CarlMarks
Be ready to board a plane and get out early enough.
The first is about having money. Easier said than done, of course. If you want to be particularly secure, you’d consider having enough gold for it, as it’s an inflation hedge and I would not be surprised if hyperinflation coincided with these things. Yes I know that buying gold sounds silly lol.
The second is about deciding when to fight and when to run. Not easy and a personal decision, but people who stay too long if we lose will be in a bad situation.
You’re not knocking down propaganda, you’re just being selectively gullible and letting absurd weirdos control your beliefs without investigating them. Adrian Zenz, breathless and inconsistent BBC videos, “medua bias fact check” that’s a ridiculous politically one-dimensional “centrism is facts” website with no consistent methodology by people you should have no reason to trust.
Personally, I try to not unquestioningly accept state department propaganda directed at a perceived enemy state from 3 years ago, and then when challenged hastily google until my biases are confirmed, but you do you.
Yes, this is a good idea. You could also focus on the community-building aspect: these are our neighbors, capitalism has done huge violence to them, and we need to take care of each other because nobody else will. Whatever aid you focus on will likely be useful for more people than just the unhoused, which is ahain good community building.
Choose the right community to start in, too. Suburbsn rich crackerville will probably dehumanize the people you’re helping and see it as harmful. I wouldn’t do my first action there.
Tie your work to a larger project as well. Build a list of supporters with contact info so you can push a local electoral campaign, hold rallies to pressure politicians, etc. This will help justify and offset costs, as aid $$$ quickly adds up and you will need donations and all opportunities to build power.
US warfare doctrine works okay but it expects complete air dominance and the enemy is vastly underequipped. It’s used for imperialism against poor countries, not peer conflicts.
Hilarious
The key is to make fun of them. They are not serious people deserving of respect and they don’t respond to argument or fact.
When things ramp up, socialists may need to flee (or get jailed/killed).
It’s happened many times before. Also, the fash don’t understand our divisions so they’ll go after everyone vaguely left. Example: Indonesian DemSocs thought they’d be spared under Suharto since they persued 100% legal and “friendly” means. They were very wrong.
