Like I won’t say that absolutely everything about the USA was bad, necessarily, and I of course have my own biases at play here… But the point sparing the details is really just like, I’ve spent the past month thinking practically every day about how every single US-based communist really must be working in incredibly trying circumstances, if even just visiting had me feeling lethargic and kinda wanting to go home within a week. Now that I’m back home again, that time in the USA is already starting to feel like a strange dream again.
So, uhh, what are your secrets, basically? Like I’m sure that all the nonsense of the USA feels like less of a burden to put up with if you grew up with it and have spent little to no time in other parts of the world, but still. I honestly do not think I could live in the USA until it is decolonized, but when that happens, it wouldn’t be called the USA anymore, anyways.
Idk. I just openly call myself a communist and listen to communist literature at work for all to hear.
Unfortunately most people are too clueless to understand any of it.
If we don’t figure out how to cope with the constant psychological pain then we die
That’s kind of it
My secret is living in the woods, working from home, and finally making enough money to at least not worry about basic survival. I have a lot of sensory issues I wasn’t entirely aware of until recently, so living in a city was horrible for me. Sometimes I miss it being easy to go to a store (30+ miles away now), but being able to walk outside and see a forest, wildlife, and not have to hear my neighbors fucking or fighting is worth it.
However, this existence is almost impossible under normal circumstances. We got an incredible deal on rent because the landlady is kinda okay and we live in an old detached garage that’s been converted into a cabin, so it’s not exactly up to code. But our rent now is the same as it was in a smallish west coast city for a cheap 1br apartment, except we get access to 50+ acres of forest, a creek, etc.
I still exist in a constant state of depression because I know what the world is like outside of this bubble my partner and I have managed to create for ourselves.
So , uhh, what are your secrets, basically?
feels like it can actually do it and I love my comrades
Yeah same lol, being in a party formation that’s explicitly anti-imperialist in the belly of the beast and who work against the active settler colonialism of the US, it really helps practically and psychologically
… it really helps practically and psychologically
psl feels like a life raft in a sea on insanity to me.
i hope that it’s not a leaky life raft because all of the leftist organizations in this country seem to keep shooting themselves in the foot due to internal politics.
i hope that it’s not a leaky life raft because all of the leftist organizations in this country seem to keep shooting themselves in the foot due to internal politics.
I’ve been in for two years and am constantly surprised by how well run it actually is
It’s all I know, really. Does hoping I die in my sleep every night count as a secret to putting up with it?
