How dangerous is it to be a communist in the US? Should I be very hush hush about it? I won’t ever be open about it but I’m just wondering how secretive I should be. Most of my close friends and certain family members know that I am a “Socialist”. I am pretty young and still need to start my life and I don’t want to ruin my chances of anything.

Some precautions I’ve taken are installing a vpn and only going doing commie stuff with vpn on. I’ve separated personal and political social media accounts and never post political stuff on my personal ones. Should I be doing any other things?

Thank you in advance

  • Seanchaí (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    You say “doing commie stuff with vpn on” but I am sort of wondering: what does it mean to “do commie stuff” online? What does it mean to be a communist if you’re not actually out there actively participating in trying to make communism a reality?

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      2 years ago

      Even Lenin and Stalin had to do running and hiding.

      Most communists and socialists have converted themselves. The idiot capitalists think college professors convert young kids. But I was a science major and science minor and no-one in college ever mentioned politics. But I happened to read Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament, fell for Jesus, and into Christian Socialism. From there it was just a step to communism. This is driving the evil capitalists mad!

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      2 years ago

      Yeah obviously I’m not doing praxis online, I do talk to people and organize stuff in my community online though so I’d like to protect myself.