The thing about U.S. media dominance is that you can't escape its ideas even in places you consider to be apolitical or safe, I just saw a kitty page that I follow make a joke about the U.S. bombing Iran.

An insta post from Bobby Vylan of "Death to the IDF" fame

A friend of a friend who is a "pillar of the local queer community" calling me a dangerous Tankie that people shouldn't associate with. lol 😂

"DUDE ARE YOU SERIOUSLY DEFENDING THE BARBARIAN SAVAGES OF AFRICA? THEY EAT HUMANS DUDE, I HAVE A COUSIN THERE AND THEY PUT HIM IN A BIG POT AND ATE HIM, CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LEFTISTS WILL SUPPORT EVEN BARBARIC CANNIBAL REGIMES IF IT MEANT IT'S AGAINST THE EMPIRE" - British man in the 1800s who I depict as the wojak.

I'm at a point where I don't bother with internet arguments especially over one's basic humanity. I just want to beat mfs to an within an inch of their life. You don't see lions argue with their prey so why bother? I'm wasting my time. Dudes arguing points that lead to ethnic cleansing and I'm no gonna be thinking about a witty reddit retort because if this were face to face most people avert their eyes to people like me for a good reason.

Absurd question but I just realized I have no idea how do I make other bipoc friends? Because almost all my friends are white and there's things they don't get. I live in a very white place but it's a city and there's tons of normal (non-cracker) people around, but a lot of them seem siloed in their own communities. I've never felt like I could go to cultural events for my ethnic group and don't even know if there are any here because my parents are pretty assimilationist, I don't speak the language, I don't have a shared cultural background because I was raised very American.

The current struggle sess on twitter about wages in the imperial core showed the chauvinism of quite a few "leftists", god forbid someone mentions that there is other ways to empowers the workers in the imperial core than just rising the minimun wage

I really don’t care what is happening in New York. And i especially don’t care if this person is “Muslim” who will work under the chains of the liberal bourgeois state. If all you need is some left-facing slogans to vote than I don’t know what to say.

Can’t wait for my country to get indebted to Wall Street banks and get “structurally adjusted” - but atleast the banks are under a city with a “Muslim” governor! All is well. - Felt the same when Sadiq Khan become London’s mayor.

and before anyone says why I have “Muslim” in quotes, I take the opinion of Houria Bouteldja of what it means to be a Muslim in the West:

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One of God’s names is “a l-‘Adl,” which means “The Just.” The idea that my father, Allah yrahmou, transmitted to me is that Islam is fundamentally an ideal of justice. So, to the question “Can one be Muslim in the West?” his answer (as well as mine) would have been a provocative “No.” The presentation I will make here is not that of an Islamic scholar, as I have neither the qualification for it nor the pretension to it. Instead, I would like to offer an analytical framework for understanding the interactions between the fact of being and calling oneself Muslim and the fact of being involved in politics. Wal-‘Ilmou lillâh.

If Islam is really this ideal of radical justice, then our presence as Muslims in the heart of the imperial city, in the heart of injustice, is problematic. In this context, perhaps we would have more humility if we saw ourselves as becoming Muslims.

Some of you may dismiss that statement since, at the individual level, you respect the teachings of the sacred book, the five pillars of Islam, the Sunnah and the great principles. These are indeed the bases of Islamic practice and they are fundamental to whomever aspires to belong to the Ummah el Islamiya. But I contend that there is a profound contradiction between the ideal of justice advocated by Islam and the material gains that we have achieved by living, to a great extent, off of spoliation of the South (in the form of wages, social redistribution or political rights). We are certainly not the main beneficiaries of North/South domination (the bourgeoisie is), and we are not even secondary beneficiaries (the white working classes are). We are the unwanted and collateral beneficiaries of this system but we still benefit, even while remaining in the margins.

When I say “we,” I mean this intermediate category between Whites and people of the Third World, that is, postcolonial subjects living in the West. Ancestors of colonized people and victims of structural racism in the North, they are despised, relegated, discriminated against but their burden is lessened, relatively speaking, because they enjoy the social, economic and political rights of liberal democracies. So I speak of “aristocratic indigenous people” not unlike those in white left movements who speak of “aristocratic laborers.” The first thing to do in order not to escape one’s conscience is to face reality in all its ugliness. And the first ugliness of this system is that none of us is innocent. But we are not guilty either because the world in which we live is a system that precedes us and will probably survive after us. We are not guilty, but we are responsible. We are responsible as human beings, we are responsible as third-people living in the North, and we are responsible as “potential” Muslims. In my view, it is based on this awareness and this objective situation in conflict with the Islamic principle of justice that we must forge politics. Here, I would like to introduce a distinction between social and political Muslims. The first are, in a large sense, cultural Muslims (they inherited Islamic culture because they were born in an Islamic environment—they practice or not or are converts) while the second are those who, in addition to having faith, are aware of their responsibility in a structurally unjust world. It is this second category that is the focus of my interest in this paper.

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I’m not here to have a debate (because my mind is already made up), but i am just airing it out at the void really.

A crime by colonizers, next to taking natural resources and the massacres they've done, is fighting intellectualism in its subjects... This is me ranting about my people not reading an article past a headline.

there are members of a DSA caucus that are legitimately mad at and talking about filing a grievance against another DSA member for calling them crackers on twitter. there's no joke I could make that's funnier then the situation itself

Nerds we are gonna get cancelled for saying the c-word

@vegeta1@hexbear.net I remember one time as a small kid that I had a tantrum in a souk because my parents didn't want me to get a blanket of Vegeta screaming and instead bought me a blanket with rabbits on it.

I don't care how good once upon a time in Hollywood may be.... That disrespect to bruce lee made me throw it in the bin. You know how many of us in Africa got inspired to do martial arts because of that man and how he resonated with a lot of us? Yeah tarantino was a fool for that one.

"Peace in the middle east" you say before I grab your ankle and twist behind your shoulder

Radio DJ on a latino station straight up spreading anti-immigrant propaganda and then supposedly he opens up the phone line and he says "oh this isn't a debate, I just want to hear opinions" and then all the callers are just agreeing with him anyway. Fucking hate gusanos.

"Hey this term has racist origins, despite it being an acceptable term within the white power structure. Maybe as leftists, we shouldn't use it and instead take the time to write out or say the definition without using the term itself?"

"Yeah but it's the accepted term and it means the same as the definition."

"But the term itself is harmful and othering. Here's a list of reasons why, along with examples of similar terms that used to be acceptable: "

"I don't see the point."

What the fuck is it with white 'leftists' not wanting to learn things or change their views based on material consequences?

This was asked before and I saved the link somewhere, but where can the Hexbear emoji database be downloaded for personal use on things like Signal?

I'm so Hexbear-poisoned I don't even think in normal emojis anymore, just want to spam :Mao-Shining: with my friends.

education is a frustrating matter, I want to shove book into people's faces until they read, like damn you read about how your people got colonized ffs

Us Black people rock

I can't get over that someone joked that I'm "Angel" when I sing my clean vocals but an alter-ego of mine named "Demon" comes out when I sing my unclean vocals.

Goofy!

Anyone ever have white women saying that they struggle more than male poc’s? I’ve been hearing this more from white Guatemalans. They claim that they face more racism for having blonde hair and blue eyes. That nonwhite men have an advantage over them because we don’t face sexism like they do.

Guatemala does have a pretty bad sexism issue but white Guatemalans pretty much own the finance industry in Guatemala and you’ll find the whitest men and women at the executive levels while brown people are hired cleaners.

It feels really concerning that there are cases where I'd feel infinitely more respected by a Black conservative than I would a white leftist (even though, obviously, neither of them would be truly respectful).

I was already fucking done with westerners, but the genocide and the bombing of Iran sealed it, there's nothing to expect from them or any hope from them, lost cause not different than Germans in the 40s, there's multiple concentration camps massacres happen every day, then your country bombs a random country's NUCLEAR FACILITY FOR THE GOAL OF MAKING IT LEAK and they still act like it's normal even better, they criticize us in our countries for being authoritarians or aggressors or whatever the fuck george orwell words they learned in 7th grade reading.

Westerners finding every excuse to explain why they think Ethiopia wasn’t considered one of the three great powers alongside the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty China.

"there is no hope in the world, face it, thats reality. we're all doomed" - white person living in the united states of america with a middle class income

Chavez jr fought jake paul last week now ICE deporting him? Everyone is a legit target. This world cup next year will be a shitshow https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fU48eUJg4iU&pp=ygUJQ2hhdmV6IGpy0gcJCcEJAYcqIYzv These mfs tying him with organized crime and cartels gtfo. They're just incriminating people with bullshit now. Wtf

This site is still incredibly white and racist.

Can't forget that time I was getting along really well with this Black queer vegan leftist until they found out I'm an ML and said "Sorry, I hate tankies and campists."

Wew... this person was certainly interesting. They told me they don't care about content for Palestine because it seems "trendy." (WTF)

So many vibes, and none of them feel right.

First.

Stupid mfs cosplaying agents and going to sanctuary cities

Yesterday, I said to myself in the morning, "I haven't had doubles in a long time. Maybe I should go to the Caribbean shop sometime soon."

Then shortly after I go on Instagram, I see a post from this vegan recipe account by this Black British man I follow. He primarily shares African, Latin American, and Caribbean dishes, and this time, he shared a recipe for doubles.

I find it a fascinating coincidence!

Today is the independence day of Vunzuela and Algeria

I feel bad that I suddenly got a very strong craving for hot dogs on CracKKKer Independence Day because it kinda felt like I was "celebrating," but I said "Fuck it!"

I made these out of tofu

already got this much done

I'm thinking to write a bridge that leads into a guitar solo and then go from there with one more verse/pre-chorus/chorus section. After that, some sort of outro will close out the song, and that will conclude track 8 out of 9!

She got back to me and sent me 5 more positions to apply for. She also talked to her manager about me.

It seems like some form of networking might be my path out of this unemployment hole, then... but it's upsetting that I still wouldn't be terribly shocked if nothing comes from this. It's baffling how finding something as necessary for literal fucking survival as a job feels like hunting for a hidden treasure.

I once had a dream that the Aztecs had fighter jets and used them to sink the Spanish ships and destroy their forts lol

Finally got to a point where I was able to sing through a whole song using unclean vocals and didn't need to take a break.

Unfortunately, I didn't record it yet, but this is a huge accomplishment because I used to feel weak as shit doing this even after just a single verse. This time, it felt incredibly easy, relaxed, and natural yet the growls still sounded fierce as fuck.

I did this so casually. I was just doing some dishes, and then I just randomly started singing the lyrics to "Pull the Plug" by Death. I sang the whole way through with my unclean technique.

I've been trying to practice my uncleans a lot more often because I felt like I was giving the cleans more love as of late, but I'm gonna practice both whenever I can!

I find it funny that the people cheering on CECOT were absolutely terrified at the idea of us hosting migrants in our prisons. They hate the migrants but fear taking on the US’s unwanted will lead to backlash if a Dem gets into power.

My team is down 3: 1 permanent. I keep breaking my back to get things done, but my friend said let it all fail so they know it's unreasonable to have 3 less people and keep up same amount of output. Since I'm in charge I worry it'll backfire; I also worry that they know I'm not the type to let things fail which is why they overloaded me.

Finished writing the song... gonna mix it and share it later today. It only took me about 6 days to finish this shit—for real!

Full Solo!

Quite proud of it

She won't leave my mind for some reason.

Star witness against Kilmar Garcia has legit a long rapsheet and will not be deported or serve his federal prison sentence. So he has a rapsheet longer than the one love remix and hes gonna go free to get a man who has no criminal record of any kind. his credibility as a witness shattered due to an obvious deal he got. Absolute clown show that this case isn't thrown out of court

I started the guitar solo. The breakdown I worked on last starts around 3:10, and the guitar solo starts around 3:30. This is just half of it. It'll be a fairly long one.

I'll do a brief drum solo after that (to revisit the theme of the intro), and then one more verse, pre-chorus, and chorus sequence, and then some outro of some sort.

I've been counting, and this has been this case for at least 60 days now.

I think it's safe to say that he's not here anymore, but the only things that still leave me skeptical is:

1. His number is still in the landlord's group chat for some reason.
2. His room hasn't gone back up for rent it seems.
3. I get this "it's too good to be true" vibe way deep in the back of my head because the first time I assumed that he was possibly gone for good, he showed back up. However, he did that within about 2 weeks that time. We're now in around 2 months, and he ain't anywhere to be found.

Basically, my skepticism comes from the lack of any noticeable "official" confirmation, but I guess this could just be due to a delay in handling formalities. Like, for example, if he died (), the landlord still might have to wait for some legal stuff to be sorted out, such as where his belongings go and lease concerns.

Social media can be so cringe. I had been following an indigenous rights group and over time I've come to realize its kind of a lib page even though they do some radical positions like land back. And I didn't mind the fact that it is a lib page, but they posted some cringe shit about black people being colonizers and it like... ehhhh. If we're going to label black people like that because there are those who enthusiastically support the US and white supremacy then you're going down a slippery slope by labeling the entire group that way. Especially because there are groups of indigenous people who believe in assimilating with, or at least are ok with, colonizer culture. IDK, maybe I'm thinking about it too much, but I unfollowed the page. I have other indigenous rights pages that are much more intersectional.

happy juneteenth

Started the final track for the debut!

Sound different? Yeah, it's jazz!

This track is gonna be an outlier track that I'm titling "Role Reversal."

The premise of it is that the lead instrument, the solo you hear, is the 7-string bass, and that little walking "bassline" you hear underneath it? It's actually a clean 8-string guitar tone, so the extended-range bass and the extended-range guitar swapped roles.

It'll be a shorter track and totally instrumental. I don't intend to make this any longer than 3 minutes.

I decided to make the bridge a polyrhythmic breakdown kind of section.

The ambient guitar track in the background has a far more coherent rhythm, but the chugs on top are just... a bit all over the place, but it's in a way that works.

I'm in love with this. I think I did a good job. I could imagine it going well with some melodic, non-word vocals that harmonize well with the ambience (things like humming and whatnot).

Guitar solo is next!

Crockett may be a dem but this was a great way on pressing these racist Karens on what they really mean. They always try to hide their hands https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wFJqnVZfIYA

Has to be my favorite harmony I wrote for the album