POC agropastoralist.
about 30% of whites are seethingly hateful of POCs, and another 30% will become so after the resources get scarce (yes, people become MUCH MORE RACIST when resources become scarce): https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/10/economic-scarcity-shifts-perception-leads-discrimination
so as a Collapse-conscious POC, your VERY FIRST order of business, before literally anything fucking else is the following:
"How do I create a majority POC rural space?"
The cities don't work because they are overpopulated.
Normal rural areas don't work because they're 95% White, and you'll be Holocaust'd within 5 seconds of the food supply lines vanishing.So your very first concern is simply finding other POCs who are even aware of this issue.
reddit is 85% white, and the rest are mostly propagandized POCs who don't understand the scale of racism that they are already faceing, much less the scale of racism that they will face in the future.
oh and r/collapse seems even whiter than the rest of reddit. So the major issue right now is just getting other POCs to realize reality. PM me if this interests you.
By the far the most reasonable and productive answer here. Pretty sure some trans folks in this corner of the internet have been discussing something similar and I follow a black trans woman on TikTok who spends her time building up and off-the-grid homestead
Sounds based, mind linking her tiktok?
Trans people have similar problems, Trans POC doubly so.
Sorry, I was mixing up two tiktokers. The homesteader isn’t trans. She’s @zora_theexplora
reddit is 85% white, and the rest are mostly propagandized POCs who don’t understand the scale of racism that they are already faceing, much less the scale of racism that they will face in the future.
this is honestly the hardest part. If people weren’t complacent in being divided, what you’re proposing would be so much easier. If you take a look at places like /r/blackpeopletwitter some of the delusion is unbelievable.
If you take a look at places like /r/blackpeopletwitter some of the delusion is unbelievable.
black people twitter isn't even black lol. I haven't been on that sub in years, I always saw the pattern of: actually aware post --> white reddit seethe --> country club thread --> locked thread
But yes, the fact that POC are so seemingly complacent in remaining divided and engaging in petty squabbles is a huge problem whose importance cannot be overstated.
Gotta finish some of the work that John Brown started.
-edit- And also Stokely Carmichael.
other: somewhere between Katrina and 2008 I figured out the big picture and with a little luck and a small unexpected inheritance from a dead relative in 2010 I started living in a shack on a barren windswept prairie in montana and have been working on adapting food crops to extreme/marginal conditions
You need like a husband or a dude to cook for you or some shit? I got a shotgun and am good at giving head (to either sex)
Someday. Wish it was sooner. I wish I could take my mom and cat and just up and leave.
I've tried learning Chinese on and off, but god damn is it hard, and I don't have any Chinese speaking friends to help me.
It feels almost pointless anyway given how strict China is on immigration and citizenship. Don't see why they would take my unskilled imperialist-born ass.
I have to admit, "You're using your depression about the literal end of the world to feel superior." is a form of mental illness denial I hadn't seen yet. :cringe:
Personally I don't see much point in prepping for my own survival. I don't think I want to be alive when things start getting really bad, so mostly I've gone down the hedonism route with drugs and just generally focusing on my hobbies.
Generally I don't read much about any of this collapse stuff unless I happen to come across it, so that helps in staying grill pilled. But every once in a while I can't help but think about just how many people are going to die and that makes me feel sick.
I feel so extremely bad for not doing any organizing right now while we still have some time, but I think the state my mental health is in would make me a liability if I tried to do that right now. It's something I'm working toward, and I hope I'll be able to help eventually.
Just steal the recipe from the (insert major American brewer) factory
Do we have an emote for deliberately bad jokes?
Should add this if we don't: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/036/011/cover8.jpg
Just steal the recipe from the (insert major American brewer) factory
100 percent true lol
I've got about two years worth of food stocked, a few thousand rounds of ammo, all the meds I can get my hands on and a 28 terabyte NAS full of movies, music, books, games ect. But most importantly I have a huge garden and greenhouse, tons of fruit trees and access to fresh water with no one up stream of me. The only thing I don't really have is power security, I do have a generator hooked up to a thousand gallon tank but I really need some solar. I also have a few friends who plan to use my place as their bug out location so with any luck I'll have a community too.
Reminder: the next antifa meeting is at Ithorian's house
That sounds like a good setup, this is my goal once I can find a decent place. How long have you been working on that?
Started seriously planning it about 10 years ago. Took a while to find the right place but about 6 years ago I bought the property from a couple of other prepers who had been setting the place up for about 15 years. Since then its been a ton of learning on how to be self sufficient.
On the subject, does any one know a good way to source meds? Right now basically all I have is getting animal antibiotics but no real access to anything else.
do you have enough running water for micro hydro power generation? a lil pelton wheel maybe?
During the spring with the rains and snow melt the stream runs fast and few feet deep but the rest of the year it's only about a foot deep so I doubt I could do much more then run a few lights off it most of the time.
True but last i looked into it hydro even on a small scale is fairly expensive to set up the money would probably be spent on even more food security or just saved till I can afford the solar.
Right? SMDH my dick head, not even planning to trade for lentils
Other: Poverty has me locked into a scenario that all I can do is put my head between my knees and pray.
If I ever manage to start an intentional community I’ll message you, comrade
Drugs, sex, hobbies, and going to uni for what I hope will be a useful to the community profession even while conditions degrade.
If/when conditions get to a point where I can no longer reliably source testosterone, I'm prepared to end it. Were I in a better body, I'd stick it out and help my community in any way I could, but I simply don't have it in me to watch and experience the sheer nightmare and unadulterated hell of my body reverting back to its AGAB.
Good luck to everyone who has to eek out existence in 4°C+ world.
Trans hedonism gang :hexbear-trans:
I've come to the same conclusion regarding HRT too. Even though I have a lot of spare estrogen because I've been terrible at remembering to take it regularly over the years, it will only be enough for a year if I ration it :doomer:
Mentally preparing myself to die in the streets. Nothing cool, probably just another right wing terrorist attack.
I'm not really prepping at all. I figure I'll be in the same boat as most people when/if the collapse comes. My main hope is that it'll be gradual enough that I'll have figured something out by the time it really gets going.
solid attitude. Sudden collapse is a fantasy people have where they can be free of all their responsibilities in one moment imo. The apocalypse will happen like covid-19. it'll affect different people in different ways. more and more will suffer, but plenty will go on acting like everything is fine.
imo the collapse is just gonna be a gradually moving line between the civilized and the terrorists/savages and more and more people will be labeled saveges/terrorists.
Group of us have discussed all moving in together on a family farm that’s been there for years. It’s not glamorous but everything is solid. Group has a good mix of doctors, farmers and engineers each with a minimum of a couple of decades of professional experience and everyone is heavily armed and values not talking about the place.
We’re all old enough that we don’t expect to see the worst, just grow a lot of weed and sit on the porch talking shit together.
I'm doing all of these things and attempting to build a strong network of capable people who can rely on each other and help the greater community in times of crisis.
Impressive. I'm attempting that while instead alienating everyone around me.😅
If your answer does not involve some sort of organizing, you’ve missed the plot tbh
