses remind me of the Frieren defenses which hinged upon “but the text says that the racism is fine so it doesn’t reflect upon the characters or the author” like none of us are adults who can read a treatlerite text critically and ask why the author made certain creative decisions or what the work of art’s success may reveal about its fans’ blind spots.)
Someone shared this a few weeks ago, explaining the phenomenon:
(CW: r*ddit)
The YouTube video inside was the most relevant bit, especially since it was published before Goblin Slayer was written. There’s a tl;dr at the bottom, so you can ignore the Warhammer stuff.
There is no canon. The lore is not real. It cannot mean or imply anything not expressed by the authors and artists, or so strongly evident in the assumptions of the story, that it’s an inescapable facet of it (e.g. Imperium and fascism).
If you don’t want to be a consumer brained moron, stop asking “”“''factual”“”“” questions about the lore, and ask instead, “what did the author mean?” “How was this work produced and for what reason?” “Who made it?” “How does it make me feel and what are its themes?” And, most importantly, “is this even good? Is it even worth my time or analysis?”
Otherwise, you’re just trapping yourself into a series of pointless arguments to justify your consumption
Good ideas in there, thanks.
I think it’s interesting then that some fans want DCC both ways: it’s an incisive revolutionary leftist critique of real-world problems but it’s not fair to bring real-world analysis into their fun unserious lighthearted comedy
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CW: alludes to SA
I’ve been reading a bit on the new PSL allegations and it’s got my mind spinning (mostly cause I only heard rumors and never saw anything explicitly written out).
Socialist orgs in the US are treated as social clubs formed by people who know of theory. It’s unserious organizing. There’s no reason for members to have relationships amongst each other and if some naturally develop there is no way it should mix with organizing. The org should only be discussing and planning actions, mutual aid, agitation. And the org needs to clearly have that laid out and enforced to prevent social abuse. Orgs need strong discipline or else people will just play around all day, abuse people, be infiltrated, etc. There should be a zero tolerance policy for “developing relationships” (getting friendly with intent to pursue, not so much making friends) and everyone across the org levels should understand that clearly and understand it will be enforced. There’s should be no reason abuse keeps happening and then gets brushed aside besides unserious neglect.
The left is nowhere near power so I think publicly airing out grievances is useless. Mostly because what is expected of the public to help in situations like this when the public doesn’t know what PSL is, nevertheless socialism? But I don’t think that means never air out grievances, I think it means being more serious as an org and enforced strict policy against abuse/unnecessary relationships. Strict accountability.
The note on relationships is about another substack I read of someone saying they joined PSL then started dating someone 12 years their senior and didn’t get protection from the org. I’m not saying the org should have broke them up but should have heavily discouraged any romantic relationships at all.
Bit incoherent but my point is, socialist organizing shouldn’t be a social club and the way to make that happen is having clear strict and enforced discipline by the org that reinforces the reason we organize is to fight for a future, not make friends.
I agree that an organization in and of itself shouldnt be a social club, I also think they should try to have leftist forms of social clubs for agitation and recruitment
There should be a zero tolerance policy for “developing relationships” (getting friendly with intent to pursue, not so much making friends)
I dont think this could meaningfully be enforced and id worry about it being weaponized against more marginalized comrades like trans femmes. But I do think serial dating in orgs should be at least looked at if it’s between two people with an imbalance of power, whether that is age, or social capital, or actual leadership position
We’re in hell since it needs to be said but any org should have a zero tolerance policy against sexual violence. Unfortunately, due to living inremoved culture there’s always a chance it will happen but as seen in this case, how people respond to it can be more traumatic than the actual act of violence
Reading this thread, I’m starting to wonder if making a Hexbear account was a mistake. Maybe I should consider Lemmygrad instead
same, kinda wondering if there’s a place that is like…just this thread 😅
having alts in other instances is never a bad idea
It sucks but I get it, you gotta do what’s best for you, you can still post in this thread if you make another account, god knows we need more POCs around here
They’re even worse. Even used to let israeli settlers post on there in the very beggining according to a comrade who’s now left.
