I know a lot of people who are having trouble handling the way things are going. The left has engaged in sustained, random, low-intensity violence on a national level. People feel they need to prepare, but they can't retaliate, and that constant edgy readiness is already wearing people down while the left continues to randomly burn and loot with impunity.
Do people have some ideas on how to handle that constant background noise without getting worn down and losing before the fight even begins? I've been able to compartmentalize and just wait to do the job that's in front of me, but not everyone can do that.
100 pushups
100 sit-ups
100 squats
10 km run
i might have to drop a few '0s' hahaha
Something is better than nothing.
Gotta start somewhere. Start with 1 and keep adding.
keep that up for too long and you'll go bald.
Right Wing Death Squads.
That or hiking.
Yeah, hikings cool, too.
If the current goings on is in fact massive election fraud, the country is over. It's one party rule from here on out if Biden wins. 2022 you'll see every Republican except some of the ones who've sold out be replaced in the House and Senate.
It's win here or die
Listening to my mom and brother over the last few years makes me almost prefer the bullet. The sad thing is, even if he loses I know it won't stop. Everything bad that will happen will still be blamed on him because of completely unrelated actions he performed in office. Hell, look at how much GG is till getting blamed for dumb shit.
Try not to let the demoralization take root. Spend time with activities and people you love. If your activities get corrupted, find new ones. If your loved ones forget how to love, find new ones.
The major attack vector is demoralization. They don't want to build or create anything, they just want to make others as miserable and empty as them. So of course it won't stop even if they win, because their victory is framed around bringing down their neighbors, something that will never produce more than a fleeting moment of sadistic glee, followed by a righteous bitterness that somewhere someone is having a nice day.
Not to suggest ignoring problems, though. But you have to come to terms with what is inside and outside of your power as an individual - and you're the one that decides those limits.
Take two with you, and you have my blessing.
Move.
No, seriously, move.
As I see it, there is fundamentally no difference between the riots and looting you see today, and life as usual in a top 25 major metro area. You're seeing all the same shit, it's just condensed. Instead of a year of shoplifting, a couple nights of looting. Instead of years of capital flight and urban blight, a few nights of arson.
The only thing that's changed is the speed at which its occurring.
Leave.
Let them ruin the major metros.
We're moving. Out of Seattle. To another state.
This place will not be coming back to normal America in the foreseeable future, look at the people they keep electing over and over again.
This leadership has seen transgendered strippers at official gatherings, taught required racist policies to its employees, hired a $150,000 a year convicted pimp to keep the streets safe, let homeless overtake the sidewalks and the parks, and put much of downtown just right down the shitter out of business. Oh, not to mention the catastrophe that is Seattle's shrinking police force. I was down there today, oy.
They are turning this city into a dumping place of lowlifes looking for a handout. It's pathetic. I tell you the next 10 years are not going to be kind to Seattle. This is a great time to leave.
Even putting aside Seattle, the state just re-elected the guy who kept the whole state largely shut down since March. And the guy who had the "audacity" to run against him just got laid off after his city decided to defund their police department.
The West Coast is done. And it's sad because I've spent my entire life there.
We both seem to agree completely :) I mean I honestly don't see how the west coast comes back from this to the founding principles of individual civil liberties, I don't see it happening.
I've lived in several post soviet countries, and they will all tell you that this very same shit is what got them there. It's coming.
We're escaping to Montana for Thanksgiving. So hoping that things are better there.
Best of luck. Montana just legalized pot, so I worry about their long-term future with regard to inter-state immigration trends. Hopefully you can stem the tide of Californians now considering the state "in play".
I can tell you that housing is tight, and not cheap.
But my god I'm so tired of looking at people in masks and I can't tell who they are and I can't understand what they're saying; and the plight of the children just makes me cry. It's fucking terrible. I have to get out.
I sympathize. I have local places I go to where people don't care about masks, but they're few and far between. And I make sure they're rewarded. The place I go to when I truly want to feel normal is a brewery in Coeur d'Alene. No one -- not even the staff -- wears masks there. Went there once in July and again in October, and both times it was the most normal I've felt since the Before Time.
Rock on, the local speakeasy. Noice
But here the comrades love the rules and obey the great poohbahs of truth leadership. My son thinks it's like a cult.
Build the wall in your neighbourhood.
Expel violent, unreasonable leftists from society.
I was a libertarian for a long time until I realized that laws can serve a secondary purpose of gatekeeping. I don't care if someone smokes pot, but states where it isn't legal should make it a capital offense if it can keep their state from turning Blue.
This is the flawed thinking that produced the problem in the first place. It was the criminalization that fueled the incarcerations that lead to a poor, fatherless underclass that votes blue blindly enough to keep the dems competitive.
I would say it's only going to get worse, much worse.
My suggestion is to move to some city of a decent size where this is not happening, make it grow as anti-globalist stronghold.
I dunno that you need to leave Washington.
Washington state is, on the whole, not terrible. Having no personal income tax sounds pretty good.
I mean, just looking around on google maps, Quincy looks nice, not that far from Wenatchee.
Out here in Iowa if you're within 40 miles of a Wal-Mart that's considered cosmopolitan (and you get used to the fact that, in a sense, it really is).
You might want to re-assess your definitions of "property rights" and "civil liberties" in the state of Washington. Because you don't have any.
Elaborate. My understanding is Washington caselaw is stand your ground.
I think you've just spent too much time in Snohomish and King counties.
I 'owned' a house w/barn + garage on 10 acres outside of Spokane, when the county Planning and Zoning board rezoned my land as they are allowed under state law, because Washington instituted a development Master Plan which zones every square inch of this state. (much like agenda 21-30). It is state law they can do this.
Guess what happened after they rezoned my property? It could be used for almost nothing, zoned fucking urban reserve and they naturally boosted the taxes, capiche? No guns necessary. /I sold the place.
People need to pay more attention to property laws, and how many entities really have control of them.
Yes, and?
You strike me as a person who wants to benefit from the tax advantages of being rural while being as close as possible to the metro and then complaining about encroachment.
There's a word for that: hypocrite.
I came to Washington from Texas, they do NOT have statewide zoning. I didn't know what I was in for, that was early 2000's, Washington was an early implemetor of Agenda 2021
I don't think you understand how destructive of individual property rights zoning can be. When zoning becomes law, you will do what they let you do with your property.
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If you want to talk about zoning here's another example of zoning madness - every commercial business all over America is required by local zoning laws to provide so many square feet of parking per square foot of commercial space.
That's why we have mattress stores with 2 acres of paved parking. Look at the terrible proliferation of parking lots and parking acreage and parking garages, miles of vacant paved parking because of zoning laws.
There is a book called Technocracy Rising which describes regulatory capture, no guns needed.
"Joo want to live in the country outside of a city, and you have the audacity to expect your land not to be swallowed up by runaway urban tax expansion? What a hypocrite!"
You're fucking retarded.
He's already there.
Be in control of your own environment. This means online and in real life. If you are letting an algorithm dictate what you see, you need to have alternative sources for the same kind of content. Always have a backup of what you do not want to lose. Music, videos, games, etc.
Hahaha command prompt go ..\youtube-dl.exe -x -v --audio-quality 0 [URL]
Debian repo is still up. IIRC there's a nice Arch repo as well.
Many imposters, many backups, all on Github
Get outside and move around a bit. I was never even close to an athletic person and sat around inside too much as a kid. Older me loves to just go for a walk, hike, bike ride etc. I don't think I've ever felt bad coming in from even just a short 20min walk even if it's cold and rainy (or where I am more likely hot as hell). It's a mental reset for me.
Another thing is try to find some things to get your brain going. For me that can be anything from working extra hard on second language skills (trying to learn to read Japanese) to coding something that I'll probably never finish anyway to playing a more mental or creative video game like a Sim City, Tropico, Civ V, etc. Just anything to get your brain working. Not something political or media based. The point is to clear your head of this stuff not make it worse.
What helped me is download older movies, books and games, I have a pre-2014 rule. Keep healthy and work out, although I'm failing a bit in that department. Disconnect from online as much as possible.
get a boxing bag and attack it every knight... remember to stretch first
Move out of big cities if you can. Take care of yourself: eat well and do sports. Take a couple of days off from the Internet every once in a while.
Physical activity is probably the easiest and most effective. Jogging and cycling is something you can do everywhere. Well, not in big cities but again, those suck ass. Just don't overdo it you're just starting.
Wherever you go, find friends. If you are the sole person with your particular politics or values in your immediate neighborhood, move.
My state may be crazy, but the thing that keeps me sane is knowing that the people to my left and to my right are people I can trust and that trust me.
In Russia it's known as 'kitchen table culture.' That's where the real people are.
You can stop anarcho-tyranny by removing leftist governors, mayors, cops, judges and media. Rich enviroment for activism.
If you can live on spite that is. It's what leftists do.
Also live in a red state where self-defence is real and not purely for fake security guards.
There is only one thing to do: slowly start to show people that the MSM is lying, in these 4 years a lot was done, Trump achieved millions of votes more despite the pandemic.
They had to cheat in plain sight to win.
The next 4 years may be a disaster for the Democrat and 2024 could really be the last chance to save America and the West (This is a positive forecast, it may be too late already)
Ahh, any person doing this needs to try to find a better way. I spent years in that state in my youth, and I promise you it will fuck you up long-term. I don't want anyone to go through what I did, not even my worst enemies.
The best solution I came up with (after it was too late) was to muster enough vigilance and conviction to be willing to flip the humanity switch and make a sharp gear shift. It's comfortable and civil to slowly shift gears, but you can't just ride that edge. I don't even care if you turn into an edgy shitter out of a misinterpretation, just don't ride the edge for years.