texasjim
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Post by texasjim on Mar 10, 2024 9:20:11 GMT 10
Prepping' for disaster diversifies as more Americans lose trust
Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the "Survival & Prepper Show" in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical kits, and every type of knife imaginable.
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bug
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Post by bug on Mar 10, 2024 9:51:53 GMT 10
Societies and cultures who fall into minority/out of power tend to fare very, very poorly in the long run. Best case scenario is economic hardship only. Worst case is genocide at the hands of the new ruling culture. We've seen this so many times in recent history. Given that western culture is very much on the decline in the US and is about to fall into minority status (if it hasn't happened already) and haven't had a government that represents them for a very long time, the growth of this kind of 'self preservation' mindset is hardly surprising.
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Post by malewithatail on Mar 10, 2024 10:26:35 GMT 10
One thing not being mentioned, by preppers and the mainstream, is the possibility of civil war. And its very real in America with the polarization of society.
MAD virtually assures that WW3 wont initially be fought with nukes, but a economic collapse is certainly a possibility, given the debt that western, Australia included, countries have accumulated, the perolous state of the Chinese economy, built as it is on manufacturing cheap stuff and investing in real estate that isn't wanted, along with the declining population.
Add the mess in Ukraine and Russia's increasing warnings to the west about interfering, the Brix countries economic woes and its a house of cards ready to collapse.
Time to redouble preps.
If you can't give up sex, get married and taper off.
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Post by Stealth on Mar 10, 2024 11:23:58 GMT 10
I don't know about, practically every prepping channel that I watch on YT at the moment is prepping for civil war as one of their primary concerns. At least, that's how it seems to me. They're all telling each other to circle the wagons and stay with your peers because stranger danger. I guess that's often their calling card anyway but in the past it's been "We could one day see a civil war here" and most of them now are saying "There will be civil war. Just try to stay out of it and keep your head down".
I hope it's not true for their sake, but I don't think that anyone in the prepping community is ignoring the danger. The average Joe though? They're probably concerned about it but haven't actually considered what a civil war would really look like for them personally.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 10, 2024 11:43:25 GMT 10
I kinda doubt there will be civil war such as witnessed in places like Bosnia. Perhaps what is more likely is what happened in to the US during late 60's at the height of vietnam war and civil rights upheavals? Lots of riots, arson, looting and bashings, but with police and military keeping things suppressed enough to prevent full blown anarchy.
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malewithatail
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Post by malewithatail on Mar 10, 2024 12:13:04 GMT 10
I think the military, police and so on will join in.
The average Joe is probably full steam just trying to make ends meet in the no inflation economy.
You never know what you don't know, you know?
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bug
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Post by bug on Mar 10, 2024 12:13:28 GMT 10
I don't know about, practically every prepping channel that I watch on YT at the moment is prepping for civil war as one of their primary concerns. At least, that's how it seems to me. They're all telling each other to circle the wagons and stay with your peers because stranger danger. I guess that's often their calling card anyway but in the past it's been "We could one day see a civil war here" and most of them now are saying "There will be civil war. Just try to stay out of it and keep your head down". I hope it's not true for their sake, but I don't think that anyone in the prepping community is ignoring the danger. The average Joe though? They're probably concerned about it but haven't actually considered what a civil war would really look like for them personally. YT promotes this deliberately through their algorithm. It's designed to create echo chambers. If it means turning people against each other to make money, they don't care. TikTok is even worse. The CCP promotes the most degenerate items it can on the app in the west, whilst in China that stuff is quickly blocked. Must be a coincidence.
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