I think we should go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
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I'm one of the lucky ones! Because of my service to our great country fighting against those dirty communists, when the bombs fall my family and I will be safe and sound, underground, in one of the local vaults in our area: Vault 108!
Oh shit... I just realized that it's only a matter of time until Musk starts building vaults. Probably with a much worse name like vaultX
Dude that's a long since passed look at the vaults in Hawaii with zuck. I hope they choke down there. Remember they all have air filters.
Xault
It will be a boring name.
My crazy mom says she's looking to move to Uruguay because when the nukes start falling they will most likely not have a ton of fallout to deal with.
I'm gonna run toward the light in that kind of scenario, personally. Nature will rebuild. In a WWIII scenario, the winner is evolution. Life will, uh, find its way.
It's five and I'm driving home again
It's hard to believe that it's my last time
The man on the wireless cries again
"It's over, it's over"
It's late and I'm with my love alone
We drink to forget the coming storm
We love to the sound of our favorite song
Over and over
Dancing, with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
Dancing, with tears in my eyes
Living out a memory of a love that died
Behind the Bastards had a Christmas special non-bastard episode on the Tupamaros of Uruguay and Pepe Mujica. It does seem like they have some decent politics there.
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.
Not with rising sea levels
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.
I'm staying right here in the imperial core where I can inflict the most damage when the time comes.
Just teleport me to L3 and be done with it. Earth-Moon, Sun-Earth, doesn't matter.
Bold to presume that we would want to survive it.
Fwiw Musk says that he wants to leave Earth and go to Mars, which is great news for the rest of us:-).
To be fair, in Musk's fantasy Mars is the easier planet to live on.
While Latin America is, overall, a good choice, it's important to recognize that the mask off fascism we are seeing from the US will only increase the meddling they already do on their "backyard", so keep that in mind.
Everyone saying Latin America has absolutely no clue about what Latin America is, lol. The only place safe from fascism rn is either another planet or being dead.
Argentina probably. Generally the southern hemisphere is pretty safe. Nobody's wasting nukes on brown people, except maybe Israel.
Wouldn't bet on argentina. They've got their own dickhead in chief who's also waging war against progress.
Yeah, it may not be the best choice, but not the worst either. They're not much of a threat to the big powers, and if they just stay out of it they'll probably come through fine.
Somewhere in South America. Always wanted to go the Falklands. In reality I don't have the money for that. So I'm here on this hell ride to the bitter end.
If the world goes to shit and the UK is fighting with Russia, would Milei try to grab the Falklands?
Where would you move to ride out a potential WWIII?
Australia. There really is no better place in the event of nuclear war. It's a continent-island, meaning easy to defend, it grows and can build just about anything, and being in the southern hemisphere it should be safe from nuclear winter.
Specifically, a rural property somewhere agricultural. Maybe Queensland or Tasmania.
If you could move anywhere to minimize the impact on you of the worldwide rise of fascism...
That's almost a different question, though. Whichever European country is the most securely democratic. There's lots of non-war ways fascism can suck aggressively.
We'll know what the right answer was after it passes.
Most of the violence and oppression gets exported, so it's probably best to just sit tight here in the heart of the empire.
If I were to stay in the U.S., I'd probably go to Hawaii, probably Maui or Lanai.
I think I already live in one of the places least likely to be involved in WW3
The countryside of Brazil
In the previous two World Wars Brazil only got involved because people pressured the president to do so, otherwise we could have just sat the entire thing out.
Like, life will get shittier here too, but it is VIOLENTLY unlikely that there will be any fighting in our soil or even a draft to send soldiers to the war. (and I aggressively doubt there will be any kind of nuke-related mutually assured destruction shenanigans. The elites don't benefit from causing the apocalypse)
London. Thanks to the artefacts in the British Museum, nobody will dare to throw bombs there.
Famously, it didn't stop the Nazis.
Latin America. They are not aligned with NATO or Russia/China. And the level of life quality have greatly improved in later years. In fact many migrants feel cheated when coming here because they thought europe was better than it actually is in comparison.
Uruguay, New Zealand, or SE Asia
I had Uruguay and New Zealand on my list.
If you go to New Zealand, you'll have to deal with the shithead billionaires there who will have moved there a few days ahead of you, (since they'll get extra warning of course), who will have moved already into the fortress-bunkers they've been making for a decade or so there.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaires-are-building-luxury-bunkers-to-escape-doomsday/
https://www.massivemagazine.org.nz/articles/9ifugmdie5ofe1utd1bgsw4zascn61
It should be a life mission of anyone in New Zealand, when the time comes, to find out where their air systems reach the surface and throw a few grenades down the ducts. For the good of humanity (whatever's left).
East Africa. I just like the idea.
I'm thinking NZ or AUS
If the Americans are dumb enough to start a war with China, the Aus vasals are the first to go.
Better not move to a city then.
As an Australian, I'm often thinking about whether Russian or mandarin is the best language for me to learn. Definitely more rations for an interpreter
You might want to wait until after the May election to see whether Australia is immune to the rise of fascism.
nz just voted a facist goverment and australia deports migrants to islands in the middle of nowhere. no.
Iceland
Vietnam. Decent enough government and standard of living, and they whooped America's ass so bad that it'd be political suicide to go back there. I mean, what kind of timeline would we have to be on for someone to be stupid enough to... hmm.
Considering that fucking Greenland is caught up in it now, idk that anywhere is safe.
We will know the best place after whatever event happens. Itβs always hard to predict these things with so many variables.