Ask Lemmy

All the precautions I already take being a woman, but dial them up to 11 and mentally prepare myself for the wave of hate aimed at people who believe women are human beings worthy of rights and autonomy. E.g., hoard birth control, stop using period tracking apps, continue using Signal or look for something even better for encrypted messaging, maybe stop sleeping with fertile men altogether.

Maintain my current position that isolationism does not serve the US well and that the genocide in Gaza by the Israeli government is bad. Also maintain my feelings of uselessness at being unable to affect any amount of change on the above.

Adjust investment strategy of my 401k. There's not much in there, I want it to count for as much as possible.

Go through a phase of low/no contact with certain family members. I get that a normal presidency might come with a bit of good-natured gloating from the family members backing the winning candidate. I don't want to sit through a repeat of my aunt telling her gay nephew to his face the things Trump is going to do to fix his perversions. If I recall, there was some tie to the Michelle Obama healthy school lunches initiatives now correlating to my cousin being gay because of course she would cling to that sort of absurdity. "The school pizza they were already on the normal menu is now counting as a serving of vegetables because of the tomato-based sauce. Poor Billy, that acknowledgment of vegetables turned him gay".