I like the idea for one oasis left. We could do to have more queer people in the prepping mindset. I'm in the mindset of making small changes to my lifestyle now, in the hopes that I won't have to later, going car free and bus/bike only, reducing my carbon footprint, trying to eat a pescetarian diet because its less carbon intensive. I'm not convinced that the government will collapse (or won't), but I'm hoping that more people can do small things to improve our odds of weathering climate change.

I really don't blame you for putting your energy towards things you can actually change. And honestly, distrust in the governments ability to care for people still feels trans as hell to me.

fishing poles are EVERYWHERE in garage sales and flea markets, so if you're looking for one i'd go there. ive never gotten one second hand so i cant tell you if they're shit or not but i think its worth mentioning

low key, I would love to watch your progress on learning these skills if you're able to film as you go. Keeping up to date with trans/queer issues in news and politics is important, but I agree, it is so exhausting. Some more laid-back, chill videos on foraging, hunting, fishing, gardening, etc. in the context of self-sufficiency sounds lit.

Hi, transgender, homeless vet here. I’m a survivalist and I love the idea of

I don't think people misunderstood you. The last video just did not offer any real advice to anyone struggling. This is a much better direction of things though. I've been learning and teaching others how to forage and have made a website too.

@LuxanderReal

Ай бұрын

It wasn't directed toward people who are struggling, this is one of the main points I feel I was trying to articulate but wasn't coming across. Clear headed people matter of factly stating that if they lose this healthcare in the future they simply have no desire to try to cope and live. Not people in active crisis, not people reaching out for help

Personally I'm disabled enough I can barely make it day to day with all the modern conveniences I have. If everything does go to hell and break down, I don't want to try to survive it. I grew up hunting, fishing, and foraging and the spoons it took just to be able to eat was more SI inducing than being trans in a proto-Qanon family in a deep red area was

@pinetreegreen3330

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Aw yeah im disabled ass well i also cant do hunting or forageing bc of disabilities (guns hurt my ears and i can see to shoot a arrow at a fixed target but dont think i could humainly hit a moveing one) so im trying to think of like stuff i can do to get thoes resources like i can sew and people will still need cloths as well as food theres qlso the posibility that if internet goes down you would need artists so singing or playing guitar or song writing commissions in exstchange for food things like that whish there was more disability discourse in preper movement and that thoes things would be taken into acout

@goblindude4242

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I hope things don’t go to hell and you don’t ever have to get to that point, but if things seem to get worse and worse from here on I can only suggest and hope you’re able to find enough strength and support from your community and loved ones. If you are able to try to stock up on medication, assistive equipment/technology and etc. this would also be huge. Humans usually care for each other’s survival and wellbeing very deeply when we are put into these kinds of circumstances and in a worst case scenario I hope this at least would happen to help you survive. But I do acknowledge I know nothing about your situation and it is very easy for non disabled people to totally disregard the complexity of these things. I’m wishing you well.

@dorianthegrey2685

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@@goblindude4242 Can't afford to consistently get my medication as is, let alone stock up; am zero contact with my family and my only friends live in another state. I'm hosed if things go sideways and I've long made peace with that

@goblindude4242

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@@dorianthegrey2685 Yeah I completely get that, sorry if what I said came off as dismissive at all, I hope your situation improves.

@alligatorsarecoming78

Ай бұрын

This is why we need to build community. The physically disabled folks aren't supposed to do the hunting and fishing ... But to build community, we need the less neurodevelopmentally disabled/more extraverted folks to do the outreach. I can be useful once I'm in, but I am not good at developing relationships or with people in general. I have no family so I have no model for how to do that. I was burnt too many times by so-called chosen family and gave up years ago, anyway. But a lot of people are isolated, and that's our biggest issue as Americans facing a climate crisis. The US puts all burdens on the hyper individualistic institution of the family. If you don't have a family, its basically "fuck you, you're on your own," here. And that's a lot of queer people... I don't think you'd be as concerned about your survival if you had more support. i know I wouldn't be ...

this is the only time i’ve seen a video discussing climate change that makes me feel like there’s still hope for life after everything starts to go south, and doesn’t just leave me to cope with anxiety. it seems like everybody in leftist spaces is waiting for it to happen, but nobody wants to discuss what happens after the fact. can’t wait to see how your channel goes

I have a lot of respect for you Lux. Been around for long enough to have learned that making your whole life politics can be super rough. Especially when you are running in the circles of news our community receives. Our family will always be here for your content as long as it doesn't turn to hate which I don't see happening. I feel like most of my self confidence and the thing that has helped me with my depression the most in life is the litany of outdoors skills I have acquired. knowing how self reliant I am from not needing a mechanic for most basic things to being able to grow, process, and cook my own food. Encouraging people to equip themselves is valid no matter what the reason. I am of the Camp that the world is headed towards a ton of change and soon and people should be getting ready. Have a beautiful day Lux you are amazing and I look forward to being a part of your community till you retire some day.

I would be very interested in the financial/legal/bureaucratic issues of starting a homestead. It seems like most of the homesteading info comes from people who already have a stable base and/or people who are trying to sell something. Also, if you want more Oregonian friends, I'm in Oregon!

I think you're totally right about how priorities are going to shift ie with climate change and I hope to see more people adjusting their mindset towards becoming prepared for that.

I Am ALL for it! I Am Tranz, but I try to focus My Time on Talking about Raising the Vibration of Mother Gaia, and Believe It or not, if the Vibration gets HIGHER, then People will Be THRILLED to Use Proper Pronouns Ase 🙏🏿

Excellent! Ive been subbed to your other channel, but ive changed from Recommended notifications to all notifications. I cant wait to see what you do with that channel! Im in Georgia, and have land and chickens. I want some bees badly, so i look forward to learning with you! Just out of curiosity, will you be learning archery, too? That's been on my To Do list forever! Tbh, i have a hard time watching too much of this channel anymore. It hurts too much. I've had to step away from most political and social issues rn for my mental health. I can't begin to imagine how painful it must be for you. 💔

i'm following your other channel, as well as i shared it with my sister, who is very interested in homesteading as such. She's a crossbow hunter. She's in the process of buying 2 wooded acres in south Ohio that backs against a national forest. So she was quite interested.

Oof, this video gave me a bit of existential dread... not necessarily your fault, but I would like to ask if you have any advice for coping with enormous problems such as climate change?

@LuxanderReal

Ай бұрын

Focus on what you can actually control and try to make plans for the future. Even if you have a little balcony garden in an apartment that's progress. Sorry if I'm not the best at giving this kind of advice, the way I cope is by taking control wherever I can

@Musicombo

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​@@LuxanderRealI appreciate it!! I also like problem-solving whenever I can; I'm just busy finishing up my teaching certificate apps and starting my career 😅 hopefully after, I'll be able to garner much more free time to prep for the future. Stay safe ❤

@pinetreegreen3330

Ай бұрын

As someone who deals with existential dread i just focus on doing what i can

The idea behind at "One Oasis Left" sounds good too me. There is much we can leave about living off of what nature has to offer. I believe it goes well to learn how to do those things with the changes happening to our climate and how that will affect commercially sourced food sources.

Following you over on one oasis left. Your content has played a big role in encouraging me to make better choices for myself and those around me in the last year and a half or so - from getting into excercise to starting to grow my own food to learning more survival skills. Thank you for all of the encouragement, inspiration, and information.

Naw, gutted to hear your computer bricked up, hopefully it's not too expensive. I liked your "hot take", it's important to talk about that issue(had my history too with it). Anyways, you got this Luxander and you accomplished to reach a smol nice community :3 thank you for your content. Stay safe and awesome and hey thanks for the shout out 🖤💜🤍💛 much luv 🐾

I'm in Oregon! I'm wishing you all the luck with your move.

I moved to Oregon from Texas a few months ago. I absolutely love it here so far

Remove your gpu and try booting again if you can, if it still doesn’t work, disconnect everything but the cpu and 1 RAM stick. If it still doesn’t work, switch that RAM stick for one of the other ones in that spot, then try moving that stick to another RAM slot to confirm the slot itself isn’t broken. Unplug the computer before any of these actions, and keep one hand or skin in contact with a metal part of the chassis at all times you are messing around in there.

These Keffals-style clickbait titles are concerning.

I understand your issues with burnout, take heart on the political front as both Justice and Politics lurch along at much slower rates than any of us would like sometime. The public discourse seems to be going in the right direction, but it's going to take years to improve consistently... Good side of this is that it also generally gets worse over years so anything trending in a better direction tends to continue trending in that direction. Climate changes and efforts to improve this are ongoing and desperately needed and I can't be quite so positive in that area. Treating people better.. I agree that should never be an issue, but sadly it is. Everyone needs to learn that for themselves. Your discussions and aid in injecting some sanity here have helped

I’m all for the shift of your content. You gotta do what you can to stay sane while trying to survive LSC and our hellscape of politics. I’m rooting for your success with One Oasis Left and getting to become a homesteader.

I used to get crippling anxiety to the point of borderline suicidality any time I saw anything about climate change. Your content is one of the things that has helped me with that. Radical acceptance and focusing on what I can control has already improved my mental health. And if things go the way we think they will, it will save some lives.

Hi Lux, a little tip (that you may or may not already know) about pain medications. Wild lettuce, (Lactuca Virosa, latin) is as far as I'm familiar a widespread plant in the US also as in Europe, and it's concentrate is a very potent pain reliever. So much so that it is often referred to in slang as "legal opium," or "opium substitute." And it's relatively easy to extract it at home without any kind of special equipment, with just everyday house hold items. And the plant itself usually grows everywhere in nature, in meadow like places.🙏🌄

I moved out to the middle of nowhere in the mountains last year and have been learning gardening, fishing, carpentry, plumbing, small engine repair etc.... I already knew how to hunt and we've got a bunch of rifles and ammo up here. My boss and the owner of the property I live on is right there with me in at least wanting to be prepared for a scenario where we lose access to basic services. It's been fun! I've learned a bunch of stuff I never thought I'd learn how to do and can kind of emotionally separate from all the news about the world because, up here, I'm somewhat isolated from it and know I can still survive and even be happy if everything hits the fan. Property is right on a river to pull fish out of, there are tons of deer, we have some laying hens and we've got a solar array. The drinking water comes from a local creek that's filtered down and pumped through a big pipe that runs through several properties. So the basics are always gonna be covered. Between gardening, fishing, hunting we'll pretty much be okay no matter what happens down the mountain in the "real" world. I've even learned a little bit of tracking. Just made a stew out of home grown potato, onions, dill, basil, and a big hunk of roast. The roast was the only thing store bought. I'm in North Humboldt, a few hours south of the Oregon border.

@LuxanderReal

Ай бұрын

the dream

I admire you for trying to be a beacon of active hope and a need to make preparations to surviving and aiding each other in a future which we have every reason to expect will become much, much harder, but will still be a future in which we can live as well as we can and find joy in doing it. Humanity has an endless supply of people freshly falling off the apple cart who are only just figuring out that our structures of power are not serving us, but rather are actively becoming actively-threatening to all peoples living on the periphery, and it's exhausting trying to move conversations along and get people increasingly prepared and connected while the discourse never seems to advance past square one. I don't at all fault you for feeling the need to change your work to better match your needs. Hopefully and likely so, there will be other people who can step in and try to bring the next batch of people along, and I hope they'll be able to learn the wisdom of those who have gone before and not stumble over too many of the same hurdles. I personally found your previous video to be grounding in a way I needed badly, so no matter how much flack you got for it, I say you did the community a solid.

@LuxanderReal

Ай бұрын

I really appreciate it

Voice of experience: get people to homestead with you. It's a lot more expensive and laborious that it seems, but many hands make light work! I've lived on a number of communes that worked out pretty well but on my own, it's like digging a never-ending hole. I've appreciated both your trans and political content and do find the former useful as a barometer, but yeah don't burn yourself out :-)

Thank You - i especially loved that You put everything in Your description i cheer for You, Sister! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Oregon often gets 120 degrees in the summer and the fires keep getting worse. Buy some respirators with extremely good filters.

I totally get where you are coming from. I enjoy your streams a lot (although I always watch them afterwards - time zones and all) but I understand how this wears you completely down. I'm already looking forward to what's coming next. Also love that you're on The Line now. They really need a dirtbag leftie over there! Hope you'll do more than 'just' TACIS. Stay strong! 🤘

Hello! I actually follow you on my private account, but this one is a little more generally accessible. I've been keeping chickens for about seven years very successfully, and we've been working on our small homestead for about three years so if you have any questions about chickens please feel free to reach out! I might be able to help with other things too, but those at least I can definitely help with! Additionally, I'm sure you've already at least heard of it, but I hope you will look at using permaculture on your future homestead~

Don't blame you. I'm currently flunking out of school because of the ridiculous transphoia and lack of general health care here in South Carolina. Whether or not I manage to appeal so I don't lose my financial aid, I'm quitting school until I can get the fuck out of this country. It's the only way I can think of that I'll be able to complete my MDiv so I can be one of the few people in ministry who actually gives a fuck about people.

Sounds like you're going through a really hard time right now. I'm so sorry. I hope you have a therapist and access to medication. Medication did me a world of good when I was in a state of mind that sounds very similar to yours.

do whatever ya wanna make, I like watching ya anyways and joining for streams

Honestly as an IT person with all sorts of dumb computer issues these are the things to not miss. Reset the CMOS first, sometimes this fixes it (cosmic rays baybee) Then start pulling hardware to a minimum bootable config and if you can maybe test that GPU in another PC to confirm/eliminate that problem Bios flashback if you have it (cosmic rays 2 electric boogaloo. Very small chance this fails AND screws ur mobo, save it for the last easy step.) Then if no dice comes the real troubleshooting, and I resent every single time I did the real troubleshooting for no reason. Reverse triage, only do the easiest patients first and move on to more severe cases. Not being condescending i can't count the number of times I needed this dumb reminder.

Completely fair to not wanting to be the factory default trans voice tons of cis people wanna hound about trans things. I want to see you be able to make more fulfilling content. Ill be following the new channel and keep checking in here too ^-^

So happy for you. Hope you find more joy. 🤍🩷🩵

Olympia wa is a transutopa . So are many other places in the west coast. Safe travels. Good luck with the big move.

I know the feeling of being seen as one thing and nothing more.. 😢 you do you 🎉❤ But a good thing in the trans stuff area. Denmark er opening a new gender treatment clinic because they see the need for it. No one are complaining, no one are trying to shut it down! ❤🎉 I know it is not US og UK, but i live in Denmark and this is one of many small steps we see that we are getting more rights

Honestly this is a really good direction to go, can you also add automatic upload to Odysee so your content is still if KZread decide to censor, plus I will follow you there :) Also the new direction will be better for winning people over from the far right. Because it shows them in a way they understand that we are human just like them

@LuxanderReal

Ай бұрын

I'm not familiar with that platform!

@holliluc3497

Ай бұрын

@@LuxanderReal That is very understandable, when people take a stand against KZread they generally move to Rumble because Rumble pays them to do that. But like all big businesses Rumble will eventually do what KZread does. Because capitalism does what it does due to the systems not because the right or wrong capitalists are in charge. Odysee is systematically different. And it needs more left wing creators. And it is easy, at least I think it is easy, when you create your account it asks you to add your KZread details, so it can sync your KZread uploads into Odysee so you don't need to go through the effort of uploading twice. But I am not a content creator so I have never gone through the KZread syncing process

We need to take a cue from ACTUP

did you delete that other rant video you made?

@LuxanderReal

Ай бұрын

Yeah

Im not you but Im trans I just tuned out, I dont know anything more Dont watch the news and pretty much stopped being involved in social media, have discord and youtube and thats all Its a lot better for me than swimming in the misery non stop, its fries your brain Not much else to say, just hope youre doing great : )

I had already stopped following your political content closely, and im already subbed to the other chanel. lets get this oasis running

couldn't find the channel

@LuxanderReal

Ай бұрын

Link in description

@nobody8328

Ай бұрын

I had a hard time, too. It's almost like youtube doesn't want us to see it 😒 There's a link in the description of this video 😊

sounds fun

Trans stuff is important but all I can think of now is Palestine. So I understand why things like climate change are also more pertinent. Take care Lux and good luck moving.

@LuxanderReal

Ай бұрын

Palestine is probably the thing that broke me and made me finally accept that we have no real control over any of this politics stuff. I've seen things I can never forget, and our allegedly democratic president just... keeps sending them money to destroy lives

If you get enough of US, just move to Denmark 😘 we are fucked up too.. just in a totally different way.. 😅 but we have better rights, and you would not get declined for a job over appearances. Gender, believe, chronic, or illness' and much more are illegal to ask in job interview, your employer cannot tell your coworkers unless you explicitly have said yes.

@alligatorsarecoming78

Ай бұрын

Looking for any social science PhDs over there for jobs other than academic ones? I might consider it. I don't like teaching, though. Just research.

I thought the video you mentioned was really important. I'm sad that so many people completely misconstrued your point.

Just subscribed to your other channel, and will definitely be watching. Im concerned but also cautiously optimistic (or at least trying to be 😅) that yes things will be hard, but if we put our heads together we can support each other and learn/share off the grid survival skills.

It feels good to know I'm not the only one who feels this way.