Got it, yeah I read the part towards the end but didn’t know if you were speaking directly to the white nationalists of the Cascadia/State of Jefferson movement, which I havent heard much about in years, or more broadly about white nationalism in the region.

I do feel like it’s a difficult job trying to convince people that the democratic party isn’t in their best interests, even though none of these are swing states. People seem so firmly entrenched in their robust support for the dems, but at the very best they rely on “the lesser of two evils” and refuse to budge on that. Maybe it’s less focus on that and focusing more on mutual aid/community building before trying to delve into politics directly?

I think I’m mostly surprised because he’s received quite a bit of media attention, or at least he did for a minute but I guess if he didn’t even make it on the ballot in some places that would obviously affect the numbers

Just read your post and you may have answered the question, but the concept of Cascadian secession has already been taken up by conservatives and white nationalists, right? So if it were to be a movement to try and radicalize more people to the left how would we break away from that association?

Really surprised that Claudia de la Cruz overtook Cornel West so significantly

I get really anxious when I hear these phrases as well, I get really anxious of being judged for my social awkwardness, being off putting for being autistic, not being “radical” or well read enough and just having the motivation to try to do the things while burnt out for years is a struggle too.

I use Instagram and have been able to follow accounts from local mutual aid groups who post about their open meetings and other events around town such as teach-ins, share fairs, food not bombs, etc. That’s been helpful, and I plan on tryyyying to engage with some groups in the near future now that I know some people who go.

A good start might be to see if there is a Food Not Bombs near you that you can volunteer at. Or try volunteering at warming centers or homeless shelters; there are often a lot of radical people who put time and energy into things like that.

Your ability to find groups like this is gonna vary, I’m lucky to live in a place where there is an abundance of different groups to join.

I really really really hate the people who are running my place of work into the ground. It makes me wanna cry because I’ve been so invested in it for so long because I believed in the mission

But next Friday is my last day and I’m able to just…not work. And the closer it gets the scarier it’s becoming. I might wanna go get my MSW next year but I have to put in my application by January. Then what? Can I afford it? Do I even want to do social work anymore? Of course I find other shit to worry about when I’m quitting so I don’t have to worry about anything lol.

Anyway what’s door dashing like?

Hey, sorry to respond so late to this! I appreciate your detailed response a lot, will give me a lot to think about. I don’t know that it sits right with me to say that an anarchist would “do better” when it comes to recognizing abusive patterns of behavior cuz that seeks to be a broad generalization but I have not ran in explicitly anarchist or ML spaces Irl so maybe it’s more likely than with MLs in general. I am also surprised/not surprised to hear about the lack of self critique in actual active leninist groups. People here seem to be able to, for the most part, reckon with the fact that there are problems and issues with lenin/marx/Stalin etc. But maybe, being pretty new to studying this stuff, there is more apologia going on than I recognize. When I have some time I’ll look at the links it included. Thanks! (I’ve never used it/it’s pronouns so I hope “it included” is correct instead of “you included”)

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