My favorite story is about this Kentucky QAnon politician who bought a $2 million bunker McMansion. Doomsday never came, so he tried to sell it. No one was buying it, and he tried to renovate it to make it more valuable. One night, he and his daughter were sleeping at the bunker McMansion when ANOTHER QAnon conspiracy theorist, completely unrelated to them, scaled the mansion and broke into it because he thought doomsday was near and saw the bunker listed on online. He encountered the daughter walking in the house and shot and killed her.
Kentucky QAnon politician
What's his name? I want to google that story. I love stories that are filmic. And surreal stories are my favorite.
C. Wesley Morgan: https://archive.is/TQDJR
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“My feelings were that we were going to have civil unrest because there was so much going on with Obama,” Mr. Morgan said. He believed that people were going to rise up against the attempts to overhaul health care and restrict guns, and that societal collapse would soon follow. He envisioned “roving bands of gangs” hunting for food and necessities in the aftermath. He bought riot gear, bulletproof vests and a small arsenal of firearms, so that “if you had to engage a band of marauders, you would have a chance to save your family.”
The keystone of his survival plan was what lay underneath: a shelter 26 feet underground, beneath a 39-inch solid ceiling. It contains 2,000 square feet of bedrooms and common space along with a stocked food pantry, an air filtration system and two escape tunnels, one of them 100 feet long. The company that installed the shelter suggested that Mr. Morgan keep quiet about it, because “if anything ever happened, there’d be people that try to take the bunker.”
Mr. Morgan quickly considered his other guns — another pistol in the drawer, the 12-gauge shotgun in the closet, the AR-15 in the guest bedroom — but saw his cellphone on the nightstand. He grabbed it and called the police. “See, that’s another thing I hate myself for,” he said. If he had just gotten another gun, he could have killed the intruder there and then.
He instead speculated about political forces that might have it in for him and his family. He talked about hired assassins and past C.I.A. experiments with brainwashing, and suggested that a violent attack on the home of a Second Amendment champion like himself had all the signs of an operation to justify more gun control. “I just think that I was chosen to be a false flag,” he said. This made a lot more sense to him than murdering a family to get to their bunker. Still, he could not shake the thought that his decision to enter politics had been his fatal error. If he had kept out of public life, neither his politics nor his bunker would have been so widely known.
This is profoundly sad in a way I'm at a loss to describe. Goddamn.
Bidet doomsday
look I was scared the first time I pressed that button too, but it's not going to end the world.
If anything bidets are that shimmering sliver of hope that humanity might actually figure itself out and we may some day have a future.
If everyone had a bidet, there would be no wars.
@ButtBidet@hexbear.net, InevitableSwing is providing yet more evidence that your namesake is indeed bourgeois decadence. Are you similarly prepared for the end?
Furiously inviting my comrades from the bidet Discord Server to flood your DMs. Say goodbye. both of you.
this is like a 2nd hand experience from years ago, so the truth is probably buried under bullshit, but anyway....
so this guy i've known since high school has always been an odd job dude to eek by. anyway, for a time he was apparently part of some federal sub-sub-sub-sub contract crew that would do some kind of cleaning/maintenance on old decommissioned missile silos out west. i don't remember half the details (i think the pay sucked for what you were doing, fyi), but i want to say they would be on the job for like a week at a time at a site and that many if not all of these old deep sites have crazy flooding problems. even in arid places. like there are supposed to be sump pumps running to keep water from collecting, but when there's no one around for years at a time, shit breaks. and the water was of course all fucked up like it is with any hole dug into the ground of significant depth (mine wastewater, HIGHLY reduced soils touching oxygen after billions of years of NO oxygen = acid acid acid), so it was like a whole deal to get that out in a way that did or at least appeared to comply with regulations.
anyway, doomsday bunkers are insane and it's kind of wild how people assume that living in a deep hole in the ground would be a lasting survival strategy, when the last like several millions of years of mammalian biology and hundreds of thousands of years of homonid life has been preserved by doing exactly NOT that.
the point being, if you want to be a cool subterranean morlock type of guy (relatable), stay much closer to the surface.
If there's ever a horrific pandemic that kills - for example - 2/3rds of humanity - I want to be killed in an early riot. I get smashed on the head and it's quickly over for me. My desire for a quick (ideally painless death) goes for WW III too. I'd like to be at ground zero. I'm alive. And then I'm not.
I think a lot of people (in particular Americans) - really can't imagine a hell on earth. They think of themselves like some badass lead characters in The Walking Dead. Living is tough but life finds a way. In reality - they are like nearly everybody else. We are creatures of the modern world. We're lucky we don't have to hunt squirrels and rabbits so we don't starve to death. We don't have to scramble and fight off the elements so we don't die of exposure. We don't have to dink fetid water that might make us sick or kill us because we have no choice and we are dying from dehydration.
And - of course - we don't live in a miasmatic, dark (the genny's not working right) hole in the ground and because we need to conserve electricity we are eating canned food right out of the can. Can after can after can.
i'll probably be out like a candle in the wind #RIPMarilyn, but my mission would be to make it to the early riot days where scores are being settled. wanna make sure former scumbag bosses and landlords get got.
My POV needs a rethink. I need to help settle score first. And then be hopeful for a quick end.
