That's a fair take, and I'm not expecting my empty ballots to change any time soon. A couple of years ago, it was non-empty when we had a socialist running for mayor, but aside from that?
True. I don't know where else I can post article links, or diatribes, and have people comment on them, either... Hopefully, someone will make one so we have somewhere else to hang out at.
This is everything wrong with OP's ideas. One does not need a centralized locus of community in order to be social. The ideas portrayed in OP is how cults form.
ok, let's pretend this is the case.
Without pre-communicating where you will be or whom you need to discuss/work with, organize anything that requires more than yourself, and has a soft deadline of "within the next two months" or so.
Describe how you will accomplish this, without a central meeting place, of some sort. no internet forums. No predetermined chat server. No school. No party line phone.
It's silly how you're trying to portray me as some frontier lone wolf who desires a short brutish life.
I'm not portraying you as anything other than what you described: A lone individual, without a community in which to operate in.
Have you ever experienced social exclusion for who you are?
Yes.
Have you ever been turned away from 'community,' because you do not fit the mold of said community
Yes.
Have you experienced the organized push-back from the community when trying to simply exist as yourself?
Yes.
Being a part of (or excluded from) a "community," is not always a choice
True. For a specific community, its often not. You are, of course, able to form communities with anyone who agrees to join your community. Thats how social interaction works.
People who often praise the sacred concept of community miss the coercion that is required to maintain it's integrity.
Did someone coerce you into being their friend? Do you NOT have a group of a couple of friends you do a lot of things with? Do you feel coerced into being a member of the community here, on Raddle?
And I'm not preaching ways to maintain the integrity of any community. Communities often are, and should be, somewhat ephemeral, and topical. And, of course, easy to form.
When the abstract takes precedent over the individual's lived experience you end up with well-organized atrocities. Especially when you are basing your social order on a religious concept.
Except nobody is suggesting such a thing here. You are reading into replies things that are not in the replies.
UberGeek wrote
Reply to Hitler’s birth house will become a police station to keep neo-Nazis away by Ant
In fact, it will become a meeting house for armed neo-nazis.