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I don't disagree with any of this. If you have the time, energy and money to become an anti-survivalist-survivalist.

For the rest of you, who work 7 days a week and have never handled a firearm and have no money, you can also do some very important things for your potential future safety, especially if you belong to a marginalized group or ethnicity that could attract unwanted attention.

• Socialize. It's finally time to start exercising some social skills... that shit you've read a thousand times and have said "when the time is right, I'll start meeting people and getting better at talking." That time is now. If fatass grown men can spend every weekend crawling through mud to prove themselves "alpha males" you can start saying hi to your neighbor. You can start offering your coworkers to go hang out after work for coffee or drinks. You can offer to walk the dog of that person who lives on your floor.

• To continue on the above point: community is survival. Nobody really thinks every leftist or liberal American is going to be able to run out to the woods and start living off berries. If it gets that bad, it's all over. But what you CAN do, is what people are already doing to ward off ICE and other federal agents- you can form communities who help each other and look out for each other. We survived hundreds of thousands of years this way, we will survive this with the same trick.

• Put away food and water. I know it's hard when you're already scrounging to survive, but don't get ahead of yourself, don't overdo it. Don't prepare for nuclear war, prepare for days or even weeks of service interruptions if bands of militias start doing shit like shooting power substations (again) you might end up without access to anything. Try to aim for putting away enough food and water to get through a weekend, then a week. When you shop, just get ONE extra canned good and add it to the box or cupboard. You also want plastic bags and tarps, for waste and for rain collecting and for shelter if you end up out of your house.

• Make realistic plans according to your own unique situation. Have friends and family you know you can go to if you're alone, or make sure your friends and family know they can come to you. Again, community defeats all enemies. Have a route planned so you know where to go if you don't have cel-service or if your phone has been taken, have some physical maps. Have an idea who to contact if you don't have your own vehicle.

• Know how to turn on your phone camera with one hand, without looking. Most phones now have hotkeys or other ways to do this quickly. Know where your breaker box is. Know where your building's water shutoff valve is and how to operate it. Know where your back alley leads. Know what your neighborhood looks like from above and when you take walks, run through the map in your head if you have to get somewhere public fast.

• If you're thinking about arming up, but really intimidated, just get a .38 revolver or something anyone can operate even if it's dark and you've never handled a weapon. They're cheap, reliable and easy to conceal. Just familiarize yourself with the laws in your area. A step up from that is a shotgun. Generally, people tend to leave you alone if you rack a shotgun. At the very least, you MUST have pepper spray or a taser and you need to be very comfortable with using it in a split second.

• Get a prepaid, simple, cheap-ass burner phone and keep it with your survival gear. We have no idea what kind of changes may come to the country, if it gets really bad, the surveillance state may support some groups of extremists and you may not be able to rely on your current phone.

• Take some self-defense classes. It really doesn't matter your body type or physical capability, in fact the less assuming you are, the greater your chances of being able to catch someone off guard and smack them in the nose and claw their eyes so they release you long enough for you to get away or pull out that revolver or pepper spray.