Originally Posted by
sonatine
just circled up with my neighbor. super, super nice guy. just total hard working dude, probably trump voter, cute wife, new kid, dogs. real solid, trustworthy people basically.
like tl;dr hes like "have you seen whats going on out there...?"
and im like yeah its pretty crazy and hes like "no no but.. have you SEEN whats going on out there? its CRAZY." and i realized he was commenting on the fabric of society unravelling like toilet paper and i realized that even tho ive been expecting this since i was 12, most people seriously lived without ever once considering that this shit could happen. its one bad fucking day away from this, all the time, always.
i talked him down a bit but im starting to realize that a lot of trumps base voted for him because they really and truly had no idea that things like this could happen, this doesnt fit into their worldview.
told him it would be fine, we gotta do some grid quarantines, nationalize supply channels.. no ones going to find our houses to rob us, no food riots up here in the woods, i got extra flour if he needs it, so on. explained that a lot of advancements have been made in AI/ML that are going to make cracking this nut much faster/easier than people expect.. dow jones at its lowest right now is still at approx the peak of where we were at before the housing market implosion, we just lost a bunch of baby fat so on.
and he calmed down a lot and seemed to unwind a bit and it was also nice because i was helping someone feel better, and everything i said was true.
nice moment i suppose.