whatever happens in the coming days and weeks and months, we collectively have the skills and strength to deal with it.
we just have to take care of one another.
even if society collapses, we have to remember that it wasnt the economic or governmental systems that fed us, but people. its people who grow food, who build shelter, and who organize to distribute resources.
“It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins....
“We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.” -durruti

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17 Sep
We're all preppers now. Whether we want to be or not. It's hard to think about, but we're just in the opening credits to the apocalypse movie. This is the calm before the storm. This is your moment to get ready. We can get through this. A thread.
Remember: most people survive the collapse of their way of life, most of the time. The end of the world isn't always, or even usually, the uh... end of the world.
Prepping is community-focused or it's nonsensical. Talking to your neighbor is more important than building a bunker. Buying two good-enough of whatever you need and giving one to a friend is a better use of your money than buying the really nice thing that costs 2x as much.
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13 Aug
i was so into the guillotine because i thought we were all on the same page that the guillotine is obviously fucked up and the wrong way to solve social problems, as evidenced by, you know, the history of the guillotine

narrator voice: we were not all on the same page
like i love the guillotine as a symbol because it's a symbol of revolutionary violence that carries within it the necessary critique of revolutionary violence that we need to be VERY aware of whenever we talk about revolution.

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"after the revolution" no one is against the fucking wall because the idea of putting people up against the wall and shooting them is part of what we're having a revolution against.
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7 Aug
I'm watching people in portland struggle to get gas masks in any kind of hurry. anywhere you are, might want to get one now as revolt and repression continue to spread. A brief thread about what i've learned through research.
you need to protect both your eyes and your lungs. You can do this with either a full-face respirator (a "gas mask") or a half-mask respirator paired with goggles. Full-face gas masks usually either come in military styles (usually using a standard 40mm NATO thread) or civilian.
If you've got the money for it, get a new, ballistic-rated military style gas mask. The MIRA CM-6M ($220) or CM-7M ($240) are highly recommended by folks I know. These cover all your bases. You still need a filter. Expired-but-unopened SHOULD work for tear gas and pepperspray.
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11 Jul
its not that USians are inherently dumber than the rest of the world its that the fucking federal government didnt cancel rent and pay people to stay home. that we are being offered up as sacrifice on the altar of capitalism is the problem.
its that we have a deeply influential system of right wing propaganda that encourages people to ignore the virus. i’m all for personal responsibility but we need to blame the top, not the bottom, of this social problem.
think of it like a fantasy movie, where yes you gotta protect yourself from the minions to be sure but the goal is to destroy the head vampire or whatever is causing the curse.
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29 Jun
if you are marginalized by this society or care about people who are, and are in a place with your mental health where you can do so, buy a gun and train with it.

i don’t say this lightly. i have wildly mixed feelings about firearms. a thread.
firearms are a tool that have far fewer pratical applications than their proponents (of all politics) tend to believe.

firearms complicate interpersonal relations and make power over each other far too easy to take. firearms will never bring us to a just and free world.
but we can’t build a just and free world if we are dead.

these people want us dead.

learning to defend yourself and your community is worth doing, and semiautomatic weapons like the pistols and rifles available to US civilians are effective tools for that.
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10 Jun
science fiction recommendations of stories that describe societies without police, a thread (open to recommendations!). Largely these are anarchist societies because anarchism is my personal focus and it's an ideology that has long focused on antipolice and antiprison work.
but it needs to be said that indigenous practices from around the world have a lot more to teach us about society without police or prisons (science fiction author @WalidahImarisha for example gets at this in her nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces) than any fiction does
To start, of course: The Dispossessed, by Ursula k le Guin is a novel that explores an anarchist society and the tensions within it about social control and pressure.
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