A great read, thank you.

This exemplifies why it's so important to learn how to grow your own food. If you're serious about "prepping" don't hoard tins of beans, learn how to grow beans.

Make your soil fertile now, learn the skills now, because it can take 3 years for a piece of land to become fertile enough to provide good harvests. It takes time to learn what you're doing. It takes time to get equipment, seeds, compost.

A network of small vegetable gardens can go a long way in helping reduce starvation.

Is it a silver bullet that guarantees survival? Of course not. Your crops can fail, your garden sabotaged, damaged, or robbed. But does it increase your, and your community's chances? Absolutely!

Start small, have fun, learn, and grow!

https://beehaw.org/c/greenspace

https://lemmy.world/c/gardening

Powerful account

I'm in Sweden. War is almost unthinkable. I have prepared my basement with shelf-stable food and fuel that could feed my apartment complex for a month. If something happens, it's for my neighbors, not just for my family.

But a month is nothing.

The only reason I'm prepping is for the eventuality that others may need help.

This is why I want to start a community garden in the gated community where I live, just in case.

I had an old buddy who served in Vietnam. One time I asked him what it was like to kill someone. I'll never forget his answer.

"You know, when you've got your rifle trained on somebody, there for a split second you've got the power of God in your hands. You get to decide if that person lives or dies. Nobody should have that kind of power. I only wish I had known that before I had done things that I couldn't undo."

He said he still had nightmares all the time, even 45 years later.

Same. Powerful, though.

I'm from the area. I got like 5min into the game on launch, and had to put it down, as it literally hit way too close to home. Someday, I would love to revisit it.

Terror is a part of large scale wars (wars that aren't a few little skirmishes), so civilian population gets bombed (bcs terror is effective, it damages morale & puts pressure on politics to surrender & end fighting). USA is no stranger to that.

I could've ended if they hadn't given so many concessions to the slavers, but they let that shit fester and grow and now the whole country is the fucking nazi bar.

The problem with this idea is that it assumes that those areas are politically aligned. I highly doubt people in liberal areas like Austin are going to be okay with being lumped in with whatever happens in Texas and I am confident that the Native Americans in Oklahoma will never be okay with it.

The divide in the US is largely rural vs urban not north vs south or east vs west anymore.

its called balkanization. pretty much, the northwest coast will be its own constituition, probably combine or allie with some of the east coast states. its very similar to how CNC3 game lore ended up.

Cyberpunk 2020 (the original tabletop game) kinda predicted that sort of outcome.

You should really post this on its own. I think people in the USA would benefit from seeing and internalizing this principle.

Yes!

I was just talking to my wife about, if not this idea, then the ramifications of splitting. We were discussing how someone like Putin can stay in power, or how I think it would be touchy to have joint protests against Trump in the U.S., even as his support falters across the board – because I couldn’t imagine republicans with morals, disaffected MAGA, democrats, and leftists on the same side of a picket line.

i find the No Kings protests offputting primarily for their rejection of "Do Not Split". people around me attend them and i'm glad to see those people engaging in things, but they go on to say things like "at one point a group of 4 people in black bloc (one with a "medic" patch) tried to join the march but we walled them off".

previous large scale protests i've been a part of had a natural flow to them: signs and chanting during the day, then as people start to head home it gets rowdier & some time well after dark it turns physical; repeat the next day.

i'm a daytime protestor. but i never felt like my protests were being "taken over", or that those different groups were fighting for something incompatible with my own aims. there was space enough for me to find a place i was comfortable, and likewise for anyone with different tactics. you can't have a "mass" movement without having space for all those different masses.

The other hand of the issue is the Democrats have repeatedly failed to recognize and manage the necessary decline of capitalism. It's "necessary" because capitalism had globalized and essentially run out of land and people too exploit.

Exploited countries will push (are pushing) back, and/or look for other options (China, etc). Because the Democratic party is a pro-capitalism party, they are unable to recognize this situation. Republicans recognize it and turn up the heat, both internally and externally. For a lot of (foolish) Americans, this looks like an appealing option.

The democrats could sweep 2028, but it means the snapback is going to be even more intense in 2032 when they fail to govern.

of course not, you gotta eat a first aid kit

Whilst I agree, the problem lies with the individualism of the general population rather than the collective mindset. The backwards-ass government system (i.e. no opposition government, the bastardisation of the 3 branches etc. and the power hungry head-of-state vs a Parliamentary system for example), the extreme "state-first" mentality that then struggles when the Federal system comes down on it and the "divide and conquer" tactics of corporations with the support of successive right-leaning governments. A judicial system that corrupted by politics and trying to guess what a bunch of guys slave-owning white landowners 250 years ago would have thought is also very very very very very very very dumb. The law is meant to be blind - it's why the statue used to represent it wears a blindfold, holds a scale and a sword.

The country is in need of a Civil Revolution rather than a civil war. Both sides are more similar than they realise, and generally want the same thing, and none seem to see the real enemy (CEOs, Billionaires etc.) due to all the propaganda.

The problem is that the steps between zero and a hundred are incremental rights which take decades to establish. If you are a non-American then you might have those steps already established, but currently the US does not. So once the status quo passes beyond the acceptable parameters the only possible solution is violence.

Another user I spoke with asked about collective rebellion, union strikes, and general resistance, but these don't work if the infrastructure isn't already in place. You can't start a strike if you don't have a union and your co-workers don't agree, you can't take up arms without at least a state level rebellion, most protests are effectively meaningless, and unless you are willing to give up everything (job, family, and well being) then you'll never amount a significant resistance.

For the most part people want to live their lives with the least amount of fucking up they can. So long as the republican's don't fuck up their shit too much they will keep their heads down and vote in the elections.

Democrats and states both follow the same rules. They will try to counter the Republicans, but if that means a government shutdown with old people and the poor going without assistance then they are willing to cave. So far we aren't at the point where any US group is willing to make real sacrifice to make a change, such as a fighting, going without, or causing their family to suffer.

Americans can not comprehend a gunless solution without pizza in the end

You're absolutely right. Generations jave been indoctrinated to give up autonomy and control to the system. People have been socially and economically backed into a corner where they don't feel like they can make any real change in their lives.

They know transcending class barriers is impossible (though they lie to themselves about it) and they don't really believe that politics make a difference. People don't vote. They scrabble at shit jobs and go into debt to feel richer.

Violence is the one form of power they're truly clinging to. A gun is a surrogate for control. It's power you can exert in your narrow sphere.

Most of this perception is wrong, but it's a part of the culture. The idea that the only way this can get fixed is violent civil war is a game of chicken with the ruling class and they're betting that people won't actually rise up.

You're totally right. A war is the last avenue to take. But you also are here on Lemmy, so you must see the constant calls for US Americans to take up arms against one another, despite the fact that avenues remain.

Shit sucks here. Shit will suck a lot more if there's a war. And it will suck here and everywhere else. A lot more.

You have barely tried non violent resistance (not the same as peaceful!) but you’re such a violent culture that you jump straight to military solutions.

Most Americans are victims of a violent regime and not violent themselves. They're scared and going through something most Canadians and many post-WWII Europeans will never have to deal with in their lifetimes. People are being murdered, and you're telling the victims it's their fault and that they're violent for trying to prepare for a worst-case scenario.

Yes, of course there are other ways to confront this. Yes, I wish the country I was regrettably born in was culturally more like the EU and Canada. But it's not that simple and I can't help but feel that this comment is in poor taste.

Every single leftist could have resisted a lot of this using the internet to spread a message.

What's the whistle for? I think I may be out of the loop on this.

Everyone needs a rooftop Korean.

remember all those attacks during and right after covid, it was against chinese/asians, and the news pratically stopped talking about it the next day. a white person , dare i say an AA person you would have news weeks on end about them.

Renee Good was her name. Not Nicole. Sucks that attention was only given after a white LGBT woman was killed. Still sucks even more that she was killed. I am haunted by the pictures of her glove box. It was filled with stuffed animals for her child.

Corporations became the dominate force in our culture and in every culture around the world. 90% + of all policy in the whole world is written by corporations. There isn't a country that exist without widening income inequality.

It would be great if this was just an American problem. It isn't. The wealthy will use their favorite proxy the corporation to run humanity into the ground. They have already poisoned the entire planet time and time again. They are the biggest threat humanity has ever seen.

They make the Nazi look wholesome. Remember it was IBM that developed the numbering system for Jews and also helped figure out how many Jews needed to be cleared out of the Ghetto daily for the final solution. Likewise MS, Google, Meta, etc. have been giving material support to genocide.

For me it was the blunt justification of horrific indiscriminate killing of children with sniper rifle, tens of gun shots, and dropping bomb dirctlt on school and hospital. Seeing how the media did everything to cover it up, politician working overtime to censor protest, and Democrat , and Republican presidents shipping an absurd amount of tax money directly to fund the genociders what made it clear that the US corporations, and government will kill anything in their way to ensure US and other nations are slave.

The only way around this is to wait until US invade another Nato or EU country and for these country to withdraw rich people ability to leave the US. Then a revolution might be successful.

Honest question: were the other events filmed like Rene's killing was? My hypothesis is that's it's more about the available footage of the incident than the victim's demographics... But the USA is racist as fuck so I could be wrong.

you could say they were either build up or outshined by Nicole shooting. plus she was protesting ice for deporting people to labor camps. its not "this one thing did it" its gradual

There’s simply too much centralized power there. You need something more of a union of independent states with very limited “federal” power, much like the EU. Sure, there will never be a clean consensus on anything, but at least there’s no chance a single grifter can seize so much power to wield that they can basically just do whatever to whoever within the federation and beyond.

https://www.generalstrikeus.com/ forget initiating bloodshed, sign a strike card. In a world of paramilitary forces and drone capabilities, this is our true power.

Doubtful, the average American doesn't have the cardio to walk that long. It would be a bunch of cars honking while the driver watches football on the phone and eats cheeseburgers.