I take covid seriously so I don't want to go to a bar, and even if I took it less seriously I wouldn't want to date the kind of person who spends their time at a bar fielding romantic inquiries during a pandemic. I've tried dating apps and have not had any good experiences to speak of. I unfortunately have to work but I assure you that during a shift of hard manual labor in sometimes over 100 degree conditions and extremely high humidity, the last thing I'm thinking about is whether that guy who is literally soaked head to toe in sweat, dirt, miscellaneous grease, and potentially hazardous chemicals is cute.
How does this even work? The last time I was around people I could just freely interact with and try my luck I was in my first year of high school, when I had a crush on a girl 3 years older than me which was a prospect so doomed to fail that even I knew better than to pursue it.
I have not found lefty orgs to be a good place to find friends. Granted they're good for finding leftists, and I just can't be friends with anyone outside of explicit leftists these days (lots of weird transphobes and racists around here)
Leftist orgs are often full of weird interpersonal petty drama that can quickly sour the org itself. Also just having politics in common with someone doesn't always mean they have other stuff in common. There are a lot of good comrades out there though.