Meh I tried working with a socialist group and they were not active or doing much honestly. We are all pretty tired and scared of repurcussions while not yet broken enough down to find them worse than the alternative of doing nothing.
Honestly if there is a future that teaches history about this period of time we will be viewed collectively on the same level as the Germans who hid and didn’t rock the boat during WW2.
But also, I have met 2 tankies now in real life. Both shut in antisocial boyfriends to a woman I know or is a friend of my SO and wow… I really struggle to be near them and not for the reasons you think. They are just so annoying, don’t like to talk to anyone act like I’m some kind of weirdo for being able to even just talk to an employee in a store and only interested in conversations that they want to talk about exclusively and back to quiet the moment it’s not that one, and they don’t even make an effort to keep a conversation going. It’s always someone else’s job and boy does it get tiring fast.
The world is just so many closed off bubbles with no real way to get across them and start conversations. I’m not rich enough or ignorant of real issues to be with the affluent and go getters, I’m not antisocial enough for those scared of everyone. I’m not carefree enough to be with doomer partiers. Those of us that walk between the singular personality traits are rare and pushed away because everyone want to live their simple lives full of lies if that’s what it takes.
Meh I tried working with a socialist group and they were not active or doing much honestly. We are all pretty tired and scared of repurcussions while not yet broken enough down to find them worse than the alternative of doing nothing.
Honestly if there is a future that teaches history about this period of time we will be viewed collectively on the same level as the Germans who hid and didn’t rock the boat during WW2.
But also, I have met 2 tankies now in real life. Both shut in antisocial boyfriends to a woman I know or is a friend of my SO and wow… I really struggle to be near them and not for the reasons you think. They are just so annoying, don’t like to talk to anyone act like I’m some kind of weirdo for being able to even just talk to an employee in a store and only interested in conversations that they want to talk about exclusively and back to quiet the moment it’s not that one, and they don’t even make an effort to keep a conversation going. It’s always someone else’s job and boy does it get tiring fast.
The world is just so many closed off bubbles with no real way to get across them and start conversations. I’m not rich enough or ignorant of real issues to be with the affluent and go getters, I’m not antisocial enough for those scared of everyone. I’m not carefree enough to be with doomer partiers. Those of us that walk between the singular personality traits are rare and pushed away because everyone want to live their simple lives full of lies if that’s what it takes.
Here there’s not much to be afraid of so we have contacted politicians to push for our policies and stuff.
What you can do is charity work, that’s a great way to meet people and do some good in one go with no risk. That’s how the group I’m with got started.