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What does "taking it seriously" look like when Joe Shmoe does it? Am I building a bomb shelter? Am I printing copies of (some less discredited edition of) the Anarchist's Cookbook and leaving them at food banks?
Yes. All of the above. Any small resistance is resistance. Small acts become large when many do them. Learn how to protect yourself and your neighbor even if you're just reading up or watching videos. Educate yourself on anything that can help should an emergency of some sort arise. Take a first aid class, take a martial arts class, get registered as a gun owner or go to a local range just to educate yourself on how to, join a local drone enthusiasts group or buy a drone and practice with it, join a hacker collective, stock trauma medical supplies, learn how to grow food or cook, volunteer at a local food bank or shelter. encourage your political reps to divest CPP from American holdings and investment firms. Encourage your workplace unions to do the same.
Mostly...Do anything that will help your fellow Canadians even if you don't agree with their religious beliefs, sexual orientation, political ideologies etc. Coming together as a people is what we need right now.
oh god, NO, it doesn't make sense to be building a fucking nuclear bomb shelter in fucking Waterloo because I'm afraid of Trump. That is time and energy that is wasted, and if there is genuinely a threat, that means I've just made the threat more dangerous.
Even when your heart is in the right place, even when you are motivated by genuine threats, you can still make things worse by being stupid and getting manipulated. And even if the threat is real, it doesn't mean people aren't taking advantage of it to manipulate us into doing things that are not in our own self-interest.
Yea bomb shelter is exterme and useless. Sorry I didn't mention that. I assumed it was sarcasm. Silly me.
Don't bother focusing on the things you really can accomplish though. That would be dumb.