Regularly making jokes about "indians", e.g. "Bruh sickass gun, bruh imagine if you were using that gun to fight indians".
wow. i've heard some toxic ass waste before and your bullet list is choice, but this is a new one on me.
anyway, i'm not sure i have relevant life experience enough to give advice. in my late 20s i left my home town to go join a friend in a shitty-pay job doing conservation type work. i moved further and further away to places where i knew no one, to chase seasonal outdoor work. i would make and leave friends through my own moving or through the transient nature of seasonal, low pay work. the benefit was that pretty much everybody gave a shit about the environment, the effort/value of physical work, and nobody was really caught up in consumerism. the point being, it was easy to meet people with shared values and shared social availability just by working.
i bumbled my way back to school around 30 for something related and it turned into a career in my 40s where i was able to put down roots and now exist in a completely different social context than the one where i grew up. i certainly don't live in some socialist utopia. the regional political machines here are all center-right or worse, but i have my people and my work to make things better.
i quit FB and all of that years ago, but by all accounts my original high school cohort is almost entirely reactionary assholes. where i grew up is a laboratory for developing reactionary politics. i barely keep in touch with any of my old "friends". the last time i visited family and made an effort to appear at some function i had expected to be chill, talking to some of them was like talking to an alien that learned how to speak by listening to talk radio. some are absolutely disgusting people. i pushed back a lot more than i would have if i still lived there, recommended some literature, and haven't been back for probably 6 years.
i don't really recommend trying to track down seasonal conservation work, because it can and generally is highly exploitative. it also has a well above average chance to result in injury and there are no medical benefits. but what i would say, is look for ways to make your professional/working situation incorporate some of your values. we tend to spend half of our waking life at "work", so if you can make that time be spent in relative service to your values, it can be an avenue to a new social environment. if you combine that with moving to a new community/place/area, it can be a whole new world.
wow. i've heard some toxic ass waste before and your bullet list is choice, but this is a new one on me.
anyway, i'm not sure i have relevant life experience enough to give advice. in my late 20s i left my home town to go join a friend in a shitty-pay job doing conservation type work. i moved further and further away to places where i knew no one, to chase seasonal outdoor work. i would make and leave friends through my own moving or through the transient nature of seasonal, low pay work. the benefit was that pretty much everybody gave a shit about the environment, the effort/value of physical work, and nobody was really caught up in consumerism. the point being, it was easy to meet people with shared values and shared social availability just by working.
i bumbled my way back to school around 30 for something related and it turned into a career in my 40s where i was able to put down roots and now exist in a completely different social context than the one where i grew up. i certainly don't live in some socialist utopia. the regional political machines here are all center-right or worse, but i have my people and my work to make things better.
i quit FB and all of that years ago, but by all accounts my original high school cohort is almost entirely reactionary assholes. where i grew up is a laboratory for developing reactionary politics. i barely keep in touch with any of my old "friends". the last time i visited family and made an effort to appear at some function i had expected to be chill, talking to some of them was like talking to an alien that learned how to speak by listening to talk radio. some are absolutely disgusting people. i pushed back a lot more than i would have if i still lived there, recommended some literature, and haven't been back for probably 6 years.
i don't really recommend trying to track down seasonal conservation work, because it can and generally is highly exploitative. it also has a well above average chance to result in injury and there are no medical benefits. but what i would say, is look for ways to make your professional/working situation incorporate some of your values. we tend to spend half of our waking life at "work", so if you can make that time be spent in relative service to your values, it can be an avenue to a new social environment. if you combine that with moving to a new community/place/area, it can be a whole new world.