Take care of your neighbors and friends, you're going to need community more than ever.
@scalzi.com You literally wrote the book on Collapsing Empire[s], any advice for people living in the US in 2025?
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Look on the bright side! Great time to #Downsize and #FengShui your life!
Hiding in plain sight in the Deep South…
No offence to your family, but do they have brain injuries or something?
I just could no longer ignore that their morals vs mine are so out of line that it built up animosity in me…I’m better and happier without them.
Must be tough.
We have visited twice and it always felt like we were leaving what should’ve been home! The Great Barrier Reef is spectacular…can’t wait to visit again.
I hadn't considered that.
Ensure you are prepared for emergencies and have extra where you can to assist others who may be of need.
From: a concerned Canadian.
- American but my next door neighbor has a Trump sticker on his truck.
The people you surround yourself with is the most important thing be there for them and they’ll be there for you. The second is save everything you’ll never know when it’ll come in useful.
In this fight to keep our American Democracy, the mental well-being of ourselves and our communities *are* logistics.
I ain't saying it's easy. And I ain't saying you gotta. But no one else is gonna do it. So when you're ready, figure out a way to just try.
And this is why we are where we are: those monsters are coddled for destroying the lives of others.
I'm not privileged enough to do that. Trump voters got an earful & were cut out of my life for stabbing me in the back.
ANYONE who voted for Trump in 2024 failed every test of morality and decency. You CANNOT be a good person and have voted for Trump in 2024. Period. These are NOT your friends. They're monsters. Nazis. Malignant racists & misogynists. Cruel assholes.
Sic Semper Tyrannis applies to myself first. If I disallow human failings I make it possible to kill others in my name and fail in my basic moral existence.
I plotted the death of my rapist for years. I chose not to. I chose forgiveness for my sake, but do not dismiss the harm done to me.
I do not allow those who vote to harm me to have access to me.
I'm not ruining my relationships over politics. MAGA is.
Build a community and have a future to live share with it.
I'll catch you on the other side.
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Pandemic, long covid... So it goes.
It will not be long now until 🇺🇸 women go to the 🏧 to discover access to their own bank accounts are frozen!
Help with community gardens!Share your skills,useful knowledge,ideas and bounty!
Oh yeah,and organize and peacefully protest and resist those fascist assholes!
It takes sustained peaceful resistance and protests from 3.5% of the people to topple dictatorships!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/01/worried-american-democracy-study-activist-techniques
Rest with the intention to build a machine that fights fascists. So when you see an opportunity you can take it.
Not slay a CEO.
I maintain the stance that nobody deserves to suffer.
I ain't wasting energy on mourning billionaires tho.
Do you have a library in your community, a historical society, a food bank, a public radio station, something that is all about providing service (& could use volunteers)?
That’s where your neighbors are, the ones you want to get to know.
I'd sometimes spend entire play sessions just gathering resources to craft things that low-level and new players need (from ammo to disease cures) and going around the map putting them in the drop-off boxes and caches for new players.
Reminds me of NK Jemisin’s excellent short piece Emergency Skin. Humanity is more likely to cooperate when given a shove in that direction.
Care for community!
Gorbatshevs gift to mankind was that the USSR went down with a whimper.
It seems to me that the US have decided to go down with a bang. And a jump head on into the abyss, shouting out swearwords.
A GOPer will say that people going hungry is a good thing because "some folks could stand to lose a few pounds"
Our household can (barely) afford this shit, IF we don't retire as planned in a few years.
We've worked our whole lives for what they just fucked. They can have a couple tomato seeds and naught else.
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/
I sometimes do a pop up free pantry to clear items near the best used by date. My poverty background gives me food hoarding tendencies.
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They suck. What do you do next?
Don't waste your energy. Gather it up and seek out opportunities to spend it well.
I don't believe that anything is going to bring about the justice that karma offers unless we, humans, bring it.
You make the world just in the ways you can. Good luck to you.
#ResistProject2025
#ResistTrump
#ResistPutin
#ResistDarkMoney
#ResistElonMusk
#EndCitizensUnited
#EndDarkMoneyInPolitics
#DarkMoneyOwnsGOP
#DarkMoneyOwnsTrump
#ElonMuskOwnsTrump
#OligarchsOwnTrump
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
#NoOneIsAboveTheConstitution
#StandUpForAmericanDemocracy
#March
It's going to be hard for a few years, and we must all unite and defeat Trump and his corrupt billionaires buddies
Hold congress accountable
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349800/pirate-care/
People in neighborhoods can work together and grow some food to reduce costs. Plus fresh veggies to eat!
Growing food together gives you a lot of time to talk 👍