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Someone needs to summarize the history of Gunkid and the tactical wheelbarrow. Entertaining stuff although apparently they are in jail now.

bena 4y ago
I looked it up and man. Survivalist/doomsday preppers are a special bunch. And even they thought he was crazy. I was also introduced to a new term TEOTWAWKI or The End Of The World As We Know It. Which I find a hilarious event to try and prepare for. Because everyone assumes that the end of the world as we know it will descend into something predictable. Usually some sort of Mad Max style dystopia or like The Road or The Walking Dead. No. The end of the world as we know it is a wholly unpredictable event. We won't know what it looks like until it happens. And there's no guarantee of survival. For example, if the event causes us to lose our magnetosphere, it just doesn't matter what you've done. We're all dead. All doomsday/survivalist prepping is preparing for a single type of event. An event that will be largely corrected by other people. As I've never seen preppers super concerned with agriculture. It's all bunkers, weapons, and non-perishable food.
- thatguy0900 4y ago
  If we hit another great depression the people with a bunker filled with dry food will be feeling pretty smug. Not sure the guns will help much though.
  - fallingknife 4y ago
    In any scenario where food is short a gun would be essential. If I have a gun and no food, and you have food and no gun, pretty soon I will have food and a gun and you will have neither.
    - thatguy0900 4y ago
      That didn't really pan out in the first great depression did it? Or were there roving biker gangs raiding undefended homesteads
      - fallingknife 4y ago
        Weren't really people starving to death then.
- aerostable_slug 4y ago
  You've never seen real, serious preppers. The real ones absolutely think about food production, water, livestock, waste management, energy, health care, etc. Many of them already practice what they prepare for by having productive gardens (as one example). You might not know that the person who grew the prize-winning squash at the local fair this year also regularly goes to Gunsite and has a solid grasp of wilderness medicine. The folks down the way who get their protein from hunting might not be hipster-hunters, but instead people who have already ingrained into their lifestyle traits that are handy if societal support structures break down. A surprising number of these "real" preppers are not politically motivated in the way some might think — I've met more than a few that have experienced "Life During Wartime" so to speak and simply don't choose to believe it can't happen here.

bena 4y ago

I looked it up and man. Survivalist/doomsday preppers are a special bunch. And even they thought he was crazy. I was also introduced to a new term TEOTWAWKI or The End Of The World As We Know It. Which I find a hilarious event to try and prepare for. Because everyone assumes that the end of the world as we know it will descend into something predictable. Usually some sort of Mad Max style dystopia or like The Road or The Walking Dead. No. The end of the world as we know it is a wholly unpredictable event. We won't know what it looks like until it happens. And there's no guarantee of survival. For example, if the event causes us to lose our magnetosphere, it just doesn't matter what you've done. We're all dead. All doomsday/survivalist prepping is preparing for a single type of event. An event that will be largely corrected by other people. As I've never seen preppers super concerned with agriculture. It's all bunkers, weapons, and non-perishable food.

thatguy0900 4y ago
If we hit another great depression the people with a bunker filled with dry food will be feeling pretty smug. Not sure the guns will help much though.
- fallingknife 4y ago
  In any scenario where food is short a gun would be essential. If I have a gun and no food, and you have food and no gun, pretty soon I will have food and a gun and you will have neither.
  - thatguy0900 4y ago
    That didn't really pan out in the first great depression did it? Or were there roving biker gangs raiding undefended homesteads
    - fallingknife 4y ago
      Weren't really people starving to death then.
aerostable_slug 4y ago
You've never seen real, serious preppers. The real ones absolutely think about food production, water, livestock, waste management, energy, health care, etc. Many of them already practice what they prepare for by having productive gardens (as one example). You might not know that the person who grew the prize-winning squash at the local fair this year also regularly goes to Gunsite and has a solid grasp of wilderness medicine. The folks down the way who get their protein from hunting might not be hipster-hunters, but instead people who have already ingrained into their lifestyle traits that are handy if societal support structures break down. A surprising number of these "real" preppers are not politically motivated in the way some might think — I've met more than a few that have experienced "Life During Wartime" so to speak and simply don't choose to believe it can't happen here.