What do we do?

 Only you can fully know your own situation. The broad, sweeping strokes remain the same as the ecocide is global, but the closer you get to any situation the more variables begin to branch out and become unmanageable. Once the numbers get too large our ape brains cease being able to grok them and everything moves into the abstract, becoming divorced from your actual physical situation. It is ultimately an animal’s number one goal to Stay Alive and all else comes secondary to that fact- and so you must consider solutions with no regard for what the state, in its infinite and magnanimous wisdom, deems to be unreasonable or impossible.

If you are unsure that your food production is secure (Precarity, for example being dependent on a paycheck-to-paycheck income, the condition of 78% of US workers) then you are only condemning yourself to starvation by refusing to plant tubers because it isn’t “your property”. You are allowing an intangible and incorporeal force to murder you slowly and painfully, defending it every step of the way like a tapeworm with a name.Take advantage of the current information boom brought on by the internet and research ways to produce drinkable water, research optimal crop arrangements and nutritional balances (potatoes are key), begin researching reloading and the basics of ammunition production, none of that is a given unless you are in the privileged class and plan to stay there, and if that is the case you benefit more from propagation of the current system anyways you fucking lib.

Gun clubs are the most broadly viable organizational model I have found. It gives you incredible utility, allowing you to negotiate deals for larger amounts of ammunition and weaponry that would otherwise be locked off to an average citizen, and provides an easy framework for integration. By pitching it as an interest group instead of a political one it gives you a mechanism by which to draw in the politically unaware and radicalize them.

Rural areas will provide a steady stream of prospects by simple virtue of guns being central to rural life, while urban areas afford a denser population of white liberals that think themselves already radicalized despite having never touched a gun. These can be courted by usage of the label “Antifa” and by playing on their latent power fantasies- tell them that yes, having a gun does make you powerful, the only way to oppose the state’s monopoly on violence is to yourself learn to control the means of violent production, and so by the alchemy of ideology do you render a “mutual aid and defense organization with an educational focus” rather than the much-maligned “militia” that many militants or radicals rely on. The idea is to introduce a sort of radical fatigue- a state in which radical thought becomes normalized, expected, and accepted without too much active consideration- then you begin the real discussion. This works well with a lot of otherwise benign Left-aligned groups like Trotskyist reading circles who are otherwise pacified by luxuries.

The other side already has an entire radical-industrial complex in place pumping out dozens of school shooters every year- why is it so crazy to say that our friends and family should be armed and prepared to defend themselves from it? The Industrial Left is necessarily anti-firearm because it would otherwise pose an actual threat to the monopoly on violence and the State can only allow either token resistance or the capability to do it harm. Any groups which seek both have been consistently cracked down on with full force (see MOVE, the Black Panther Party,  as well the specific murders of Fred Hampton, Lavoy Finicum, and Vicki Weaver) not to mention the additional civil war fought on US soil over unionization and coal mining which have been suppressed by state media- the only driving ideological force allowed to be portrayed as powerful enough to oppose the state is white supremacy, which too has been subsumed.

The only gun culture allowed to develop without violent intervention is that of the toothless (from the perspective of the state) far right, which is ideologically bound to only use them in its favor. Even when they act in supposed opposition it is under the pretense that they have the state’s real best interests at heart, and that corrupting skandalons have influenced it from the righteous path. As mentioned before, it is not so- capitalism is functioning as intended. Read “Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?” by Mark Fisher if you don’t understand how the system might not only function independent of human supporters but also might function more optimally without them. The machinic process of Capital is itself a form of artificial intelligence, a self-correcting super-structure of data points with goals and needs.

But the information is out there. It is easier than ever to fill gaps in your information and seek the status of the Anarchist Strawman Ubermensch- the one-man walking society capable of solving every issue that statists currently demand in answer to their question, “How do you replace us?” as more time than ever has been dedicated to the science of optimal production. Food has been a solved problem for a long time, we know how many calories we need and what nutritional balance to strive for, and there will be extensive documentation at any library you can visit. Magic tubers from the new world known as “potatoes” can be grown in a 5x5x5 cube in large enough quantities to sustain a human of nearly any size, and they provide nearly every nutrient necessary to your function, fully rounded out by the addition of a square of butter to each serving. There are extensive manuals detailing water condensation and purification methods, and thousands of hours of youtube videos to the same effect. The primary shortcoming of information at the moment is regarding the production of firearms.

Read PA Luty. Assemble a ghost gun from ar15 uppers, lowers, and parts kits. Spend as much spare time as you can practicing firearm usage and teaching it to others who might need it - especially the demographics that are statistically most in danger of violence, such as black and/or trans individuals. Sponsor/become SRA, Pink Pistol, or John Brown Gun Club chapters if you think those labels would appeal to the local population.

Do what you think is necessary to ensure your safety, as it is very likely the US is going to fall apart in the near future leaving a lot of people flat footed. Do what you are reasonably capable of in your situation - nothing can be demanded or expected of you, as you owe me nothing.

But most important of all is to remember to have fun. Otherwise, what’s the point?