Tips to make friends without spending money are welcome. I've spent years in a city without making friends.
Luckily even though I'm a minority in America, I'm not a minority in my city. :) It's filled with people of my ethnicity. So I have more opportunities to be closer with my people, and I want do the right things to get there.
Btw they don't have to be my ethnicity. Just wanna make friends to begin with. My dream is to meet cool communists around here. It's a minority city, and I figure I can't be the only one.
The only way to really focus on communists would be by going to demonstrations, lectures, reading groups, bookstores, organizations, picket lines, arts, hangout places etc that communists would be attracted to. Highly variable still. Careful you dont get mixed up in one of the weird cults.
If you just want to make friends in general, find an activity where there is some sort of structured task which allows for socialization. Like volunteering or sports. I used to volunteer at music festivals and take a job like cleaning up the trash because it means you just wander around with another person for a couple hours picking up empty water bottles. If you dont like each other theres the music.
Also if there are any casual, low pressure dating type websites they are good for making friends. I used to be on ok cupid a lot. I dont think i ever even hooked up with anyone i met there and certainly never dated long term but i did meet lots of chill people and it expanded my social circle.
i have never had this kind of acquaintance develop into anything outside of the structured activity or group thing.
One of those cults show off a guy as of he's the new Mao, but it's a people's revolution, not one guy's revolution. I can't not be a cult. I could always post here about if I suspect there's a cult trying to seduce me into joining.
I'm one of the dumber Communists who haven't read much theory, and often avoid it because I need easy happy adventure books. I like reading though and I'll find things to occupy my time while seeking out more knowledgeable communists to talk with and have rant at me. How do I find the right libraries?
Look at what reading groups they feature, usually its posted online in a bigger city or up front at the library.
As for cults/sketch groups another warning sign is big dues up front, a dollar or two sleep on, but if they want anything more than that, proof of income etc, run. My old city was filled with weirdo cults of all sorts preying upon the isolated and weird.
Sports is another good way to meet friends, you don't actually have to be good unless you're trying for something professional.