Submitted by Raxalor in AskRaddle

Almost all of my friends are from back in my high school days over a decade ago.

Someone I have considered among my best of friends is showing how deeply reactionary his real beliefs are. He use to consider himself a Libertarian, so there was at least some overlap of things we could agree on... now he's deep-throating boots and thinks that the Kenosha shooter was justified murdering people.

I need new friends.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

You probably gotta say a little around relevant factors, are you in a small town, that kind of thing.

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Raxalor OP wrote

I'm looking more for general ideas and what other people may have done to find friends that aren't status-quo-warriors or worse.

I'm moving relatively soon, but it's still far enough out that I don't know if I'll be near a city or 50 miles out.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

One of my answers to everything is to start a reading group.

If I'm near a city I'll try to see if there's a local infoshop or cafe or whatever. I'll also look out for events in the area with interesting stuff going on. If not that then local lefty organisations.Not for the leftism so much as to just watch all of them, because in a group of lefties or in my world usually decolonial types there's often a few who are tinged with anti-authoritarianism. I try to hang out there, help out, and make friends that way.

Beyond that just trying to meet loads of people over a long period of time. Can be done the regular way,, just putting yourself out there more. But also dating apps aren't bad for that.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

If it was not corona, i would say, try to go find the local weird folks. You know, the ones doing art, or hackerspace, or a library, etc. Something, anything kind of interesting that has events.

Now everything is much more digital i guess. SIGH

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