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How do you meet based people when you're a suburbanite? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by sleeplessone@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml
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It is becoming increasingly clear to me that I need to expand my social circle. Most people I'm in a position to see in real life regularly are filled with a lot of brainworms: owning property is seen as a goal that one would be crazy not to pursue, the police and military are seen as sacred institutions, and I even know a few trumpanzees. I need to make new connections, but I'm a weird suburbanite shut-in with a weird demeanor that is offputting to normal people, and I'm worried that trying to meet new friends through my existing friends will just further entrench me into the petite bourgeois crackershpere.

How do you meet based people when you're just far enough from the nearest city for regular travel back and forth to be inconvenient and are bad at making friends in the first place?

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[–] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you tried looking for socialist organizations that may exist in your area? Any of them, even groups like CPUSA or a DSA chapter if your in the US?

Any actvist organizations as well may work.

That's the best advice I can give really unfortunately.

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is one I could try to get in good with. I think I weirded out the PSL when I included a bunch of verbal self-flagellation for being a parasitic cracker.

[–] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Yes that would likely weird out a socialist org. Though if PSL is near by then perhaps sign up to their email list so that your updated on local action. From there you can interact with other comrades in person.

That's about all the advice I have.