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If you could move anywhere to minimize the impact on you of the worldwide rise of fascism... (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Where would you move to ride out a potential WWIII?

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[–] smuuthbrane 41 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Depends, are we riding out the rise of fascism or riding out WWIII? Those are two highly different scenarios.

Either way, a Pacific island sounds nice.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not with rising sea levels

[–] smuuthbrane 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Fair. A boat anchored at a Pacific Island, while they exist.

Maybe I'll dock at the Pacific garbage patch and distill my fuel from microplastics.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A proto-Waterworld scenario!

[–] smuuthbrane 2 points 3 weeks ago

No gills for me, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The Pacific Garbage patch isn't solid enough to dock on.

Also, Pacific atolls will be fucked, but high islands will be fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think I am stuck in Texas

[–] sentient_loom 6 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, Newfoundland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Totally agree, but you really never know where would be insulated from everything

I mean surely in the 1930s Hawaii felt like an excellent place to be insulated from war...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ever read the book On the Beach?

[–] smuuthbrane 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Closest I've read is Lord of the Flies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hah very different themes I'd say.

On the Beach is about all the people who thought it'd be a good idea to move to Australia in case all the nukes drop during the Cold War, and then the nukes drop and everyone in the northern hemisphere dies and they survive, but then they realize they're just waiting for the natural wind patterns to bring all the radiation over to them to kill them too. The only way to win is not to play.

So similar in that they're both very dismal.

[–] smuuthbrane 1 points 3 weeks ago

I read a short story with a very similar theme, could have been that book.