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Pretty sure at least one person in my local org is on here, but we don't acknowledge it, like Baptists who see each other in the liquor store
I get a bit paranoid that coworkers will find my comments somewhere and realize I'm actually a straight-up dirty commie and not just a vaguely progressive liberal... my workplace has no real labor protections that would help me and I need to stay employed.
I told my boss I was a Marxist once I figured out he was level headed. We talk about surface level politics and while we disagree on a lot, we agree what Luigi did is cool 
Letting people see my Hexbear posts though? Oh hell no.
Yea no shot, lol. I'd rather they see my Lemmy.ml comments and posts, which are generally much higher quality and more thought-out, than my Hexbear posting, lol
Same. I feel like I need to start masking as a lib because the fascist rhetoric from co-workers is gonna get me fired. I try not to talk too politically but I have this one co-worker that is a straight up fash, and I'm gonna end up saying something. I just hope it's liberal-coded enough.
I try to frame it as coming from an apolitical History Guy angle: "Damn that's crazy man, well good luck with that but you're probably gonna get owned, I'll be here chillin."
Yep, always gotta keep plausible deniability. I try to gently provide based takes in a way that is easily acceptable when I can, though.
I got drunk at the work Xmas party and told a Trump guy that I was a communist (and that I wanted to fuck the HR lady). He was actually kind of cool about it later.
Did you end up hooking up with the HR person?
No I was talking shit. I'm married and it would have ruined my life lol.
That's for the best then. Haha
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Meeting another user IRL would be so cool but also REALLY fucking awkward, if your account contains a lot of intimate details about yourself. 
I stick things up my butt
If you are on this website, that is a very safe assumption.
The post-revolution^ biographies would be incredible.
^ 
We met at the agency retreat at Martha's Vineyard last summer, remember?
You'd know if it was me from all the owl dander and mouse skeletons
legit found a dead mouse in my backyard yesterday 
wazzunt meh
Did you know owl pellets are used as edutainment activity at bird watching events? Humans actually are entertained by picking thru owl scat and looking at bones.
Those don't belong to you! 
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I know most of you guys, i get dossiers every so often and sometimes they even let me connect to y'alls webcams
let me know if my sticky tape is getting loose
I've done a litmus test a few times with my offline commie/anarchist friends and only ran across one person that knew of hexbear. His response was "that's still a thing?" lol.
Actually I guess he's still an online friend but he's a founding member of a neighboring chapter of the org I'm in. So not fully online friend?
I know one poster because his opsec was really bad, but he's moved too far away from where we met for me to just tell him in person and I don't have a secure way to message him to let him know :( , plus I did not want to then leak my identity to him.
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I once saw someone IRL on hexbear at a lefty meetup that I'm not going to dox myself over. I was wondering if I should have said anything but didn't
in retrospect it would have been a bit weird because i was still an egg back then. also it would have been weird to say hi to another hexbear user IRL like that
how'd you know they were a poster?
they were repping the pigpoopballs merch
I could see their screen from two seats over and knew what hexbear.net looked like
understandable, I was more feeling the mystery of it
nobody break opsec plz!
I'm willing to meet up with any DC-area comrades
Northern Virginia folx, let's meet up!
I saw a guy that looked like David Cross and was wearing this shirt who I felt had a very high chance of being a power poster.
that's a great bit of comradely festiveness
I just assume that some of my irl friends lurk here and that we'll never discuss it
ya, that's a nice vibe
or
but mostly 
If I meet any of you irl, it's Highlander rules straight up 
We will meet August 17th 2027 15:20. Bring an umbrella.
I have a group that meets at midnight on Fridays under the Brooklyn bridge. The password is Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Ive met plenty of people from here over the years and it's always been nice! Can be awkward, sure, but that just comes with meeting new people i think. I'm not super great at socializing anyways
if any of you see me irl then either i have moved or something has gone terribly wrong.
i am in your walls
does that count the watercooler at quantico?
Egh, I wouldn't know.
Barely know any people now IRL, let alone on this site.
This was inspired by thinking of a friend I knew in high school that I haven't spoken to in more than a decade and have no idea how to find at this point. We were not really that politically conscious or anything at the time besides some vague anarchist vibes, but just kinda weird nerds. I wonder if by chance they might be on this site. Not that I think any specific user is identifiable IRL for me.
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