According to the news source, some of the posts stated, “I am sorry. If you support the Democratic Party, I will not help you” and “The problem is that I know which of you supports the Democratic Party, and I will not help you survive the end of days.”
In another post, according to WHIO, Rodgers wrote that people would need to “provide proof of who you voted for” before rendering aid.
Prepper failing to understand that his dumbass bravado is gonna lead to him getting clapped by some 12 year old's pressure cooker <72 hours into any sort of apocalyptic event
If it's truly the end of days everyone is gonna learn to trust absolutely no random person whatsoever within like 12 hours and it's gonna turn into battle royale hide and seek, not Fallout. These guys are preparing for something that just won't happen
If it’s truly the end of days everyone is gonna learn to trust absolutely no random person whatsoever within like 12 hours
If other disasters and breakdowns of social order are anything to go by, not really. Communities tend to band together in those cases.
Murdering your neighbors to eat what's in their fridges: Extremely high risk, best possible outcome is a few days of food.
Working with your neighbors to establish mutual defense, food production, healthcare, etc: Lower risk than anything else, possibility to replicate most of those things society had been providing.
Although there's definitely a cultural aspect, Hurricane Katrina had a wealthy gated community with dudes driving around in pickups murdering any "looters" from flooded areas and police ambushed and murdered a family walking by the Danziger Bridge. Even in those cases though, this was organized violence as opposed to a free-for-all.
None of that is end of days. I live 10 blocks from George Floyd Square and that wasn't end of days, but still, they looted the 5th precinct armory and people were dressed up as police as a gag, sideshows at Lake and Nicollet with postal vans and cop cars.
Couple thousand people going crazy and independently shooting up random places election night to try to stop the entire election, that's still not end of days but getting closer. Couple notches past that everyone is gonna lose their fucking minds
The community coming together to burn the police station after the police murdered someone in broad daylight and wasn't brought to justice isn't exactly the chaotic scene you're suggesting.
Couple thousand people going crazy and independently shooting up random places
Why would they shoot up random places? Why would this result in everyone else murdering people at random instead of implementing mutual defense?
I pointed out that that wasn't end of days. Katrina wasn't end of days. End of days is end of days. The apocalypse, which hasn't happened yet, and probably won't for a while. Dunno how that's hard for you to comprehend. I was emphasizing in a state of lawlessness it isn't too difficult to just impersonate someone else entirely and thus trust no one
No. My position is that preppers are dumb as hell because they romanticize some sort of apocalyptic environment where people will somehow act towards them without fear and with civility, and they can just roam around in broad daylight with their big swinging dick pea shooter of a rifle and not worry about drawing attention to themselves from every person within a quarter mile radius if they use it. Don't get me started on diesel generators, may as well just spray paint on the house 'if you ran out of water just observe'. They're blithe idiots. Anyone who thinks the apocalypse is gonna be fun is a fucking moron who did no research into what that even means. Cannibalism, anyone? Fuck that
Edit: Pissing off the bonehead preppers I guess. Have fun walking into fishing line and shit. Protec yo neck
I think original dude I was arguing with was hung up on 'end of days' because they started mentioning (relatively) small stuff like Katrina. It's an apocryphal phrase that only an absolute tool would use in the context of being able to provide help. It refers to the time leading up to rapture where literally everyone dies. Like, meteor hits earth and deletes China. End of days. Helllooooo nobody will survive, nobody is a badass, nobody will need help, everyone will panic and turn on each other, an AR15 and a punisher tattoo means nothing lol