Comment on Preppers helped fulfill their own prophecy
basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
As a leftist with a prepper mentality, this is not blanket true. But many preppers are just excecionally dramatic right wingers, so I’ll give you half a point.
RedditIsALostCause@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also a left-winger who has adopted some prepping mentality and created a “go-bag.”
In my opinion, “proper” prepping is/should be more about educating oneself, i.e. basic survival skills, navigational skills, how to find food and drinkable water, and if possible how to grow your own food and build a shelter — in essence boy scout stuff.
Once you know about the basics of survival, acquiring some essential tools (think axe, water purification tablets, and fire starter), and creating a rendezvous point with your loved ones is all that’s left.
The, usually right-winger, “preppers” are in reality just apocalypse fetishists. They buy MREs in bulk, create basements to bug-out in, and buy a stockpile of guns as if the concept of “community” will no longer exist in collapse scenario. They alienate everyone around them and focus entirely on the survival of their nuclear family with the insane belief that they could survive in a bunker under their home until chaos blows over.
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 4 weeks ago
That’s exactly it.
I prep by stocking rice and beans and water and basic tools and supplies.
MAGA preps by stocking ammo and guns and concrete bunkers.
That is NOT the same.
If shit goes down I’m going to be out there helping my neighbors, not shooting them. WTF MAGA?