The only place I can think of is Minneapolis and that’s only because whenever I see people protesting there they’re always saying the coolest shit. Feel free to tell me I’m wrong because I’ve never been there.
Don’t doxx yourself obviously. I’m just tired of being surrounded by these people all the time.
A Minneapolis school just got caught monitoring kids who search LGBTQ keywords, reporting them to administrators, and outing them to their parents.
https://www.the74million.org/article/gaggle-surveillance-minnesapolis-families-not-smart-ai-monitoring/
i would like to out the people responsible for this
out them from a window on the tenth floor of a building
What the fuck. I thought surveillance was bad when I was in school but this is fucking insane. 24/7 monitoring of their device activity by the school and snitching on them to parents and authorities. How the fuck does anyone think this makes kids better off?
Is there anywhere where anti-capitalism is the dominant ideology? No.
Are there places with growing/decent pockets of leftists? Sure.
In my or my friend's experiences Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, and Chicago all have decent pockets of leftists.
I'm sure there's more, but you have to search for people since people don't walk around with signs saying "I'm a communist!" (Yet)
God bless'em, but Trot groups do. Showing up and tabling with signs and literature advocating for "Socialist Revolution" and trying to sell news papers is actually kind of badass.
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Ha! I meant individual people not people under the banner of an org. PSL, DSA, & Rosa Negra I've seen all out under leftist banners.
I mean you go far enough off the road up here and there's literally nobody around but you, so it's technically wherever you are in the vast wilderness of Alaska is an inhabited places not packed with libs or chuds.
Except it's filled with libs because you're there
:heart-sickle:
I hate to say it, but it each other is all we got comrade.
I am unironically thinking about getting to the point where I can send out a prompt for people on here to live with/near me.
Lots of people alone, demoralized, barely making it... my life situation is the opposite of all these. My location... can accommodate people.
you'd be putting yourself at risk but it would actually be useful to organize something like that. I think the people on the discord are a little more tight and trust each other, maybe you can do something with them.
with my situation, two bad months and I might be demoralized enough to dm you.
you’d be putting yourself at risk
Hahahahahaha. Risk has gotten to know me like an old friend.
No. Even in supposedly “Commiefornia” I’m hesitant to wear a hammer and sickle pin on my bag on the chance some psycho chud tries to give me shit on the train or walking down the street. However you’re better off meeting other leftists in bigger cities or university towns. Just how it is.
Just laugh at them and ask them if they like being a slave, I drive around with a hammer and sickle on my car in the south lol
Maybe breaking down everyone into broadly defined stereotypes is a shitty way to live. People are more complex irl than on reddit or whatever.
This is fine and good until like the 200th person you encounter who openly says something transphobic, or says homeless people should die, or is casually racist. I know people are products of their upbringing and surroundings, but eventually it wears away on the soul to be around so many people who express the most disgusting things and know there's not much you can do about it.
What am I gonna do, make a scene at work every single day? Find another job just to find people who are similar? Never talk to my family again?
I wouldn't even call most people I encounter politically oriented except a rare few. The bigotry though is absolutely endemic and flows out of them so easily that I just can't handle this. Saying something transphobic comes as easily as saying good morning to these people.
I don't even get angry at them anymore, I just get sad.
I live in the south btw
Your just going to encounter some assholes in life no way around it. If yr odds are 1 in 200 that's pretty good imo.
I live in the south too in a pretty rural area. People are pretty chill, there is kind of a libertarian "you do your thing, I do mine" attitude. There are a bunch of transplants moving here from NYC and Cali and honestly I like the locals way better. Most of them at least think the system/ the government is fucked up, whereas the lib transplants are just insane pod people, marketers/entrepreneurs/spreadsheet makers.
They're not even assholes, that's the problem with it. They're normal, everyday people and the normal, everyday attitude I encounter isn't chill, it's that homeless people are less than human and that trans people are monsters. I wish people had some kind of do your own thing attitude here. I live in a big urban area, the attitude is you should hustle, grind and work. Become an entrepreneur or get a master's degree or you're scum. It's destroying my brain.
I've met leftists here and have worked with some of them and they're the only people I've met around who are somewhat normal.
Liberal ideas and right wing ideas are woven in everywhere. How visible they are is another thing. Libs just know to keep their homophobic or racist thoughts to themself imo, or couch them in some glossy idpol.
Anyway, from my experience, so called progressive cities are just expensive/gentrified/yuppy echo chambers. And they have all kinda mushed together into very similar cities at this point.
No. Nowhere in America has good politics. Good things do not happen in the bad things country
Liberal Mountain is in Idaho
but screwing up geography is very important American custom so thank you for furthering our culture
If you are thinking about moving to Minneapolis, it's a lovely city, but it's one of many Midwestern cities that is experiencing extreme gentrification, with much of the Cities more recent growths in liberal/leftist (leans far more liberal) political activism coming from a combination of older African-American and newer Somali-American communities, the music scene that grew up in the 80's, and always systemically ironic California expats who are the primary consumers of the gentrification model. Otherwise, apolitical chuddishness is kinda the normal unless you are way into the rural areas or upper bourgeois in the area.
Personally, if you are looking to be in that general area, I would suggest Madison or Milwaukee. While both have gentrification problems (particularly Milwaukee), they also have a far larger and more historic activist tradition that dates all the way back to the German settlers (which itself is problematic, I know). That being said, what that means is that co-op living is a far more common thing in those cities, which is traditionally how many of the political activist types I know meet for the first time. That being said, the activism cuts both ways, and out in Kenosha you will find the most virulent and nasty racist chuds or if you go down to Janesville or many other areas, libertarianism in all it's contradictions is the most dominant strain of political thought.
Or you could just try to go to Chicago and Detroit, but most of their activism is caught up in the Democratic party machine.
Well, your third option is hippies, and I know how this place feels about hippies
There are cool hippies who hang around leftist scenes and hand out food, but there are also weird cults who are anything from benign multi-level marketing scammers selling incense to one another to the more worrying hippies who form horrifying sex cults in the woods. that's been my general experience
It seems like Seattle is always popping off with comrades but there's a lot of fash too.
I have a lib friend who lives there. He complains that he’s trapped in an apartment with a bunch of communists but I’m not sure if they’re actually communists or like Warren supporters.
From a very jaded experience if it’s the pnw they’re either anarchists or libs
Nope. Living in NE and there's no shot of escaping them. I don't even bring politics up anymore and it's liberals fucking everywhere saying nonsense, repeating bullshit. You can challenge their assertions, and they can publicly call you an -ist.
Better off looking for literally anyone who shares an opinion with you than escaping to where the commies are imo
99% of people over the age of 45 who follow politics are either a lib or a chud, so no. Your best bet is "someone that skews very young", but that's no way to live life.
