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Yeah I got this way during the last wave of BLM protests. You'd have a couple cool demos at the beginning, but it'd eventually fizzle out into Harry Potter meme signs. People say it's an opportunity to radicalize people but I don't think I'm charismatic or confident enough for that. I ended up feeling pretty isolated at most of them. I'd probably feel different if I went to events as part of an Org but I don't got one of those right now.
Find someone selling a newspaper and chat with them, that's what the newspaper is for. They're probably in a deeply unpleasant org but one thing you learn as a communist is to have a lot of friends in wildly different orgs, it makes large scale action way easier if you can stop dunking on each other over the theory of value or the correct praaxis against Austria Hungary at protests.
Tried this and now I just have invites to 20 Trot groups with on average 5 members (all of whom are over 45).
Left unity in action