Lefty Preppers
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Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their better-known rightwing counterparts – as do their methods
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/17/preppers-liberals-climate-collapse
Liberal preppers differ from their rightwing counterparts because the calamities they anticipate have different characteristics. Rightwing bugbears like civil unrest and globalist tyranny lead to a focus on the stockpiling of weapons to defend one’s property and family from hostile adversaries. But concerns about global heating point to different notions of readiness. Climate breakdown – the destabilization of the entire ecological system on which our lives depend – is not a fleeting crisis one can ride out with a well-stocked arsenal and a few pallets from Costco. As Margaret Killjoy, who launched the prominent anarchist-prepper podcast Live Like the World Is Dying at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, put it: “There’s not much preparedness you can do for the end of the world.”
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While Steffen, who considers himself “moderately progressive”, believes it’s only prudent to have a reserve of basic items – water, food, medical supplies and the like – on hand in case of emergencies, his approach to preparedness differs markedly from the version promoted on the right. “I would put to you that if you find yourself in a situation where you’re having to let off some rounds to protect your canned goods, you’ve already failed,” he told our class. “You have not understood the assignment.”
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Woohoo! Thanks for letting me know where to restock!
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Interesting. Thanks, TG.
89th, we'll all be moving to Minnesoooota. Now balmy weather, lots of firewood, water and moose to eat.
@Mik said in Lefty Preppers:
89th, we'll all be moving to Minnesoooota. Now balmy weather, lots of firewood, water and moose to eat.
No joke!
While the main reason we moved here was it's where my wife grew up (her parents are nearby, the schools and parks are great, and I'm certainly not going to be accused of becoming a bandwagon sports fan LOL)... it did cross my mind that this is a relatively safe place from natural disasters and has plenty of fresh water, which will serve my family well with the upcoming Water Wars in the 2050s.
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The Canadian border 50 years from now....
