Hi. I’m alienated, living in the imperialist core, I have no political representation, and none of my friends are communists. Except from this website I feel extremely isolated. How are the rest of you faring?
i dont, and have embraced bimbofication
I did that for a while last year, my brain just snapped and I had to shut all of it off so I got really into formula one
Try my best not to think about bad things when I’m doing well mentally. Esp by pursuing hobbies
some of y’all are sane? that’s crazy
I’m an indigenous non binary person. It’s very hard. My parents are reactionary ten o clock news juice drinkers. My older siblings are hardcore Trump lovers. The town I live in are full of “you will eat bug because woke” fascists. All my income is vacuumed by landlords and greedy corporations while being slashed by my hog boss who’d rather sink his workers than sacrifice endless first class flights to vacation in Singapore. Every corner I turn it seems like Guy Debord was right.
I cry myself to sleep sometimes and every day I wake up wondering how tf did I make it yesterday.
Not an option for everybody, but I had to make a very difficult decision (at the time) to leave the only place and people I ever knew to go live somewhere with opportunity and generally political beliefs that wouldn’t kill me/see me as subhuman.
It was the best thing I ever did for myself even though I had to restart my “career” if you could call it that at that point. I still miss the place I’m from very deeply. It’s like I live in a completely different world now, which I love in its own way, but every time I go back to visit I think about how I could just not leave this time. I love it. But there’s nothing and nobody for me there.
I was in a similar situation to you. No friends with tolerable politics, feeling isolated. Now I don’t have a single friend who would hear the words “I am a socialist” and think anything poorly about it. It’s been life changing. I know that really there are shitty people everywhere, but in areas with a lot of people you’re far more likely to find some who aren’t.
I just left. Moved to Vietnam almost two years ago. Moving to China next month.
What do you do for work if you don’t mind me asking? I’ve always considered this but I don’t think they have much need for white westerners without college degrees :(
My partner does TEFL-teaching which does require a degree of some kind. I work as a per-hour contractor for the company that I was a W-2 employee for back in the states. I’m losing that gig in a month though, because they don’t trust my network from China. I might have to go the TEFL route too.
