I’ve shat on my local organizing group enough on here but I feel like I’m pretty safe to keep continuing to do so. They want to use GroupMe for communication and signal for “on the ground, confidential communication at protests.” I’m sort of the only one pushing back but I’m not a leader, so I have no power whatsoever. Sounds absolutely disastrous

Unfortunately I probably sound very paranoid to most in this group because lot of people do this to make themselves feel better (which you can’t really argue against).

But yeah there is nothing that resembles an organized left in 2025 and I’m starting to feel like there will never be. I’m afraid what I’m describing is happening all over the country, and how could it not be? A lot of people in my (duct-taped) org are holding out for the democrats’ hard shift left. It’s just depressing at this point

  • trinicorn [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    yiiiiikes that seems pretty bad, even for a group with no radical aspirations, sounds like you live in a fairly hostile local environment…

    I guess smaller towns its probably harder to be anonymous but still.

    And yeah I do think that there are a lot of depressing-ass orgs out there but hopefully you will find or slowly convert some people if you air your disagreements enough and engage with people personally. Or maybe shit hitting the fan will radicalize them for you. It’s better to be prepared ahead of time but you can’t win em all