I don’t know what to say, so I will simply unload some of my heart and just be honest. This is an attempted GoFundMe for a long time pen pal friend I have in Gaza. She is a very beautiful person that I have corresponded with for years. I have been the only one whose donated despite sharing with the few friends I have and some family , a cousin of mine will donate soon. It has been up for a month with no donations in part because GoFundMe kept shafting it but I have now fixed it. I could barely muster the will to write about something so unbearable in such a dry and clinical way. I have no illusions that this will achieve the 10,000 goal but one must look towards the sun. I will be messaging popular Twitter users to try and share this later.

Sorry if this isn’t the most moving post for something so important . I did landscaping work today an had a couple of beers after just to gain the courage to post this despite mostly being sober lately so I can read books more.

Please watch Balaha’s two beautiful short films linked in the GoFundMe that I uploaded to YouTube, they were shot with an old iPhone. And also please let me know if my GoFundMe description is too personal and off putting. https://gofund.me/7365562f

    • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      Okay I will change it to that. Thanks for the engagement truly! If I I/we/the world can even do a tiny bit for this person an her family it would mean so much. But I know we are all funding strapped an there is much pain to go around.

      Edit: Unless my brain no worky (which it doesn’t) I guess you can’t change the post /c/ so I will let it cook so to speak, then repost tomorrow in mutual_aid

    • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      14·
      7 months ago

      Oh my God lol . Okay updated now gofundme linked to bottom of post. I haven’t posted in a while so I thought i did but it’s in the main post now at the bottom. Thank you

            • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
              7·
              7 months ago

              I will thank you my friend <3. An I hope it isn’t inappropriate to say as it is self involved but I will be posting here more again in the future.

              As far as the satanic ARPA/DARPA internet goes this place has always been a relatively warm light. Thanks peoples.

              • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
                12·
                7 months ago

                you’re welcome bro, and i get exactly what you mean about this site.

                @Hexagons@hexbear.net said some shit recently that really resonated with me, in a thread where people were arguing with a lib lmao.

                I get my dissenting opinions simply by existing in the society in which I exist. The hexbear “echo chamber” as you put it is small and powerless. This place is a tiny refuge, a brief respite from all the shitiness I see in my day to day life.

                Hexbear isn’t an “echo chamber” in the same way the republican media circuit is, because we have to leave it. Republicans never do. They can read articles and watch talking heads and never once be challenged on their beliefs. As a communist, I’m challenged on my beliefs every single day. Most articles I read and most talking heads I watch disagree with me.

                We respond to lost libs like you for a few reasons. One is maybe we’ll change a mind, not necessarily yours but perhaps a lurker reading the conversation. Another is entertainment. It’s really funny when someone wanders in here and is the living embodiment of the memeing we do. Sometimes we want an argument, usually because we’re having a shitty day and just want to be an asshole on the Internet. This isn’t a good motivation and I wish it didn’t happen, but it does. None of us is immune.

                You’re getting responses not because we’re unused to being challenged, but because we want to respond to you for whatever reason. My response here is explaining our inner workings so hopefully you can come away from this thread seeing us as people with ideas that we believe. We haven’t been tricked into thinking as we do, most of us go against the grain of our societies to come to our beliefs. I want to change a mind today, ideally yours, and I’ve chosen a gentle tone full of candor to try to do so. Will it be effective? I have no way of knowing, but I hope so. Please realize we’re not bots or russian agents or trapped in a cult or whatever, we’re humans with thoughts and experiences that have led us to our beliefs.

                hopefully we’ll see you post more!

  • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    Also the intro of the GoFundMe with “I’m this cracker interested in the middle east” is very cringe I know but putting up something about yourself helps show GoFundMe that its legit.

  • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Just want to say I am overwhelmed with all the generous people who have donated, it means so much to Balaha an her family. I’m going to repost once in /c/Mutualaid, after that I will just let the post ride you all have been so great! And thank you for the bumps too!

    Remember if you can’t donate (which is of course very understandable) then please please send to friends and family an repost on social media ! That also helps immensely.

    I will of course repost a thank you message from Balaha an her family here once the funds are donated after I feel like the GoFundMe has reached its maximum potential, which will be July 1st at the latest but will certainly be sent much sooner then that, even if we cant get enough for Her an her family Members to cross through rafah (which seems to be 7,000 dollar’s at the vert least - damn those shamless smugglers an the Egyptian Junta! -) the money still helps immensely for what comes after the war as well as buying food stuffs if worse comes to worse.

    Thank you all again so much :,). I’m going to remake a Twitter account later today an be dm’ing semi big accounts on Twitter to share, it’s a long shot but I think it’s worth going for it! If you have a Twitter account (especially if it has a following of any kind) please feel free to do the same! <3

    • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]@hexbear.netBEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

      نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

      volcel-police