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Chainfire

(17,536 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 01:56 PM Apr 2020

Zombie Apocalypse

I have read posts from preppers, writing for years about the coming Zombie Apocalypse. If you look at some of the many films and stills of the current "liberate" protests, you see the zombies, and they are coming for you! The walking deadheads.

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sop

(10,167 posts)
3. I always thought the thing with these post-apocalyptic preppers was retreating into their bunkers
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 02:12 PM
Apr 2020

and caves, to be totally self-sufficient, live off the land, hunt squirrels, eat berries and ride out the coming zombie storm completely isolated from the rest of the world. This pandemic should be their wet dream, right?

Finally the opportunity presents itself to put their live-off-the-land ethos into practice. And what do they do? Go downtown and demand the whole economic system they've been railing against for years be reopened.

Chainfire

(17,536 posts)
5. You have it partly right
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 03:28 PM
Apr 2020

What you have not mentioned is the number of guns and the quantity of ammo in the hands of our zombies. Let me assure you that the AR-15 type weapons and the high capacity semi auto pistols that you are seeing on the capitol steps around the country aren't worth a damn for shooting squirrels. Those guns are meant to shoot YOU. Part of the survival plan in the great SHFT is to loot what they need from unarmed or under-armed victims and settle imagined scores with the people.

Many of the prepper-types have longed for the day that society would break down offering them a chance to get rid of their perceived enemies. Their enemies list is nearly identical to the Nazis list, but perhaps this time, liberals are at the top. They want to take their country back, your part in their plans is that of a target.

Keep in mind that there are 11.5 million hunters in our Country and an estimate of 343 million guns in civilian hands. Two million guns have been legally sold since the virus has struck. All of the major ammo sellers have sold out of "defensive" ammo. The right wingers aren't going to be caught unarmed in the social collapse they see coming.

The people you see in the "liberate" demonstrations going on today are certainly not rocket scientists, but what they lack in intelligence, they make up for by being belligerent. The have the full support of their president. It is not just going back to work they want, it is minority control. You better believe that they are serious.

Before someone chimes in that they are an insignificant minority, I want you to look back. In the beginning, the Germans dismissed the Nazis as an inconsequential cult. Even though Hitler told them what he intended in Mien Kamph, they ignored the warnings. The Jews calculated that Hitler's rants were hyperbole. By the time the German nation realized that they had granted total power to the Nazis and the industrial giants that backed them, it was far too late to fix the problem. It took a hundred million deaths to correct their error.

Human nature has not changed in the last 80 years, and Americans aren't magically protected from the rise of Fascism. We may soon be in a similar economic condition that the Germans found themselves in in the 1930s. The Germans were willing to hand power to anyone who promised to get them back to work and make their nation great again. Things got out of hand quickly.....

sop

(10,167 posts)
6. You're correct. This collection of misfits seems bound together by their love of military weaponry,
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 04:06 PM
Apr 2020

an intense hatred of their perceived enemies (there are too many groups to mention here, but the list includes most anyone who supports liberal ideals), and their long-held desire to return to a time when the country was majority white, christian and Euro-centric.

What is most concerning is not the pandemic, though it is a human tragedy, but the potential for economic collapse. That's when these folks will seize the opportunity to cause the most damage. I think Trump is looking to exploit that scenario, and cling to power.

Chainfire

(17,536 posts)
7. My question is
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 09:38 AM
Apr 2020

Will the people of Texas vote again for a ticket that includes this maniac?

What a backward-assed way of looking at the science. This man is either a damn fool, or totally lacking in empathy; either way, he is unfit to have any position of power, and probably unfit to breathe.

I remember seeing a series of photographs, early in the Vietnam war, of a monk, kneeling, dousing himself with gasoline and striking a match as a protest to the continuing war. That kind of dedication you can respect. Now if the Lt. Gov. would do the same to demonstrate that he believes what he says, then I would be impressed with his honesty and integrity even if I would not be impressed with his intelligence.

What he really means is that it is noble for you to die to protect the rich.

Come on asshole, lead from the front!

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