"You mean you didn't have the foresight to buy a fully-stocked, energy sustainable, self-sufficient compound in New Zealand? Well, what can we say? People need to plan ahead or we can't help."
And that completely inadequate warning will then provide the excuse to absolve ourselves of any moral responsibility to those impacted because “they were told to leave and didn’t”
I had a huge falling out with a former friend around Katrina because that was his line. It was coupled with a deeply unpleasant bit of joy at the impending carnage.
It's the myth of the apocalypse. People mistaking their self-sufficient fantasies as having any basis in reality. Ask one of them about subsistence farming communities and their heads explode.
Gift economies are another good one to throw at them. The idea of different groups exchanging resources at no set rate because they're reliant on each other? Aneurism-inducing.
Seven figures in assets isn’t really enough these days. Eight really is baseline now. Ten million, if we hit ten million in fungible assets we will be able to have a retirement, afford medical care, and afford some long term care.
Years back, there was a Daily Show bit where they went to a GOP convention, got into a debate about poverty, and said "You know what poor people should do? Get themselves some of them Taco Bell chalupas."
I think about this all the time, because it's gone from an absurd joke to mainstream ideology.
Don't worry, they'll also be circulating disinformation so no one will know how to leave or where to go, and pregnant women will be stopped at the checkpoints anyway
They practiced a lot of this with Covid and they were very effective in getting people to believe that a virus that has killed a million people and disabled many more was just a cold. It’s just mild. Go back to work, it’s just those pesky disabled people dying. Masks are scarlet letters, etc. etc
Yes hello Betterhelpdotcom? I uh got a coupon for 2 weeks of discounted online consultations because my village was destroyed in the water wars? Oh yes I’ll hold thank you
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I think about this all the time, because it's gone from an absurd joke to mainstream ideology.
https://bsky.app/profile/liisalee.bsky.social/post/3kbn5cxla6i2g
lmao
what do we want?
the end to fossil fuels!
when do we want it?
immediately after men get therapy and heal!
Anti-refugee policies are pro-genocide policies