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TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Could 2024 election cause society to collapse? Some preppers think so — and they're ready.

www.usatoday.com

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Could 2024 election cause society to collapse? Some preppers think so — and they're ready.

www.usatoday.com

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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A growing interest in preparing for society to collapse shows liberals and conservatives alike are pessimistic about the government's competence.

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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Preppers think everything will cause society to collapse. That’s exactly why they’re preppers.

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      Can I interest you in some silver? Act now, or something.

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        “Your money will be worthless! Buy gold now! And definitely don’t think about why we’d want to take your money and give you our gold if we think money is going to be worthless!”

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          “Hello, kind sir. I am starving to death and I see you are cooking a rat on a spit. Would you accept this pretty yellow rock for a piece of rat?”

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            You know what I think would be good to trade after the collapse? Dental hygiene stuff. If you’ve been eating canned beans and dead rats for a few months I bet you’d love to properly brush your teeth.

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          Ha ha. Right, they wouldn’t be letting go of their gold, would they?

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        Glenn Beck is that you? 2024 is your time to shine.

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    Preppers think that stocking up and hoarding supplies will somehow make them a one-man army capable of taking on the world if society were to collapse into some Mad-Max hellscape.

    What they don’t realize is that stockpiling those supplies is just going to make them a target. And I don’t care who you are: If you make yourself that big of a target, people will come for your stuff. En masse. And I don’t care if you’re armed to the teeth Schwarzenegger style: You cannot survive a horde of people who have decided they want your stuff and are ready to kill you for it.

    All preppers are doing is organizing a nice pile of supplies for the first group of people to come around and decide that his house would make a good place to camp.

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      You think they don’t want the chance to use their gun stockpile in an Alamo last stand type of outcome?

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    They’re not ready for shit

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    If an outlet asks a question like that, you can always answer it with No

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      That’s called Betteridge’s law of headlines and, while there are exceptions, it usually applies.

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    preppers have been prepping since forever. This movie although a comedy had inspiration from prepper types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Survivors_(1983_film)

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    Preppers will prepp

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      “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them.“

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    IS THE 2024 ELECTION GOING TO CAUSE SOCIETY TO COLLAPSE??

    no, probably not

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    USA == SOCIETY apparently

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