The pending southwestern, coastal southern, and coastal northeastern migration waves are all big spooks. Getting ahead of that curve, even in the smallest way with residency and some kind of minor land ownership before the value bubbles, seems like the best decision I can make.

With the kidnapping, even if they were handed the plan they were radicalised enough to commit to it. The thing that really concerns me is how readily the militias downplayed the reality of the event while simultaneously endorsing everything about it and fetishising it. It was very similar to Kyle Rittenhouse. Regardless of the circumstances, although they're much more indicting in his case, it was turned into an act of martyrdom for a group of people who worship hero narratives. Everyone accepted the standard he set as readily as incels accepted Elliott Rodgers or Nazis did Dylan Roof. If their local extremists are willing to commit to something so comically extreme, when local conditions deteriorate they're already prepared to endorse. If given the opportunity as they were in Oregon with the wildfires, it takes groups like that all of half an hour to coalesce into a death squad.