https://twitter.com/rabbitfordinner/status/1740609135044083919
this mf thinks we still have medieval walled cities, like dude, you can literally just... walk out of the city. I mean, yeah, you can indeed disrupt logistics, but there's a pretty big gap between "trucks can't get in to deliver supplies" and "entire population is trapped inside of the city". Also railway transport isn't real I guess
also love the idea of completely destroying supply routes into the city with... backhoes and gravel. I guess city folk don't have any construction equipment of their own to clear and repair their roads. Also I guess the roads are just going to be conveniently completely empty for however many hours it takes you to block them, because, uh...
do an area study 
The idea that white rural chuds completely control the food supply is laughable. The people who are actually growing and picking the food are the same ones chuds cry about “invading the US”.
Food Production is pretty much thought of as a transient property where if you live near it, it means somehow you're part of it. Pretty global trend, too, real odd shit. Whenever I press these people on it it's usually revealed they think of themselves as infrastructure providers for actual farmers by way of making sure there is enough money to maintain roads or keep a supermarket afloat or something
The obvious solution is for urban groups to offer material support to rural farm workers to "encourage" a "change in management" from the current rural farm owners to rural farm worker co-ops.
Migrant workers are just secret white guys. When the civil war starts, they just rip off their mask and reveal themselves as aryans in hiding
"I'm hungry Papa, why can't we leave the city to try to find some food in the country side ?"
"The roads, son... they have done a number on them. So many potholes. We are doomed."
"But can't we just wal..."
"POTHOLES, son. It's hopeless. Time to eat the neighbours"
This guy sat in traffic during rush hour one time and decided he could do a Bigger Than 9-11 by spilling some dirt onto I-45
He kind of has a point in the carbrained sense where the only transportation method is car. Not in the civil war style scenario but otherwise you'd need surprisingly few people to basically throw an entire cities car transportation network into a multi day gridlock
you'd need surprisingly few people to basically throw an entire cities car transportation network into a multi day gridlock
Back in 2006 some students from Georgia Tech shut down Atlanta for 12 hours by driving the speed limit, side-by-side, around the circular I-285 Atlanta bypass during rush hour. Got traffic to snake all the way around the circle and form a car ouroborous. They tried to charge the kids with conspiracy & domestic terrorism & shit at first, because 2006, but most they could get them for was obstruction of traffic.
So yeah, proof of concept at least.
Lmao, took them all of 4 people to do it.
But yeah, pretty much. Disrupt traffic flow at a major intersection a bit by your usual non-enforced traffic infractions like double parking inconveniently or missing much or all of the green phase due to being on your smartphone or similar, 3 other people do the same at feeding arterial roads for like 10 minutes until all the impatient carbrains start trying to cheat their way onto non-cleared intersections and ta-da, gridlock that's now become a massive headache to unfuck. x10 if you can convince someone to get into a minor fender bender after it and then start arguing and taking lots and lots of photos on the road. Takes like 4 guys with all of the conviction of "maybe get a ticket" to pull it off, I'm genuinely surprised no one ever tried it.
There's some push button crosswalks around a major bottleneck bridge where I am. I'm certain 3 people just crossing the streets over and over would bring traffic to a halt
Looks like AJC doesn't have a working archive, dead links. But i did find the student film they made about doing it.
this is less an indictment of cities than it is of cars
This is my favorite take. Literally living in looney tunes world. I feel like this would be a felix bit. You’d think for a people who have their entire lives revolve around cars, they’d have a better understanding of how roads work
I have heard US infrastructure is terrible like this, with most cities only have one or two major ways out, but the key there is major. The major roads can get destroyed, but there are dozens and potentially hundreds of others. and if a road gets blocked, it could always...get cleared? Cities tend to have a lot of construction equipment around, or so I hear.
Even if we accept his ludicrous proposition as fact, he's forgetting that many cities have literal airports in the city limits. I suppose you could "gravel off" the runways, but how are you gonna get into the city if you just walled it off, stupid??
Incidentally, remember the anti-vaxx trucker rally where a bunch of white rural chuds with big machinery talked like they were gonna run down DC, but just drove around the beltway for 6 hours getting middle fingers and then left?
Classic "behold my brilliant plan that doesn't even anticipate the first reaction from the other side"
"yeah, so, they're gonna try to bring a tractor up here to dig up the roads or whatever. your job is to shoot anyone in a tractor approaching from that direction. Don't worry too much about it, though. We've got a concrete plant ready to fill a truck and patch the hole in less than 3 hours. This supply line is pretty important so we're not going to just throw up our hands and give up due to a little bit of infrastructure damage."
i'm gonna keep banging this drum:
If your food primarily comes from a grocery store, you live in a city.
"But we drive two hours to the grocery store, we're rural!"
Still go to the grocery, though. Nearly two centuries of industrialization has uprooted the systems and relationships of rural life, replacing it with urbanized market relations and the same dependency to industrially processed foodstuffs. In the United States today, there is not so much an "urban/rural" divide as there is a sliding scale of high-to-(very, very)low urban density. Pockets of rural life still exist, but they are the dwindling exception. By and large, our food comes in square plastic packages and we all pump petroleum to get to it. Some of us just go through more petrol in the process.
As for this tweet, there's a decent chance Wes here has mistaken their suburban satellite for a genuinely remote (but still undeniably urbanized) small town.
no bro I am extremely self-reliant and independent as I drive my Mexican-made "US" pick-up truck down the highway subsidized by folks in blue states/cities, burning oil from the middle-east to buy food harvested by migrant workers and shipped from around the world at the local sam's club. I am a rock, bro, I am an island unto myself
What if they dump boulders in the ocean though did you think of that? Fucking lib brain
dude has never taken the scenic route a single time in his entire life
Me when some random erects a 5 foot wall of gravel and wet concrete at the end of my block (I have literally never heard of a hammer)
Yes but at least in that movie Gotham is an island and the bridges and tunnels were blown up or blockaded
Also the NYPD/army were shooting anyone who tried to escape.
lmao dude so rural he doesn't even know cities are so big they have multiple exits per mile.
Blocking the only way into Washington DC
