Hello! I am a comrade born and there by stuck in the rural south of America. As a marxist, I am very isolated since I live in a very conservative part of the country. I happened upon this community yesterday, spent some time looking around, and joined today. I had no idea marxist social forums like this even existed, so I am just very excited to see a collection of fellow comrades online that isn’t stuck and struggling with the censorship of facebook or other mainstream social sites. So this is just my hello, and a bit of where I come from (don’t want to get too specific due to the history of organization like COINTELPRO) and just to say, I’m really glad to see a community like this exists! I had really thought under our current stage of capitalism something like this would be weeded out of existence. LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!

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      they took me they took me in the ship they probed me i think they left it in there i hear it whispering to me sometimes the great Zulu demands pie apple pie

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      man you got no idea. neioghbor tried to break into my house and beat me becuase he thought i was recording / spying on his wife n kids based on HOW I PARK MY CAR IN MY OWN LAWN. these people are fucking insane

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          yeah for real man, the rest of my neighbors except one are all basically trap houses. One of them is a straight up massive drug dealer (like the baaad stuff) and literally everyone knows it, I’m sure people have alerted the authorities on them multipule times, but nah they still there just… moving shit. And man, as an ex addict, i get a lot of the struggles, but the tweakers in this town, most the damn population, are fucking bananas.

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    Welcome! I know Conservatives are more susceptible to some Marxist talking points than other libs (guns, corporations, do your own research, Ukraine, and so on), but of course a lot of them are fasc-y or McCarthyist too. Stay safe.

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    Hello, fellow southern comrade! I’m sorry you’re stuck down here, but there are a few of us around. Found my people near Knoxville. I hope you can find some where you are, too.

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      I guess I’m not aware of the conservative Indian demographic, you mean like natives? Good god seems a lot like shooting themselves in the foot. But I dunno, I’ve heard some pretty racey and extremely homophobic/transphobic shit out here. I went to school with a kid that openly believed inter-racial marriage should be punished, if that says anything.

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          Ohhh okay. When he said north I thought they were referring to the Native population concentrated in the north part America. I guess for those that don’t know here in America for a long time (generally white people) referred to Natives as Indians as well, and I was raised by uh… well let’s say a family with some opinions on 'em, so it kinda didn’t register for me they were asking about the country. (Yes, I know native american is the proper term, it’s what I use but my southern american ears have kinda just gotten used to hearing it being talked about both ways growing up) But to answer the question on if southern americans being more conservative than the northern Indians in India, again, I’m not too familiar with the current demographic. I did some reading of WWII and Ghandi era resistance and what not but I’m not sure how the repressive right wing elements have evolved into the modern day as I just haven’t kept up. I didn’t know india even had a large conservative demographic, as I’ve last heard a few years ago I think now that India had one of the largest socialist / communist protest in history, thought i read that damn near a million or more people covered the streets in an ocean of red and black flags. But that’s about my most recent knowledge of their internal political situation, if I’m being honest. I wouldn’t mind being enlightened to whatever’s going on there though, that’s for sure!

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            Ngl, I thought they meant indigenous at first too. In terms of current India, the current Modi government is pretty much fascist. The party had ties to the OG European fascists, and the current government has promoted anti-Islamic pogroms.