2/ This. Any time I post about ANYTHING I get a half dozen griefers "well, ok, maybe you've got food but if there's a disaster / war / etc a militia / warband / etc is just going to steal it from you, lol, good luck, you're gonna get raped and killed"https://twitter.com/pozorvlak/status/1327928846809767936 …
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3/ Obviously saying such a thing to some internet stranger does not constitute useful advice (not that "lol, give up" could ever be useful), so why do they do it? Extinguishing / sharing anxiety, I assume. Some kid in the city or suburbs is upset with his own precarious life >
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4/ ...dislikes the implicit hierarchy where some people are more prepared and some are less, and so he tries to erase that distinction to lessen his own status anxiety / survival anxiety by trying to round them all in to the same bin.
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5/ This is basically identical to Sailor's Law of Female Journalism: low status (i.e. ugly) women frame things so that they're not low status. TJIC's law of male non-preppers: the unprepared frame things so that they're no worse off than people with skills and tools.
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6/ Yep. I'm not prepared bc I think a nuclear war is likely. I'm prepared bc (a) it's fun, and (b) ice storm and 1-week power outage / unemployment / recession / etc is likely.https://twitter.com/mamalionpack/status/1328033087196950528 …
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7/ Indeed. In the best case scenario, EVERYONE is fine. In the worst case scenario, EVERYONE is !@#-ed. It's the middle scenarios that separate the groups.https://twitter.com/mamalionpack/status/1328033087196950528 …
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