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DEALING WITH NEIGHBORS

The government loves to frighten its citizens. Prior to the economy and hence the culture taking a big dump near sixty years ago, the government was actually a smallish affair ( although, granted, fighting the Cold War to keep industrial defense humming along-which was, ultimately, about as long term successful as our currently failed Consumer Economy ). They acted as final arbitrator enforcing cultural mores, which didn't require an untold amount of laws or regulations.

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But once the cultural fabric caught on fire during the peace protests and ghetto riots, the government had to step up its hate campaign past suppressing communists ( which, hindsight and all, they never should have stopped doing ), until eventually everything was regulated and outlawed and the citizens needed to cower in fright in order for the gov to have SOME control ( although not as much as they think ). SWAT teams delivering court summons, red flag laws and Domestic Violence threats, Waco and Ruby Ridge, all were used to try to scare compliance into the public.

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I won't even touch the racial or PC efforts, which are even worse than the few Jack Booted Thug moments that tax the forces of Kitten Stompers beyond their limited abilities. However, government attacks, like a traffic accident, as frightening as either prospect is, are low occurrence events. In other words, the odds are good, no matter how frightening the prospects, you most likely never come closer than slowing down passing the accident and being a lookie-lou. Obviously, you always practice Accident Avoidance. You don't make a fuss trying to incite violence against the government, and you drive defensively with a seat belt.

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Surely you are old enough to remember when you didn't have to wear a seat belt. But even if you didn't wear one around town, because the traffic was so light, and was NOT full of illegal immigrants without insurance ( enjoy paying $125 a month car insurance? Thank immigration ), you STILL most likely buckled up driving on the Interstate. It was just taking extra precautions. Then of course we were all judged Perpetual Infants unable to make our own choices and the government enjoyed moving violation ticket revenue too much, to pay for the SWAT team, and seat belt use became mandatory.

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My point here is that we don't need the law to tell us how to stay safe, but they do it anyway. It is part of putting the fear of God & Government into everyone. If the average law abiding citizen never had to deal with the police, because communities mostly dealt with their own problems ( how long ago was it that any pedophile priest, wife beater or creepey stalker was Vigilante Justice'ed? In most of our lifetimes, I'd wager ), then how can you spread fear? Answer, make the odds of being stopped for a traffic violation so high that every drive was stressful and anxious.

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After that, you start to hear boogie men at night ( 3 a.m. raids ) and imagine the worst ( concentration camps, cell phone spying, weather manipulation ). And as a bonus, THEN you start having unrealistic expectations. If you believe in HARP, contrails, smart phone triangulation and the like, then how far fetched is Fracking Forever, Equal EROI For Alternate Energy, UFO's or Voting Matters? Your perceptions have been altered and you are now partially brainwashed. And I'm agreeing with you, the worst things you fear from the government ARE true, plus you have no idea how much worse it actually is ( Epstein Didn't Kill Himself ).

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But you must retain perspective. At most, FLEA's are a fraction of one percent of the population, and like the infantry having far more logistics tails than actual pointy spear handlers, the FLEA's are mostly office workers and paper shufflers. There are almost no troops on the ground. Your odds of being harassed ONLY increase if you have been specifically targeted, and the odds of that happening are very low. Actually, you cannot tell me that each year there are any where close to thirty thousand cop killings and FLEA raids. But there ARE 30k traffic fatalities a year. Your odds are worse from driving than from Jack Booted Thugs.

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Not to say the local cops won't make the odds worse, but I'm speaking of the Dreaded, Feared Federal Government Tyrannical Troops. And if you have moved to a small town like you already should have, and don't act the fool, the cops won't harass you there. Big city, more militant the cops. Easy equation. See how well the campaign of fear and intimidation has worked? You worry about the wrong threats. And you know who you DON'T worry about, but should? Your neighbors. Why aren't you afraid?

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You think the federal government will fly in troops from two thousand miles away, because you copied a DVD of homosexual bondage love, or dropped a N-Bomb in an e-mail ( actually, not practicing Black Worship just MIGHT put you on the feds radar ), and yet you chose to live a hundred yards from a neighbor because, what? He is a nice guy so he would never think of shooting you when his children went hungry? At the end of the day, neighbors will be an immediate guaranteed threat and most likely the federal government will leave you well alone, busy guarding Congress Critters from Disadvantaged Youth*.

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( *The day after I wrote the above-I took a day off as I had oodles of correspondence to catch up on-the news reports Marshals and the like are going to be protecting our Dear Leaders from the Orange Man Threat, a few days after the Capitol Hill riots )

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How can you defend yourself against neighbors? Because there are NOT easy answers. Both “I'll shoot them all” and “Christian Charity” are simplistic deeply flawed strategies. I'll be honest, I'm strictly in the Shoot Them All Let God Sort Them Out camp. I simply cannot afford to feed both the Coneheads AND any neighbors. I'll barely make it out alive sharing my food with family, who I don't want, but need if I'll have any hope of surviving. We've discussed this. Unless you go Hermitage ( which is NOT the worst idea, but you must have the personality for it ), where being alone is an advantage, you need some tribe. And a terrible prepper you can trust is far better than a well trained and well stocked person you don't know well enough to trust.

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And no, the answer is NOT to stock more food. Past a certain point, you are just paying for someone else's food. Have enough and it gets serious force applied to its misappropriation. And before you embarrass yourself and say “stock a years supply for each neighbor, only $150 each”, it isn't that simple. It is $150 each PERSON, not each neighbor, and you can bet a jelly filled donut that each neighbor will have butt tons of family they have show up or invite, and if you don't stock for them, each one of them, you become the target of a palace coup.

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I BEG you, I implore you, I beseech you, for the love of all that is good and holy, listen to history and anthropology. The way tribe survives is to steal food or kill for food, and I do NOT mean that they steal food once hungry, or only kill in self defense. I mean, they WILL attack you for your supplies in anticipation of future need. Or kill you if they think you'll perhaps be a FUTURE threat. As on the tribal level, so on the smaller group level. Which are just embryonic tribes. You have, more than likely, not enough trust with neighbors. You'll never be a tribe. If they are already tribe, if you could trust them to have your back, to loan you money sure to never be repaid, to help you bury a body, great. Then they no longer are neighbors, but rather tribe. But JUST neighbors? Another kettle of fish.

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And, it won't JUST be $150 a neighbor, because even if you have few neighbors, and no family will join them, what do you think is going to happen once that one year mark has been reached? Assuming the garden had issues, or any other numbers of issues made replacement food inadequate, what will your neighbor do then? NOT go hungry, if you have food, that's what. So you must store way more than a year per neighbor per person. But then, that just scratches the surface, doesn't it? Because what is the point of feeding neighbors if they don't help protect you? So now you must arm them, have enough ammunition for them.

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Have cold weather gear for them, toilet paper, health supplies, and on ad nauseum. If they are going to be your new tribe, that you at least trust enough to supply them while you can form enough true trust that will bond you into a tribe, well then, they are worth supplying. But just staying neighbors? They will betray you. If you give them all their gear, they will waste it, lose it, barter it or take off with it. If you withhold all their gear, giving it out as if you were the supply officer, they will attack you for it.

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Let us dispel one myth, brought up to me by a minion. If the neighbors want to take your food, they will also settle with destroying your food. It isn't JUST a case of “if I cannot have it, neither can you”. It goes much deeper than that. It is a matter of conviction. If you have the conviction to die defending someone, the enemy just might decide you are not worth dying for. If you have the conviction to steal another mans goods ( food, territory, wife ), be willing to fight him to the death, he might just surrender them without a fight. You must gamble your death, to win. But you MUST mean it, and display that conviction.

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That is what neighbors might do, a form of that. That want your food. They are willing to do whatever it takes to get that. Even if it means having to burn you out, and consequently destroying the very thing they want. See how that works? You cannot defend your family if you are dead, but if you fight like you will even if that happens, you win. If you fight for what you want to steal, even if you don't end up with that ( another for instance-willing to massacre all the castle peasants even though you want them as slaves ), your CONVICTION is what is going to give you a huge advantage.

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Now, conviction on your part is NOT an adequate strategy per se, if you think that alone will deter attacks. You must have the means to back up conviction. You might be really eager to kill all that oppose you, but if the neighbors can burn you out, or hit you with a sniper if you ever go out to get more firewood, or take out your solar panel that powers your well, then your conviction means diddly jack crap. And don't forget, you must have enough ammunition to “fight, not feed”.

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Who has that level of ammunition? I had the perfect retirement retreat in east Texas, from a standpoint of gardening and fishing and minimal shelter. Close to town, but more of a village, and all for a few hundred bucks for the lot. But only about a hundred miles from the Dallas Fort Worth mega-urban-hive. How would I ever have had enough ammunition? And that was BEFORE Only Black Lives Matter made these considerations even more important.

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Time for some tough love here, minions. Frankly, most of you are probably sad and pathetic on your ammunition supply. Do you have five thousand rounds for your bolt action rifle? Do you even have that much for your semi-automatic rifles ( and do you have back-ups to those rifles? ). How many guns do you have buried? How much ammo is cached? After the grocery store shortages almost a year ago, I sure hope most of you bought the crap out of storage food, no matter how pathetic. Even just white flour, because calories matter.

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( Have you seen all that much more than a dozen-and that seems to be the maximum-five pound bags of flour at Wal-Mart at any one time this last year? The generic, I don't care how much of the $3 a small bag name brand they have. I've rarely seen more than two 25 lb sacks at a time. Of course, the pathetic media would have us believe-and I kid you not, I actually read this-that since we were all locked down and bored, we all decided to bake, and that was why we had shortages of flour. Do you understand the official state propaganda is covering up real food shortages? )

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Do you even understand what the function of the media is? They are merely a branch of the government, and their only job is to Psychological Warfare the public. You REALLY think the media is a communist front for the Democrats? The business of America is Banker Business, and who would be the last industry to welcome a communist dictatorship? Yeah, the bankers. Communism is nothing more than racism and sexism and ageism, all Divide And Conquer strategies. You think I'm a racist, the amount of cavorting I do over the threat of Blacks in the coming civil war?

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I would drop to my knees and suck Black ass, hug a Black and make him a lifelong friend, even learn how to rap about killing Whitey, if I could ally with Blacks and together we could overthrow the federal reserve bank and abolish banker rule. I'm only “racist” as far as I need to be to protect myself, and I know who the true enemy is even as I must protect against other threats. But, moving on. The media might pretend to hate Trump and Republicans, but who they really hate are citizens and threats to their profits.

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The media is controlled by a few rich humpers, and they would in no way, shape or form EVER approve of a communist system. You old humpers fear communism, and so are controlled by the fear of our Great Republic turning communist. The young punks grew up worshiping communism and are controlled by the prospect of getting their Utopia. Both sides are played and the winners are the Imperial Party Dear Leaders ( with their butt buddies rolling in their billions in profits ).

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Who else besides the bankers and government would benefit from the citizens being controlled and docile? The 1%'ers. And who owns the communist media? The 1%'ers. I have little doubt that the Useful Idiots such as media BobbleHeads and new CongressCritters fresh from bar-tending school, drunk dementia patients like Nancy Polosi and millions of other morons, all actually believe they are advancing a true communist system. Just like millions believed that Trump was more than a RINO Red Shield puppet.

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True Believers make much better shock troops. But both Blue Staters and MAGA Morons are mere Brown Shirts, useful for street clashes and conveniently discarded at the appropriate time-and no, I actually don't mean to insult you. But if you don't target your true enemy, you are cannon fodder. Hey, I used to believe Libertarian Party candidates would usher in freedom ( the stupid twats are pimping for illegal immigration, now ). I don't believe I was stupid, I was just lied to and used. Just like you were with Trump. Hate him, not me.

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Now, answer me this. If the media lies to you about everything, and want you dead ( if you are White, they want you dead, if you are Black, they want you to kill Whites, and if you die in the process, well, good job there, bucko ), why wouldn't they be lying about Every Gott Damn Thing? About Gore Warming, about the condition of the supply of food? About the condition of the economy? About the death rate of Corona? About the safety of vaccines? About politics?

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Oh, what was that? Let me repeat. They Lie About The Condition Of The Food Supply! What are you going to do, research the government supplied numbers to get a different answer? The economy is failing. Corona is the coup de grace. The food supply, the oil supply and the supply of everything is failing. You cannot expect to remain alive, under a condition in which you are consuming a failing resource. YOU AIN'T THAT SPECIAL, dear snowflake. I ain't that special, and I have the exclusive love of Baby Jesus AND perfect hair.

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Okay, NOW do you feel bad you don't have enough extra food? If I were you, I'd feel REALLY bad. But that is just me. And just to get it out of the way, remember me saying I won't buy any more food? I can maybe, sorta, kinda afford far more food. Triple what I have, if I spend a good portion of my savings. I say, “I can't afford it”, but what I mean is I'm anticipating a longer period of government rule when I must buy groceries, and my remaining lifespan would be shorter once on JUST stockpiled food.

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So buying more storage food, I'm betting on the wrong horse. We must stock for during the collapse, not just afterwards. But say I went ahead and bought the crap out of storage food ( unlike your area of operations, wheat kernels remain in stock here in the area all you Yuppie Scum Survivalists love to hate, the desert [ and for all of you who will accept the desert, it must be the low desert because your fragile bones need to be at a constant super high temperature ], so now I have wheat AND a defensive moat and all you have is kudzu and water moccasins and no wheat ). What would be the purpose?

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When I was in forth grade, I got to be the most popular kid in school. I had found five dollars, and we had a pharmacy on the other side of the fence of the elementary school. They sold every imaginable candy bar at a mere nickel each. Given this unexpected windfall, I did what any kid would do and bought the biggest of the bars, which were taffy. One hundred bars of taffy. I don't remember what my plan was, possibly have a stash in my desk, but they didn't last past the first recess. I was sharing my fortune with the few kids I liked and in less than two seconds I was surrounded, maggots on meat. I almost had to give them all away, or be crushed. And there were my ( less than ) fifteen minutes of fame.

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Do you think your food storage among the neighbors will fare any different? The more food you store for the neighbors, the quicker you will have Instant Friends, and the more of them. Then, after they have used you like a $5 whore on payday, will leave you broken and bleeding in the gutter, awash in venereal diseases and regret. So, you are either abused by the neighbors, or word gets around to ANOTHER group who will invade/attack, because while a small families food supply might not be worth dying for, a neighborhoods food supply is well worth the risk.

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Do you understand that you will be MORE abused, used, targeted and attacked the MORE food you have? Do you think rich guys ever find true love? Sure, that's the Hallmark Movie Of The Week myth, and about as realistic as laser guns from Star Wars ( or as realistic as Political Correctness in Star Trek ). Bitches just want your money, and neighbors just want your supplies. And they won't play nice to get it, even if they'll pretend at first. Here is your take-away. It is okay to hurt your loving friendly neighbors, because that is what they plan on for you.

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And neighbors don't need to overwhelm you in a firefight. Your oodles and gobs of AR-15's ( I refuse to play semantics. CAR-15, NBAR, M2, whatthehellever. To me, they are all just AR's, or M-16's. Don't be a Grammar Nazi with your gun porn ) and super deluxe tactical training ain't dingus against a Molotov cocktail ( don't you love how suddenly there was “proof” of those at the Capitol Hill “riots”? If you trust the “Justice” system, you are a flaming moron, and that is an insult to retards ).

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If the neighbors want you dead, it won't be difficult. You can never have enough to safely bribe them, and you'll never have enough bullets, or the manpower to employ them. Even your fireproof house is not going to work, if any half bright boy among the neighbors suddenly remembers what a catapult is. Sure, your stucco home has expensive steel window shudders. Is the roof reinforced enough to defeat primitive projectiles? Are all your walls covered by angles of fire? Can sappers dig under a wall? Money doesn't make a castle, if it was just an overpriced suburban peacock feather nest to begin with.

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Bribery and defense won't work, and are too obvious in their weakness. But what about treachery? You only need enough food to fool your neighbors, as you plot to assassinate them. Yes, even the old people and children. And if you value your testicles while you sleep, even the pretty buxom babe neighbors. And if you are some nasty commie bleeding heart, you can always just capture rather than kill, and sell into slavery ( although fraught with its own dangers, as would be your enslaving them yourself, to start your own kingdom ).

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I'm not some bitter old man, hiding out in my ancient mothers basement, cursing the world and making secret lists of my enemies to be eliminated ( okay, I'm bitter and I hide out at home-but that is Corona's fault. And I make Lamp Post Lists, but those are industries and occupations, not individuals. So that's okay! ). I don't want an apocalypse. I was more enthused about one when younger, when I would have had the testosterone to both gleefully slay my enemies and bed his lamenting women. But now both are just going to be hard work. But an apocalypse is coming.

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You need to beware that Hard Things are part and parcel of an apocalypse. To be a weepy New Testament soy boy, dispensing Christian Love & Acceptance is not only a great way to get yourself killed, which no one will care about, you'll also get your family killed, one of which might be worth saving. You need to kill EVERYBODY that is not of your tribe. Any survivors will either eat your tribes food, or die very slowly and painfully-so you've done them no favors keeping them alive. It is merely culling the herd, to match the available grazing.

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I'm not saying, go out of your way to kill. I'm suggesting that in your area of operations, there WILL be those you must kill. Don't shy away from that, no matter how unpleasant. Their death increases your family's and your tribes survival odds. Your neighbors are both in your area of operations and they WILL kill you, eventually. I'm not trying to desperately grasp at any excuse for a cold blooded murder spree. I'm telling you that the population will decline to resource availability, and that process has never been bloodless or without violence.

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You don't get to pick if the collapse is violent or not, all you get to pick is if you want to make it easier for someone else to die or if you want it to be you and yours. A pretty simple question. Yes, I know, there are plenty of idiots who will search out a third option and waste time and then join the funeral pyre. Don't be an idiot. Your neighbors didn't help you ( again, remember, these are people living near you that will NOT be part of your tribe. Those that will be are exempted. And what do we say about tribe? They are the ones the nice rules apply to. Everyone else-EVERYONE, to include priests, babies, little old ladies-they get Mongol Horde rules applied to them ), they didn't help themselves. Kill or be killed.

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But, you do it smart. Hug, hug, love, love, you are a special snowflake, hug, please allow me to take food out of my child's mouth to feed your worthless cancer ridden fat ass, your Blue voting ass, your greedy avarice ass. Your Mother Earth polluting ass, as you almost run me over on my bicycle with your SUV. Why, yes, let me reward you for voting for higher property taxes so you didn't lose any equity in your gum and glue hunk of sheetrock crap home. Here is the substance you require. Please, eat up.

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Now, I wouldn't advise poison. Too easy to detect, and perhaps not simultaneously effective. You need other misfortunes to befall them, in a manner that doesn't point back on you. Perhaps you lead them into an ambush. Or, a fire breaks out at night and you respond along with the others to help fight it ( although you might get caught, seen, or your bitch whore wife turns on you, as she has had her eyes on the next door neighbor she would prefer to Play House with ). Perhaps you have a brother or good friend joining up with you, but they detour to act as an invading force.

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Perhaps YOU want to leave the unfaithful hag of a wife, and get your secret affair girlfriend to accuse a neighbor of rape ( one doesn't imagine a rape kit or DNA match will be available, and you two can get kinky and rough, as “evidence” ), having a quick trial and hang him, with others help. You might even need to expel the rapists wife as she complains and accuses you of foul play. Perhaps poison would be applied to your wife, then you accuse another neighbor of being unfaithful and killing her to shut up her confession.

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Kidnap some neighbors kids, for “food ransom”, and when the neighbor goes out to pay, you acting as back-up or potential ambusher bushwhack him and bury the food for later retrieval. I know, that exposes you to accusation yourself. You'd have to be careful. The same as if a neighbor going to pick berries gets ambushed-have a solid alibi. What if you get up in the middle of the night, sneak outside the perimeter and shoot one of the guards, then set fire to one place, shoot up a cabin, etc. You'll be able to slip inside your place quickly, then emerge as part of the defense force.

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You could try the old “we must lock up all the guns in one central safe location”, although I'm not sure how well that would fly-better if your neighbors are liberals and don't have their own anyway. Then, go Gay Nightclub on them. I know, none are perfect. I'm just spitballing here. I'm almost wondering if a better tactic would be to attack them quickly, at first, before anyone joins forces. Perhaps you attack them ( along with the wife and friend ) at that meeting to decide on defense. I don't know. I don't have the details, just the direction. Good luck.

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