So I was talking with a complete normie relative who works in civil service (lots of contacts) … I was just feeling them out a little bit about ‘what the word on the street is’ regarding the upcoming election. She said most people she knows is likely voting Carney; apparently, the NPC’s think that Carney is more capable of handling Trump … especially after Trump trash talked Poilievre and Trump and Carney had a good meeting (you’d think the logic would go the other way, but oh well). She also referenced the polls pointing toward Carney, which seems to increase her confidence that he is the right choice. Apparently, people are also worried that Poilievre will end up ‘gutting social programs’ (ending the grift scams) like in the US.
I try to pride myself on being stoic and stuff, but I’m really stressed about Carney getting in. If anyone has any white pills, I’ll take whatever you’ve got.
Sgt. GoosenipWell, if you've been taking FCW advice and others advice, you're insulating yourself against the collapse. There will be destruction as things collapse, but being able to feed yourself will help. If you have any kind of self defense (Not just saying guns) hone it. Martial arts will help, ability to improvise will help, and an ability to pull those you love behind you to shield as you slow backwalk retreat will help. Not all defense is a movie "I must die on this hill to save my family" You arn't a marine with fellow marines where "If one of us is alive on this hill of dead people we win" you have to think about yourself and family in that aspect.
For those that don't think it's coming, you have gentle them into it. Continue to try soft redpill them but prep.
So many people go 'prep' has to be "Nuclear death everyone for themselves resident evil wasteland" kinda shit. It's not.
Being prepared is having water stored, and an ability to get water should "that worst" happen. This doesn't mean you go full survivor mode on it. Make sure you have some stashed and a way to get more sure, but don't go urban/rural hunting like it's already world war z.
Same with food. Get yourself even partially self sufficient on food. You can grow food in pails or feeder boxes even in an apartment window-sill. This doesn't mean you completly rely on it. It means you set yourself up as a 'last ditch I can do this" kind of thing. You want to grow yes, (it's healthier and easier than you realize) but not a "hunker down I have to do this no matter what", kind of moment.
You can grow -some- potatos or carrots or root veggies in a few 10L pails. This doesn't mean fill your place with pails of food to 'prep'. .The prep is to get set for at an absolute extreme to do something like that.
What you want to do is try offset your current lifestyle so you arn't reliant on a grocery store. This doesn't mean go to the extreme survival end. This means try set your yard or house or apartment up (and utilize it) that you can get some benefit out of it.
Look into vertical hydroponics for smaller things, yes it's kinda a last ditch seeming thing but you put some climbers in it and place it by a window on your apartment and now you've got constant growth. Yes it won't feed you completely, but should the worst happen, you have the knowledge now to scale that up to do it, and do it more efficiently than relying on more expensive things.
Survivalism is learning about old school techniques yes, but it doesn't mean you can't adapt those techniques to utilize current technology. Trying to just stone age this out won't work, utilize what you can and grow from there.
This applies to EVERYTHING you do as a survivalist. You essentially become a scavenger in a lot of aspects, but you utilize that into something productive and use that productivity to shotgun ahead. You don't use it as a fallback, you use it as a launchpad.
You are already primed because of that mind set to utilize things to your advantage and go from there. You don't do a squirrel hoard (you do prep stock yes but not to an extreme) and run with it off that. Refine your techniques and create a 'squirrels stockpile' to fall back on while you figure shit out.
So many people think it's just "Stockpile as much as I can and hold out" when survivability has almost nothing to do with that. You would be better served with USMC "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome" more than "Hoard and Defend"
Obviosly defense is key, but if you can't produce, you have nothing to defend.
Water is same thing, even defense is same thing. It's just "Good sense" to know these things.
Hell, do you know how to fix a hole in a blanket? Can you sew?
If you can sew a blanket hole or a hole in a sock, you can sew a gaping bleeding wound.
If you can grow food in your domicile you have a leg up on others trying to stockpile food. If you can defend that food you have another leg up. If you can sew you have medical knowledge and survivability on your cloth products, if you can boil water you can create a myriad of use, if you can sharpen a knife you now have the ability to keep your fingers safe, you scan scale that up to an axe or saw and now you have firewood or a log house should the shit really hit the fan, you are multitasking, you are learning skills.
Can you create fire out of wet wood? Do you know your surroundings enough to create that fire in the middle of winter? (That's a bit more advanced but valid should you end up in a ditch upside down in your car, can you survive with heat until rescue arrives? That applies to survivalism)
THAT is survivalism.
Can you use a wheststone to sharpen a knife? This doesn't apply to a hunting bowie knife, this applies to knives chopping vegetables so you don't cut your fingers off. Why pay someone $20 to sharpen a knife when all it takes is a couple bucks and a youtube video to learn how to sharpen ALL your knives in about 3 minutes..... this is survivalism. It's being self sufficient.
Can you utilize your surroundings to your advantage if left alone for a few days so search and rescue can find you in a catastrophic incident? Those skills will aid you in a 'doomsday' The people you read about who survived in the wilderness for X days had these skills to some degree, and it let them stay alive and be rescued. Would you not want even a basic understanding of how they did that? Are you not curious on it?
It doesn't take doomsday to do this, just a willingness to learn.
Look for ways to apply knowledge you learn to your every day life and adapt to changing circumstances, THAT, is what survivalism is, not some hunkering down in a bunker with 892483 days of rations and then emerging with 8392432 guns and hoping you're the last man standing like some fucking hero in a movie.
