harvey prepper

HARVEY PREPPER

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This is one of the downsides of Moore’s Law.  Now that video cameras are way under $100 every swinging cheese dingus dill hole asswhore is on YouTube acting like a survivalist expert.  Good crapping gravy, I thought print sites were thicker than a hound dogs ticks with idiots on the soapbox.  Here I am, minding my own damn business, and I see something about an update on Texas.  I think, okay, nobody has been talking about Hurricane Harvey and the aftereffects, so I watch this seething turd.

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In a nutshell, since people from other states donated to the charity ( and you can be sure whatever mouth breather was in charge skimmed off a big chunk in administration fees-that means “I’m getting a big ass salary to push papers, bitches! ) and the Cajon Navy lent a hand, that means people are good and helpful in emergencies and any prepper who thinks it will be dog eat dog and red in tooth and claw is paranoid and delusional.  WHAT???  What planet was this guy from?  I mean, yes, Planet Texas is a very weird place, but this guy immigrated there. 

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Literally, he isn’t a native Texan.  He was real proud to be one now, which is understandable, since even Texas is an improvement from Planet Dumbass.  Sorry, Texas dudes, but even accounting for East L.A. ( erroneously named “Las Vegas” ) Nevada is a much better place to hang your hat.  I’ve lived in both, and Texas is what I imagine Sarajevo was like twenty odd years ago.  Different cultures mashed together under an alias nation state, waiting to detonate.  Anyway, Texas is merely dysfunctional whereas California, my hatching place, has been a Failed State for generations.  I’m not judging.

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So, according to The Clueless One, Hurricane Harvey proved preppers needn’t fear violence after a disaster.  Evidently, he doesn’t get out much in his new state, because if he didn’t stay cocooned in his Whitebread neighborhood, only venturing out in his forty thousand dollar pickup truck ( one assumes with a ten gallon hat ), he would know that in the best of times his Black neighbors to the east wish him harm and his little brown buddies to the south don’t much care for his pasty white ass either and would cave in his skull for the five bucks in coins in his ashtray if the death penalty wasn’t so freely administered there.

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They are Texans too, right?  He has no clue of inequality, drug and illegal smuggling, racial disharmony or the economic collapse, does he?  That is BEFORE any natural disaster.  Texans have always thought in terms of Big.  Big ass terrible weather every season.  Big natural disasters.  Big oil discoveries.  And now, big ass populations.  Only Texans would think an overpopulated area mostly run out of oil and irrigated water is a great place to park for prepping.  So, big dumb asses also Texas does have.  Harvey is the height of prepping problems?  Really?  Nothing worse is going to happen?

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See, right there is the main issue I have with short term preppers.  They fail to see anything wrong systematically.  Nothing wrong with the economy as long as they have a job.  No racial issues as long as they live in a Yuppie neighborhood.  The US used to be the global empire so it always will be.  We only need to vote in the right guy to solve all problems.  Technology has always and will always solve all problems.  Etcetera.  I could go on for articles, but the short summation is that when you only plan for bad weather, you make bad plans.

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Why wouldn’t a generator solve all prepper problems, right?  It solves the hurricane grid down issue.  Why can’t MRE’s be the solution to all prepper food storage?  It works for hurricanes!  Why wouldn’t an AR be in every preppers arsenal?  It keeps the looters away after a hurricane.  Do you see where I’m going with this?  When you own a hammer, everything looks like a nail.  And when your prepper guru only preps for hurricanes then all his tools are for solving natural disaster problems.  Since he ain’t prepped for civilization collapse, denial and hubris solve that particular problem.

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Now, I shouldn’t have an issue with this, you say.  Not all preppers are survivalists.  Not all short term preppers think they should be long term preppers.  No, I have no issue with individuals prepping as they see fit.  Pessimists will always assume the worst regardless and optimists will always be cheerful no matter the evidence to the contrary.  I understand I’m just as biased due to my temperament.  What I find unacceptable is when those supposedly teaching others make blanket statements about your safety based on wildly optimistic assumptions. 

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You say, hey, get a case of MRE’s and a generator and you’ll be fine.  Okay.  Anyone with a lick of sense knows they need more than that, even if all they do is read/watch the mainstream media.  Infrastructure interruptions are now in long weeks or short months duration, much longer than in the past.  That is kind of an obvious lie that doesn’t harm any but the idiots who deserve to die anyway.  But when you are commenting on human nature, and it is logically flawed, I feel you are being more of a danger.  Most people are living in bubbles.  Some are living in even narrower horizons, hemmed in by social media and electronic devices.  Most people who would become preppers are divorced from most reality.  They have no clues about sociology or anthropology, evolution or biology.

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I mean, duh, right?  PC bitches think women are equal to men physically and share their mental processing.  Bigger dumb asses would be hard to find.  You must carefully explain to most people the reality of how humans treat each other.  And optimism plays a VERY small part.  When you think you are an expert in human interactions, and get it wrong, that is very harmful advice.  Certain Idaho Yuppie Scum Guru’s are clueless even as they pretend otherwise, and short term preppers are incapable of comprehending this as well. 

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If you really understood people, you wouldn’t be just short term prepping, would you?  Yes, it is great there are Natural Disaster Preppers out there.  Every extra person staying home and fed and watered is one less idiot taxing the collapsed infrastructure.  I just think they do the rest of us a grave disservice once they start opening their mouths.  It might be well meant advice but it is flawed and fatal nonetheless.

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