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How do you people maintain your sanity in the imperialist core? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

This is basically it. To me, America feels unsalvageable, or at the very least going to get a lot worse. Your options boil down to leave or suck it up, and leaving is hard!