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We've come a long way | Some old-ass struggle sessions I found while on a long trainride on the mainline (hexbear.net)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by REgon@hexbear.net to c/main@hexbear.net

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This is supposed to be a sort of museumpost, like it can be nice to look back.

China used to be a controversial topic. There were always people who held the Correct Opinion, but it wasn't something that had a general consensus on the site.
Jack's thread
Hexbears malding over pronouns? More likely than you think!
Quillquote, my beloved, making an effortpost about intelligence based insults
Not wanting to date trans women is transphobic
Somebody complaining about tankes getting 90 upbears? Sure!
Hexbears talking bout Uyghurs and trusting the CIA
The vet sesh
Vaushposting
TC69 asks you to read a book
Contraposting
Main rage

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

In half of these I'm making silly jokes bridget-pride-stay-mad

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

lol i remember those

[-] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

I'm pretty sure i'm in that thread.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago

xi-gun

[-] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago

Fear not for i have been reeducated

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago

xi-lib-tears

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 30 points 9 hours ago

Please note that I am in many of these threads and my take is always flawless

[-] jack@hexbear.net 13 points 8 hours ago

The power of dialectical materialism

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

swole-doge

[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 12 points 8 hours ago

This is Romanov Erasure

[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 11 points 8 hours ago

owned : also Romanov erasure.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago

As they should be owned

[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago

It's rife

[-] jack@hexbear.net 30 points 10 hours ago

Hell yeah, that thread was great. Early chacha was much more like r/cth politically, meaning it was more demsoc and anarchist than the 90% ML space it is today. So I'd say that was an extremely productive struggle session.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah it was fun looking thru those old threads too. Fun to see how the vibe has changed. It must be nice to always have been correct

edit: some things never change though

[-] jack@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago

it-is-known

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

"So you're saying you don't think the cultural revolution happened?"
limmy-awake "What??"
:smuglord: "wikipedia.com checkmate tankie"

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 9 hours ago

Not wanting to date trans women is transphobic

I clicked that and had to scroll down to see a comment not deleted by mod or person commenting. Must have been intense session.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, I don't remember a lot of it, but I remember some people being big mad

[-] Luna@hexbear.net 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Wow these are like deep-nesting + at times

Wasn't around for any of it, but I'm glad that it happened, it looks like it made the site a better place.

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[-] REgon@hexbear.net 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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[-] D61@hexbear.net 35 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

moichendaising cool-zone

Also... fuck, has it been 4+ years this place has been around? My sense of time is turbo fucked...

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

Russia-Ukraine war is almost 3 years old now

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 22 points 10 hours ago

Soleimani was the keeper of the time crystal

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 9 hours ago

Self crit? On my internet?

[-] SSJ3Marx@hexbear.net 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Not wanting to date trans women is transphobic

Damn Destiny said that? Things sure change huh.

Contraposting

Lmao I read halfway through that thread before realizing it was about 2020. Some things never change.

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Apparently it was a different destiny.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 28 points 11 hours ago

I miss quillquote. And lots of others. Come back comrades kitty-cri

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 28 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I got a DM from quillquote some time after he stopped posting, so I think he might be lurking from time to time.
When I stop posting just know I will still be lurking

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 12 hours ago

Most of these are graveyards of deleted comments :(

Would really, really love to read this stuff in it's full proper form...

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 44 points 12 hours ago

As someone that was around back then: you really don't want to

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 21 points 12 hours ago

Some of it has been archived on the waybackmachine. Don't know why, but sometimes you can find the threads there

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 34 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Back in my days we used to post ppb links and emojis to wreckers and the Silver Legion because we didn't have this new fangled images in comments tech. (we did but for only like the first week or so)

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[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

I got here about a year after the site was created and as a result I missed all the silver legion stuff and for the longest time I thought the silver legion stuff was a reference to the Silver Legion of America, aka the Silver Shirts, an American esoteric fascist organization that was active in the lead up to ww2.

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

I think that was the intent, but silver-legion is way funnier.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago

Oh, yeah I could see the original troll self-aggrandizing in that way (although the original silver shirts are in fact, extremely embarrassing) and then getting turned into a Nate Silver joke.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 26 points 12 hours ago

We'd hide a picture of John Kerry in the pigs ass crack, as was the fashion at the time

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 12 points 10 hours ago

Man, this unlocked a Proustian memory of Kerryposting

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 24 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I expanded the image, tried to click the upbear button image which collapsed it. Then did that again twice before realising what I was doing. Thanks for resharing these, look forward to reading through cos they mainly were from before I joined

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 20 points 11 hours ago

Where are the rocks pillars and the door cats?

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 11 points 8 hours ago

In retrospect I can't believe people were willing to argue about rock pillars

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago

They really wanted to stack rocks. And also argue against the general "take nothing but pictures, leave no traces" approach you're told to have for nature.
Lots of contrarians

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 15 points 11 hours ago

Much later. Tried to find some of the lesser known and earlier sessions.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 13 points 11 hours ago

Speaking of which, is the downvote wars and the cha-cha renaming spat would be two fun ones to rediscover

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 12 points 11 hours ago

I considered including them, but there wasn't one single large thread I could post.
If you sort by controversial then they show up very quickly

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