my boss said he doesn’t personally post here but some others might. and my boss thinks it’s cool that I’m a leftist, he’s one too, apparently, and that a bunch of our coworkers are leftists. some of them might post here?? it’s a finance firm – the last place I’d expect this. how the fuck do they have a positive opinion of this place??
YOU HAVE TO TELL ME IF YOU POST HERE AND WHAT YOUR @ IS. THIS IS SO UNFAIR LEAVING ME ON THE HOOK LIKE THIS. DON’T MAKE ME POST PPB TO THE WORK SLACK AND SEE WHO LAUGHS.
(I use tree style tabs so they can read my tabs when I share my screen – I didn’t hide this place because who the fuck has heard of hexbear)
Damn, that’s really cool, I’m actually in a similar situation. Found out some months back that my landlord uses Hexbear when I saw him pull up the site on his phone while I was requesting that he fix the broken heater and leaky roof in my apartment. I brought it up and instantly he seemed just as happy as I was to have randomly come across a Hexbear comrade in the wild. What are the odds, right? Anyway, turns out he’s an ML! Now we hang out, watch Star Trek, and shoot the shit about theory over weed and beer on the weekends.
A couple weeks ago I was talking to my landlord about how hard it is to find leftist friends, and he got the idea to introduce me to a buddy of his, the one who actually introduced him to Hexbear in the first place. Turns out he’s the police officer who usually handles the evictions here. I’d seen him around, but I had no idea he was actually cool. Dude’s an anarchist and heavily involved with his union, really based. We invited him to get baked and hang out with us and we really hit it off. It’s nice having an anarchist perspective for our theory talk, really fitting given we all use the same left unity website. Not gonna lie, it does get heated at times, and I’m still a bit apprehensive about him showing up to these hangouts in uniform with his service weapon, but I think that’s just me being antsy.
Hope you can get something similar going with your boss. Hexbear is great and all, but there’s no substitute to having good comrades to hang out with offline.
A couple weeks ago I was talking to my landlord about how hard it is to find leftist friends, and he got the idea to introduce me to a buddy of his, the one who actually introduced him to Hexbear in the first place. Turns out he’s the police officer who usually handles the evictions here. I’d seen him around, but I had no idea he was actually cool. Dude’s an anarchist and heavily involved with his union, really based. We invited him to get baked and hang out with us and we really hit it off. It’s nice having an anarchist perspective for our theory talk, really fitting given we all use the same left unity website. Not gonna lie, it does get heated at times, and I’m still a bit apprehensive about him showing up to these hangouts in uniform with his service weapon, but I think that’s just me being antsy.
You’ve been hanging out with your Marxist landlord and their anarchist cop friend? Where am I? What timeline is this?
finance
boss
leftist
ok maybe i’m a pessimist but this sounds like a warren voter to me
Warren hexbear poster? That seems less likely than a finance firm socialist somehow lol
I went to a Chapo live show once and saw a whole bunch of Beto bumper stickers that I don’t think were ironic
Eh, you’d be surprised. I know a few leftists working in fintech, it pays damn good and the marginal evil-utility of arbitrage or something is pretty low compared to the kind of shit they’d be enabling at FAANG.
It doesn’t surprise me, actually. I think people working in finance would know better than anyone else just how bullshit the whole system is.
I can’t remember where it was, but I was listening to an interview with a left-wing guy who worked for some sort of stock buying/trading company. He said his strategy was to just assume all the hype was bullshit and things were only going to get worse. Apparently he performed so much better than everyone else that his boss just assumed he was doing illegal insider-trading stuff.
Never trust anything a stock guy says to the public. Have you seen the stock market since post-2020 crash? Absurd gains
Many/most reputable places that do this kind of trading have fixed whole market exposure, either long only or long/short (and a lot are long/short). The idea being that since it’s mathematically impossible for the average hedge fund to beat the market in the long term by much (tbf, less so since the rise of index funds), they should at least be able to provide returns that aren’t correlated to the stock market, as any idiot can get correlated returns.
Besides, everyone knows that just because things are getting worse doesn’t mean number won’t go up - you’d typically trade on the belief that number go up in some more sophisticated way, perhaps by predicting what the fed will do to make sure number go up, or how the books will be cooked to make sure number go up.
This video?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ViY-zI3b5JQ
I think that’s the guy, though I heard of him via interview in someone else’s show. Can’t remember which podcast it was.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I know a friend who is a communist and organizes and they with no restraint worked on a project at a FAANG to allow the intelligence agency of another imperial core country to spy on their citizens
Also know an organizer who leads an org of ~70 people at a $XX billion dollar company making >1 mill per year lmao
When something pops off in a city like NYC though there are enough people active that aren’t even in orgs that they can make the police retreat, I have some hope for the future, a lot of young people got their first taste of a sort of action in 2020 and many are still down for the cause. The most serious revolutionaries aren’t going to talk about it much.
god damn maybe I should have just taken that fukken military contractor job I was offered if that’s where the bar is
Please don’t, Silicon Valley is just the biggest fucking meme in this world
I gave hexbear to a kind of whacky old lady from the allotment who is extremely online due to being unemployed, she got caught up in all that qanon shit a while back you know the type, lurking hexbear has clearly been slowly turning her into a communist because her takes are getting better and better.
Bruh I’m posting with finance bros wtf?
Indubitably. I’m certain there’s at least one six (maybe even seven??) figure earning hexbear poster out there somewhere and yet, as of writing this, they still haven’t sent me ANY money…??
If anyone wants to Venmo me like 3k I wouldn’t mind. I’ll even send you a nice post card.
look man, I’ll take their money. I’m using it to provide free housing to as many comrades as I can.
Accountants will be useful in the socialist future. Have you read any of Rob Bryers books?
