What’s stopping you from organizing and/or developing a community in your local area? (hexbear.net)

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I do not mean this as a rhetorical question: I mean it literally. Tell us what’s stopping you! I don’t want to invalidate you, but the opposite. I’m sure people here would love to help if it’s possible. Post away!

Personally, I think Covid and the general amount of work everyone does are the two biggest obstacles to community building. Not just for me, but everybody I know. It’s nearly impossible to build a community when nobody has the energy to even play a video game together, and actually meeting up in person can literally kill you. There are definitely solutions, but we need to realize them as problems first to find them. If you have suggestions, please share them! Same goes for the issues everyone else shares (if they’re ok with help, of course).

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

+18 R district. Most of the "lefties" here are LIB that turn fascist the moment they are scratched. The closest org I have is over a 30 minute drive away and my "availability" is incompatible with it, not to mention the gas costs and the time sinks. For what pissing off the bougie-wink cops to get beaten, jailed, and fired from my job? What would that accomplish? I'm better off giving to things like a Doctors Without Borders, St. Jude, or the local HIV AIDS prevention org that gives out free Narcan. At least that's some material good. Educate my coworkers and turning CHUD family members off from this culture wars bullshit. It's educating in a way spreads, and minimizes risk.

Wacky shift schedules that make regular meeting times not regular and totally off-wack for traditional schedules. Risk to job and potential hyper targeting. Extreme introvert INFJ.

I sacrificed myself for Bernie's 2016 campaign. First interaction as a gentleman fedposting from Bechtel. It was brutal on my body, mind, soul. Until people are done being tricked into D and R are your only options, it's a wall-talk and not worth any more of efforts, time, money, or sanity. I tried. I went all out. Saw the potential, and it was there. And then he squandered it for Her Ego planet-hillary

And the movement choked itself out. Like Obama's massive organization before it. econony

aoc-rashida The Squad were were supposed to be the movement's representatives to try to change the course just turned around and capitulated along with flattened-bernie . #FrauDSquAd and screw the DSA and their bending over for the Does Not Care Corporation while maybe-later-kiddo scolding those who saw no future in the DNC. That writing was on the wall for a long time.

I give a bit to Stein for the amusement factor of being a thorn on the establishment's side. I'll friggin do it again too.

doomer It's just watching the elmofire world burn and the empire sink now. Tired of trying to educate idiots who refuse to learn from even recent history. It's beyond time for education. I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's not happening in my lifetime. There is no path forward. The dominoes are already falling, and unless there is serious hard intervention, nothing is going to stop the inevitable rest of the domino chain from falling as a natural order of events. You don't need to be a psychic or genius to see where it ends or where it is going.

It's like a drunk addicted relative - until they (the country / anglo-burn ) is willing to admit they have a serious problem and needs help, it's just watching a painful slow moving trainwreck. It no longer shocks you. The just keep doing it. After a while the specticle of it all wears off, and you get tired and bored for waiting for the lesson to be learned the hard long way. BLUEBERRIES!