• supersquirrel@lemmy.caOP
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      What scares me is how much people assume despite all available evidence that Trump and Vance won’t do something brash and self-defeating.

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    2 years ago I moved states. After surviving a tornado and hurricane in the span of maybe 18 months, then covid, I had good emergency kits. But since I moved north much of it had expired or cycled out. When a winter storm hit at the beginning of 2026 I realized I needed to rebuild those kits. This was just around the time things were only "supposedly"ramping up in Iran, ice was going bonkers, the economy was really hitting the shitter, and political upheaval generally kept me up at night. Going through some general prepper lists I ended up with a pretty comprehensive kit. Suddenly my YouTube feed started suggesting societal collapse prep guides, long term grid outages, etc etc. One thing that stuck when looking at building out a good medical kit was saying the potential for either retaliatory strikes, or hitting nuclear plants going up…I ended up with a couple bottles of Potassium Iodide.

    After reading this, I’m not saying i need to start reinforcing my basement…but just saying it’s not the worst way I spent $10

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      this is how I explain it to people.

      I have food and water stocked that I regularly use and rotate out from. same with medications.

      I pay into insurance not for the big payoff, but for the peace of mind that should anything happen, options will be available.

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        Yup. Just because you bought a box of bandages or a spool of cordage last year doesn’t mean you have some permanently stocked for the next incident.

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      I feel $10 could buy you some newspaper to line the walls of your basement with.

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    I genuinely think Trump might choose Remembrance Day to drop a nuke purely to make it more “historic”.