@thefiyahangel: Alienation rises as f/\scism does. Our ideas about community building are going to have to be less traditional in some ways. The truth is online spaces are safe havens for many of us, mutual aid and direct reparations networks are needed and radical third spaces. Knocking on neighbor's doors for some of us isn't just futile, it's dangerous.
I’m autistic and not good with community building kinda stuff. I’m scared I’m gonna be left behind
2024-12-09 19:17:48
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Unfriendlyblackhottie :
Like Baby I’m in the hood 😂
2024-12-09 18:41:08
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shuck 😷 :
Community for me is going to art workshops at the library, keeping socks in my bag to give to the unhoused guy I see by the Burger King, and going to the local thrift instead of goodwill
2024-12-09 21:44:43
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theibissociety :
I'd respectfully argue that the point still stands. If community building is something you care about (key point), then doing so even in hostile/volatile environments is a necessary form of protest and activitism. It isn't suppose to be easy. That is to say, people with the lowest social capital in the community (i.e. bigots) either have to raise their capital by changing anti-social behavior and assimilating or leave due to alienation.
2024-12-09 23:12:17
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Misha :
we have more community in the hood than the suburbs could ever hope for... the "hood" creates every single popular dialect, clothing style, music style, and every political uprising.
2024-12-09 18:59:47
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Ella Shorthouse :
none of my neighbors have ramps and I need a wheelchair. like. that is correct I have not been visiting them.
2024-12-10 01:39:59
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Two Maya Derens :
thank you. classism and elitism are part of so much pseudo leftist organizing discourse, it sickens me sometimes
2024-12-10 08:18:55
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:p :
my neighbors don’t even like when the kids play outside 😑🙄
2024-12-09 22:02:29
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Crystal, please. 🤦🏾♀️ :
🗣WE DON'T ALL LIVE IN NEIGHBORHOODSSSSSSSSSSS
2024-12-10 01:44:57
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landback :
i dont love my neighbors but i do know them and have their numbers. thats community were not friends but if something happens they are reliable
2024-12-09 23:36:31
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vivisected4funsies :
not everyone can do direct community. online communities count. idk why leftists want to sow dissent by invalidating that. you have to be safe first
2024-12-09 18:37:12
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Kimber Maddox :
I live in an RV park. My "neighbors" change every few months. Our community isn't always what's most physically local to us.
2024-12-10 04:13:14
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Stone🧚🏾♂️ (they/them) :
THANK YOU!! I literally scream internally everytime I hear that take like pls some of these ppl literally don’t want me here as a 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈person and I’m the only one masking.
2024-12-10 05:06:46
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₊˚ʚ₍ᐢ. ̫.ᐢ₎₊˚✧ ゚🪶 :
this is real on many levels. sometimes its not safe- i let a neighbor use my bathroom once+bought him food cus he was locked out… subsequently got stalked & harassed by him for weeks😐
2024-12-10 14:56:47
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Skye Mama :
right. my neighbors have the block locked down with cops every yr and the rest of the block is abandoned. i tried to befriend neighbors and they stole my dog, plants, and solar lights 😭
2024-12-10 04:02:22
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hanny.nanny :
me in Texas surrounded by Trump flags 😳😳
with them???
2024-12-10 02:34:14
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peachy-keen :
A lot of lefties forget about those of us living in conservative areas. They need to look outside of their blue bubble every once in a while.
2024-12-09 20:00:56
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Josh - PersonalZombie :
I'm in apartments my neighbors change monthly
2024-12-10 01:45:56
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samnthacali :
Nah mine try to be in my business and one of the husbands is weird
2024-12-09 20:11:26
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😴 boring :
Yeah I’m kinda scared of my neighbors
2024-12-09 20:35:52
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Snipe :
Also like… as a queer person, I remember the time before we had rights, and straight people in your neighborhood were as likely to bury you as defend you
2024-12-09 19:00:57
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Krazzy :
My neighbors robbed me 😭
2024-12-09 19:13:26
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Percy :
There are trump flags Everywhere out here, and one of my neighbors flew a flag with a very specific german hate symbol on it for about a month, im not playing roulette out here. I vaguely trust exactly two of my neighbors to not be Awful, and thats because i know them from somewhere else and happen to live near them 😅
2024-12-09 22:21:51
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aquari222 :
& this idea that you have to be in community w/ the people you live around, regardless of their politic, is exactly how movements become destroyed. bigotry/isms go unchecked for the sake of community
2024-12-09 22:02:37
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van 🍓 :
my neighbors are all trump supporters and immensely racist
2024-12-09 21:05:58
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Sal :
I agree, I always thought the sentiment was so dismissive not people saying it to actually promote building community...the easiest ways I've found, as a trans and queer person living in southeast-
2024-12-10 13:53:02
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maegickal :
This! I’ve just been focusing on enriching my mind/learning skills in the meantime.
2024-12-09 22:00:27
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5glyph5 :
THANK YOU. I hate when people say that, it’s so isolating. I literally live next to a property owner who runs scam halfway houses to steal many from vulnerable in recovery and he’s a dick.
2024-12-09 20:03:47
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dontstalkmeheaux 💋 :
ohhh no that’s unsafe but i agree like our neighbors ain’t friendly I can’t just be knocking on doors for some suga 😭
2024-12-10 00:15:48
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Barabajagal :
I used to live in a neighborhood where I knew all my neighbors but that took YEARS of feeling out the street. I moved a year ago into an apartment And it feels impossible here 😩
2024-12-09 22:51:15
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princess.bunnie :
"Community" goes both ways. My non-black neighbors dont even want to ride the elevator with me. I'd rather have community w ppl who are like-minded even if it is online or otherwise not local
2024-12-09 21:28:20
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LilPan :
went to introduce myself to my neighbor after moving in, that lady don't like me 😂 dude next to me is violent and weird too 🤦🏾♂️
2024-12-09 19:51:13
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Tyrus :
I'm getting left behind in this community thing and at this point I just gotta accept it
2024-12-10 12:25:59
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zzzbee333 :
I’m rural in a red state and I have no options.
2024-12-10 11:38:29
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Lord Jamal :
I lucked out my neighbors are an elderly black family they routinely give my veggies out of their garden and I help them with their technology. I watch they house when they travel
2024-12-10 02:08:32
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Deus ex machina :
Can relate
2024-12-09 19:09:47
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Roseinclovers :
I live within ten feet of not one but at least 3 (redacted none of my business im not a narc) thank you very much😅 most have big ass scary dogs. not trying to be dog chow
2024-12-09 18:42:44
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jill :
knocked on my neighbors door and he yelled at me through the door—didn’t even care enough to open it lol
2024-12-10 01:10:13
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Soup the Anarchist :
my neighbors sell meth and scream daily and break windows when they don't like how you looked at them. thank you for saying this.
2024-12-09 23:00:38
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Saga :
i live in the red corner of a blue state 💀
2024-12-09 22:25:39
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Lauran :
I live in a college town. I get new neighbors every semester.
2024-12-10 14:15:55
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TK71 :
Thank you for this.
2024-12-10 03:41:14
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Kylie Lynn :
I don’t like my neighbors, and have no desire to know them, however if I saw them in need or danger I would help cause they are my neighbors. I don’t think it’s necessary for us to all be friends 😅
2024-12-10 02:38:35
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youaintknowjacq :
My neighbors to the right don't speak English and the house to the left is an Air B&B, so...
2024-12-10 01:11:35
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tisjustexisting :
I live in the trenches deadass
2024-12-09 23:36:38
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Sharena :
this
2024-12-09 19:20:03
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