These people figure everyone else will do the hard stuff, and one day they’ll all come to their senses after rebuilding and realize they need a beans and guns guy. It’s a kind of narcissistic laziness.

Or fight fascists to prevent a doomsday. Instead of voting them into office.

Porque no los dos?

Community engagement is vital, and we should all be involved with outreach, education, and mutual aid.

I think we all understand that we're on our own now, and if we want our communities to survive and thrive we need to take ownership and contribute.

But it's naive as fuck to pretend we won't be on our own protecting those communities as well. Arm up, train up.

Let's be honest, if there is a global apocalypse and the only people left are the billionaires in their bunkers, how long are they really going to hang around doing their own laundry, eating canned food, and watching reruns?

Maybe learn Vietnamese. They fought the French, the US, China, and Cambodia one after the other, and won. They must know some shit.

BEANS

Learned how to chop wood today

Doing a light version of the cabin in the woods thing ("F*** this city! I'm gonna go live in a cabin in the woods!")

Interestingly enough I am doing this cause I'm a musician and need a place where I won't bother anyone with my noise. Two birds one feeder, as the saying goes

This presumes you live around real people.

My neighbors are a mysterious Brazilian who changes the topic when asked his profession but drives many luxury cars (drugs were hinted at by others), an 85 year old MAGA anti-vacc used car salesman, an absentee company owner that uses a $1.25M house to park his logoed trucks, boats and jet skis, and a lawyer who adopts maladjusted dogs and leaves his door open for them to run around the neighborhood biting people (me last).

Brazilian throws large parties for people who drive Porsches, used car dealer complains about Democrats and leaves packages on his porch for over a year, absentee is able to hook up a boat and leave in two minutes, and lawyer neglects feral dogs and spends time with his horses. I have only ever seen the used car salesman do work. He loves running things with motors at night.

None garden but 3/4 installed insecticide systems to kill all pollinators on their property at the push of a button and hire people to put in nice ornamentals.

The same 3/4 produce more garbage in a week than my family of four does in two months and may throw out and replace clothing rather than washing, so I doubt mending is on the table. They certainly don't cook based on the food deliveries. Absentee business owner has never spent a night in that house in two years and I don't know what he wears or looks like.

Join your local CERT, learn and get free stuff and meet people

Is that a fish smoking a cigarette? With its eye?

Damn, really sounds like you were just listing off all the traits of Anarchism

Not just their professional trades. Cultivate skills. Cooking, repair, gardening, etc.

Damn.....that's just about perfect

Hey, you're just preparing for a different doomsday. How do you know they're not preparing for an animal uprising, where all the bears, elk, and wolves team up to eliminate their human overlords? In that scenario, preparing hunting material makes tons of sense.

If you aren't armed and prepared to defend yourself and your community, you are just gathering resources and slaves for the people that are armed and want your stuff and want to turn you into slaves or corpses.

Guns and bunkers would help at first though

Establishing a community garden is a lot of fun actually. We have one in our house but it is not very big so you basically get a single vegetable every now and then but the whole working with the ground, keeping the irrigation system intact is soothing.