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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • This article highlights the more organized resource drives, and that’s super cool to see. But one comment I have about the title–people don’t need to learn to help one another during a disaster. IMO, it’s the default response.

    I’m from upstate South Carolina and I know some people in Asheville. Immediately after Helene, everyone was helping everyone. People were sharing gas, generators, food. Anyone with a chainsaw was helping to clear roads.

    This is my big criticism with the prepper types. They are way too focused on getting all the resources they would ever need to survive a prolonged disaster when they should be focused on building a community to help one another. This is especially apparent with their desire to own guns and stock ammo. In their mind, a disaster means people will try to steal their resources so they need to defend that. In reality, their neighbors will be coming over asking for or offering help.












  • You’re moving the goalposts. Neither the person you’re replying to nor the article mention anything about relaxing the standard. All of the legislation and proposals in this area come from Republicans trying to make it harder for non-citizens to vote.

    The article is pointing out the boogyman nature of this focus from the right. I would go a step further and say that this focus is an effort to disenfranchise working class voters by throwing more paperwork between them and their vote. I might even go another step and say that it’s an effort to delegitimize our elections by claiming fraud to pave the way for illegitimate power grabs (like Jan 6).