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  • @khizuo@hexbear.net thank you for the em poc mega, I know you also do the disability mega so it appreciated

    As for resolutions I got one in eating more whole foods and greens this year and since I do the cooking at home dragging my family with me in eating together better

  • There go crackers whining about looting eventhough 1) there's been no reports of looting 2) people homes and belongings are on fire and 3) if the people belongings are on fire, store will be on fire and any product will burn anyway. Crackers gonna cracker.

    • Seriously if the store is on fire and no one is going to put it out, looting should be encouraged so things aren't wasted. Especially food and medicine because people will be injured any time there's a large disaster like this.

      They care more about property than people. The entire situation is like this. They aren't upset at the death and destruction caused by the fires. They're upset it's going to affect their property values.

      • Exactly. This is a good time for looting EVERYTHING. Even non essentials because it'll burn anyway and people will have literally nothing afterwards.

        I don't get why they always get uppity about property that is both not theirs and not near them.

  • My ny's resolution is to be more mindful of how I embody (or don't) revolutionary optimism in my everyday life

  • I was thinking 2025 was settling down a bit finally, but nope... I already hate this year.

    • There are decades where nothing happens

      And weeks where decades happen

      • Yeah

        My dad had a medical emergency to end 2024. Thankfully he got released pretty fast, but he was weak for a few days and still hasn't really fully recovered. Not sure that he will. Every time he goes to the hospital he comes back weaker. And the Parkinson's he has certainly doesn't help. And then work has been an absolute shitshow. Had an incident on New Year's Day, but thankfully no one was hurt. But all the paperwork and discussion has worn me out. Not that it has been too bad, but still. And today everyone is running around with their heads on fire because of some issue with some inventory we have. Feel so tired.

  • Lying in bed and can't get back to sleep

    I've never really articulated this thought out loud so here's to trying

    As a mixed-race person I've always felt a bit more isolated than my other POC friends who identify as one ethnicity and obviously belong to that ethnic group. I present as maybe white-passing with an Asian tint [ethnically ambiguous].

    Just kind of envious of most people, white, POC or otherwise who have a shared cultural background to fall back on, while I just have my general interests, leftyness, and dirt-poor upbringing as points of conversation.

    Any other Hexbears in this boat?

    • Half white, half Filipino here. I've found more acceptance among non-whites than whites throughout my lifetime. Especially for family. Whites will never accept you as one of them because they believe in bullshit one-drop rules. It's caused a lot of stress for me because I get this weird imposter syndrome where I can't tell if I did something wrong or if whitey is just being racist.

      I mostly regret not speaking any of the Filipino languages and the disconnect it's caused, separating me from that part of myself. My Spanish is shit, but I can understand certain things more than Tagalog (where I understand nothing at all). But in the Philippines, Spanish is the language of former oppressors, so AFAIK it's fallen out of use. There's so much I don't know about the homeland because I was raised outside of it among white devils.

      Another struggle is identifying with other minorities in the US. There's generational trauma in my family due to colonialism, but it's nothing like the slavery experienced by black Americans. It does have some overlap with what Native Americans went through, but then their genocide was so thorough and all-encompassing it's not comparable. We have more in common with Latin America than we do with China and Vietnam, while also not being part of Latin America. So there's all these groups where our problems intersect, yet those problems are different enough you can't find the support needed (maybe I'm not phrasing this right).

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