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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I’m going to keep going to work, brushing my teeth, keeping my apartment clean, working out, visiting my father on the weekends. (serious)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Leaving the country and taking my kids in case plan 2025 starts happening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If nobody paid any attention to him we could just passive aggressively get through the next 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. That worked last time

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Move in with my friend in the Netherlands. He's wanted me to move even if Biden wins.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I say Go Anyway. The Netherlands is awesome.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

I'd like to think I'm not so backed into a corner that violence is the answer, so I'll do what I do every day of the week: keep my head down and wait.

If push comes to shove, and the lives of myself and my people are genuinely threatened, I won't retaliate in kind. I come from a long line of people that knew the benefits of blending in. I may not have the moxy to be a firebrand or to rally others to a cause, I may not have the heart to pull a trigger, but I have the means and skill to make triggers and the good sense to stay away from they places they get used.

It may not be the heroic sense of most Americans, but I was born into an America that sold us an action hero instead of providing us safety and I've never been one to buy rhetoric. I will not give my life for a cause, I will live to see it succeed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So I just barely make it into the classes that do well under trump, but I’m very worried as the social safety net is falling apart for most americans, and that republican rule only speeds that problem. I’m going to be trying to strengthen resources that help people trying to make it to self-sufficiency, but I can’t overcome the typical american attitude of “I’ve failed because I need help.” I guess the best plan for most people is to take care of those around them, be moral and resist bad policy by quiet lack of compliance, and try to help good people get out of bad parts of the country so they collapse all the sooner.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

make it to self-sufficiency

If a traffic accident can bankrupt you, unfortunately you're still at-risk.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

First I'll do whatever I can to be sure my communications and whereabouts aren't trackable, tell my friends how to contact me, and recommend they use the same channels anyway.

Then I'll find protests to go to and local campaigns to support however I see fit, and I'll do that right up to the point where I feel unsafe, at which point I don't know how I procede.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This would essentially require you to not communicate outside of Signal.

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