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Where would you move to ride out a potential WWIII?

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[-] vacuumfountain@startrek.website 116 points 2 weeks ago

I think we should go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

you'd certainly be able to have a freer conversation than on .ml

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[-] TheFudd@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago

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!

[-] TheGreatSnacku@lemm.ee 43 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] seeigel@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

It will be a boring name.

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[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 2 weeks ago

When the world ends, collect your things, you're coming with me...

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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 weeks ago

Not with rising sea levels

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

A proto-Waterworld scenario!

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[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Okay, Newfoundland.

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[-] orvorn@slrpnk.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

I'm staying right here in the imperial core where I can inflict the most damage when the time comes.

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[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

Just teleport me to L3 and be done with it. Earth-Moon, Sun-Earth, doesn't matter.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 20 points 2 weeks ago

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:-).

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 13 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, in Musk's fantasy Mars is the easier planet to live on.

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[-] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 18 points 2 weeks ago

Argentina probably. Generally the southern hemisphere is pretty safe. Nobody's wasting nukes on brown people, except maybe Israel.

[-] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 weeks ago

Wouldn't bet on argentina. They've got their own dickhead in chief who's also waging war against progress.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] dzso@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Argentinians are mostly white.

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[-] marte@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

If the world goes to shit and the UK is fighting with Russia, would Milei try to grab the Falklands?

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago

We'll know what the right answer was after it passes.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

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)

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[-] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 11 points 2 weeks ago

Most of the violence and oppression gets exported, so it's probably best to just sit tight here in the heart of the empire.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

If I were to stay in the U.S., I'd probably go to Hawaii, probably Maui or Lanai.

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] seeigel@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

London. Thanks to the artefacts in the British Museum, nobody will dare to throw bombs there.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 16 points 2 weeks ago

Famously, it didn't stop the Nazis.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Uruguay, New Zealand, or SE Asia

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I had Uruguay and New Zealand on my list.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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).

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[-] kepix@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

if teleportation is allowed, i would just telefrag putin in moscow.

[-] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

We will know the best place after whatever event happens. It’s always hard to predict these things with so many variables.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

Somewhere I won't be bothered, like Tristan da Cunha or the Pitcairn Islands

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