so my eldest brother, who is a moron, has been playing soldier with his moron friends in the deserts of texas for the last year preparing for the collapse of civilization if biden won (lol). they were burying food and ammo stashes out in the desert, running drills, crazy stuff— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) February 16, 2021
You know, I think prepping in theory is good. Yeah there's of course a lot of reactionaries among preppers but quite a few people all across the political spectrum. Especially if you view prepping in terms of your community and not just yourself. I got into it myself a bit. Half the fun was just thinking through scenarios and what you need and how you would respond.
But the very first, basic, 1A scenario every prepper thinks through is "what if the power goes out for an extended period of time". The fact that they didn't have a manual can opener is really, I don't know the right word here. Just your typical reactionary prepper who thinks 90% of prepping is guns and tacticool gear.
Right wingers into prepping, yes. I think there's a place for prepping on a small scale i.e. if you're snowed in without electricity for a long time. And I think there's also a place for left wing prepping too.
Yeah, the story is funny and all, but the can opener thing is pushing it a little too far for me. Ive met the "suburbanite who found out about prepping in the last month and blew several grand on tacticool shit" type, but not having a can opener is like telling me they don't have a flashlight or bottled water
In New Zealand, this sort of stuff, like Preparation, food supply, how to engage with emergency response, community prep and mutual aid etc is all taught in "Civil Defence" classes in primary and early intermediate school, along with flood, earthquake, volcano, tsunami, and other basic disaster prep and response.
Coincidentally, NZ has 20 Covid deaths, 4 orders of magnitude lower per capita than the USA.
A lot of reactionaries just want to live in a Fallout game so they can unironically be the NCR or Brotherhood of Steel or whatever other cringe faction that just looks cool, has guns, and is functionally identical to bandits.
You know, I think prepping in theory is good. Yeah there's of course a lot of reactionaries among preppers but quite a few people all across the political spectrum. Especially if you view prepping in terms of your community and not just yourself. I got into it myself a bit. Half the fun was just thinking through scenarios and what you need and how you would respond.
But the very first, basic, 1A scenario every prepper thinks through is "what if the power goes out for an extended period of time". The fact that they didn't have a manual can opener is really, I don't know the right word here. Just your typical reactionary prepper who thinks 90% of prepping is guns and tacticool gear.
Prepping is really only about stopping the “urban hordes” that want to steal your panini maker.
Right wingers into prepping, yes. I think there's a place for prepping on a small scale i.e. if you're snowed in without electricity for a long time. And I think there's also a place for left wing prepping too.
I'm pretty sure this story is made up. Anyone who does canning has a manual can opener.
Also, the account is a shitlib. I think they're just getting off on the idea of Texans suffering right now.
Yeah, the story is funny and all, but the can opener thing is pushing it a little too far for me. Ive met the "suburbanite who found out about prepping in the last month and blew several grand on tacticool shit" type, but not having a can opener is like telling me they don't have a flashlight or bottled water
In New Zealand, this sort of stuff, like Preparation, food supply, how to engage with emergency response, community prep and mutual aid etc is all taught in "Civil Defence" classes in primary and early intermediate school, along with flood, earthquake, volcano, tsunami, and other basic disaster prep and response.
Coincidentally, NZ has 20 Covid deaths, 4 orders of magnitude lower per capita than the USA.
A lot of reactionaries just want to live in a Fallout game so they can unironically be the NCR or Brotherhood of Steel or whatever other cringe faction that just looks cool, has guns, and is functionally identical to bandits.