ProdigalFrog

You could warn your area if you see ICE around on this website.

Finding and getting involved in a local mutual aid group would be quite meaningful, as it would allow you to meet people who share your same concerns IRL, and be able to plan and organize for how to react in your area. It's very make a meaningful difference alone, finding a solid group is very important.

Attempting to unionize your workplace if it isn't already would be very helpful to further prepare for a General Strike (as they usually have strike funds to make a general strike financially bearable), which is pretty much our last non-violent option to prevent all of this from progressing. You can see how a general strike helped cripple Chile's government while civil unrest was occurring in this documentary.

I'd recommend contacting the IWW, who will gladly train you to become an organizer with proven techniques to unionize your workplace.

Lastly, I'd also recommend checking out the book Full Spectrum Resistance for a more complete guide on how to prepare and respond.

There's a 3rd type of socialism that was more rarely spoken of in the 60's and 70's, because it didn't have the drawbacks of centralized soviet style communism and therefor was more difficult to demonize: Anarchism. This ideology was successfully implemented for a few years in parts of Spain during their civil war, and its success in creating a non-hierarchical decentralized and free society even attracted George Orwell to visit it, and join their cause to fight for what they were building.

It was eventually crushed by both fascists and communists, as both sides were terrified of that concept spreading. If we're able to implement it again someday, possibly in a spot where it would be much harder to crush militarily, then it would be a genie impossible to put back in the bottle, as it would be so self-evident in how superior of a way of life it provides to everyone, without the downsides of a centralized dictator.

Ah! Totally misinterpreted your comment then, sorry 😅

I thought its discussion of how much Civilization focuses on conquest, colonization, and combat over most other systems, to the point of it becoming a bit ridiculous if you try to go pacifist, was interesting. The year it was written didn't seem a detriment.

Finasteride only really effects hair on the scalp, since beard hairs aren't effected by the chemical that finasteride protects against.

With closed source apps, we can't independently verify what is or is not being collected.

But another, longer-term issue, is that because they are proprietary, if they became quite popular, they would very likely be sold to either a competitor to shut it down, or enshittified by adding transaction fees.

As an older example, Paperback Swap was an incredible website where people could give away books in exchange for a credit, which could be exchanged with another user for their book. There were no fees taken by the website, the only cost was shipping the books via media mail (which was extremely affordable, as the books would be wrapped in printer paper).

Paperback Swap was, at the time, a very popular website, with over a million books available. I used the service for many years happily exchanging books.

Then it was purchased by Amazon, which saw Paperback Swap as a threat to their used book market. They immediately enshittified the app, adding transaction fees and requiring you to purchase exchange credits or ongoing subscriptions. Within a couple years the community was effectively killed, and now shambles on as a shell of its former self.

Free, Libre open-source apps are the only long-term refuge from the constant churn of enshittification, as the community can always fork it to prevent bad-actors and venture capital from corrupting it.

For those reasons, you're likely to experience some pushback on them. We've been burned so many times :(

Flohmarket could potentially be an alternative, though I'm not sure if instances can be set up to be purely barter.

If it were replaced with massive investment into public transport and new dedicated high speed rail between US cities, it'd be a huge net positive.

A man can dream, anyway.

To do it again would literally kill air travel in the country for the next 30 years. People would literally stop flying.

From a climate perspective, that would be fantastic.

Hell, switch to Impossible meat permanently.

Fucks with MAGA farmers and drastically lowers cattle based emissions with one stone.

Moorcock is an Anarchist, as well.

Kreia from KOTOR 2 really gave an astonishingly good performance, as did Bao-dur in the game game.

It uses Asimov and Heinlein as examples of right-wing fiction though, so you might want to separate those out.