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shiner

Lifer
Jul 18, 2000
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Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Originally posted by: Socio
Originally posted by: alien42
"Civil unrest will break out before the end of the year. The Military and Guard will be called up to try to stop it. They won't be able to. Big cities are at risk of becoming a free-fire death zone. If you live in one, figure out how you can get out and live somewhere else if you detect signs that yours is starting to go "feral"; witness New Orleans after Katrina for how fast, and how bad, it can get."

now that is golden, especially when stated as fact.

When the crap hits the fan just where exactly do you think the first significant impact is going to hit?

That?s right major cities, like LA, New York, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, etc?. where high numbers of people are concentrated, where food and other life sustaining supplies will run out first. It does not take a genius to figure out that is where major civil unrest will start and be the most violent.

But food isn't going to run out. Just because people won't be able to buy a new iPod doesn't mean the demise of civilization.

Wait just a damn minute....we won't be able to buy new iPods?

That's bullshit man! Bullshit. How the fuck are we supposed to survive without new iPods?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you!
 

ayabe

Diamond Member
Aug 10, 2005
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Actually, I prefer watching that War Room thing with Glenn Beck, he has cool graphics and actual basement dwelling end timers on there.

You get to see exactly what these people look like, unmasked from the internets that one guy very much looks like he wears spider man pajamas to bed.
 

Moonbeam

Elite Member
Nov 24, 1999
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There is an unconscious desire for catastrophe because we feel we deserve it. We have all been through worse than a concentration camp and don't remember, but we project it out in the world and long to get back into one to recover our life we lost there long ago. That is not the right way, of course, to do it. It can be done only by remembering. So we are stuck with out death wish and no way to escape it. Not good to live in a world with everybody having an unconscious desire for it to end.
 

Genx87

Lifer
Apr 8, 2002
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My investment in an assault rifle may be the best return I see if all of this comes true.
 

alien42

Lifer
Nov 28, 2004
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Originally posted by: Socio
Originally posted by: alien42
"Civil unrest will break out before the end of the year. The Military and Guard will be called up to try to stop it. They won't be able to. Big cities are at risk of becoming a free-fire death zone. If you live in one, figure out how you can get out and live somewhere else if you detect signs that yours is starting to go "feral"; witness New Orleans after Katrina for how fast, and how bad, it can get."

now that is golden, especially when stated as fact.

When the crap hits the fan just where exactly do you think the first significant impact is going to hit?

That?s right major cities, like LA, New York, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, etc?. where high numbers of people are concentrated, where food and other life sustaining supplies will run out first. It does not take a genius to figure out that is where major civil unrest will start and be the most violent.

can Socio's status now be changed from 'Golden Member' to 'Path'?
 

StageLeft

No Lifer
Sep 29, 2000
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Originally posted by: Jack Flash
But food isn't going to run out. Just because people won't be able to buy a new iPod doesn't mean the demise of civilization.
It will after my neighbors and I jack the food convoys and then sell the food to people for sex and whiskey, won't it? What you gonna do then?
 

TheSlamma

Diamond Member
Sep 6, 2005
7,625
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Originally posted by: Genx87
My investment in an assault rifle may be the best return I see if all of this comes true.
Cause everyone is all of a sudden going to contract rabies and it's going to be an animalfest in the streets? :confused:

Sounds like a republican wet dream.
 

Robor

Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
16,979
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Originally posted by: shinerburke
Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Originally posted by: Socio
Originally posted by: alien42
"Civil unrest will break out before the end of the year. The Military and Guard will be called up to try to stop it. They won't be able to. Big cities are at risk of becoming a free-fire death zone. If you live in one, figure out how you can get out and live somewhere else if you detect signs that yours is starting to go "feral"; witness New Orleans after Katrina for how fast, and how bad, it can get."

now that is golden, especially when stated as fact.

When the crap hits the fan just where exactly do you think the first significant impact is going to hit?

That?s right major cities, like LA, New York, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, etc?. where high numbers of people are concentrated, where food and other life sustaining supplies will run out first. It does not take a genius to figure out that is where major civil unrest will start and be the most violent.

But food isn't going to run out. Just because people won't be able to buy a new iPod doesn't mean the demise of civilization.

Wait just a damn minute....we won't be able to buy new iPods?

That's bullshit man! Bullshit. How the fuck are we supposed to survive without new iPods?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you!

Queensryche... WaAaAaAaAaAaAa! Rock on! :music:
 

alien42

Lifer
Nov 28, 2004
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just saw on CNBC that there is a single stock at a 52 week time high today...

RGR - Sturm, Ruger, & Co, Inc.

oh noes this thread is already coming true ;)
 

StageLeft

No Lifer
Sep 29, 2000
70,150
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Originally posted by: alien42
just saw on CNBC that there is a single stock at a 52 week time high today...

RGR - Sturm, Ruger, & Co, Inc.

oh noes this thread is already coming true ;)
LOL you're right.

 

Jaskalas

Lifer
Jun 23, 2004
35,793
10,088
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If the present situation devolves from a depression into a collapse, then you need to look around and ask yourself this. How much farmland and water sources are located locally? Especially in comparison to the millions of people in the area.

Is it going to happen? What?s the likelihood of our government running up debts it cannot pay?
 

Ozoned

Diamond Member
Mar 22, 2004
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Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Originally posted by: Genx87
My investment in an assault rifle may be the best return I see if all of this comes true.
Cause everyone is all of a sudden going to contract rabies and it's going to be an animalfest in the streets? :confused:

Sounds like a republican wet dream.

Sounds like a democrats planned structured society.
 

alien42

Lifer
Nov 28, 2004
12,867
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Originally posted by: Ozoned
Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Originally posted by: Genx87
My investment in an assault rifle may be the best return I see if all of this comes true.
Cause everyone is all of a sudden going to contract rabies and it's going to be an animalfest in the streets? :confused:

Sounds like a republican wet dream.

Sounds like a democrats planned structured society.

:confused: you mean our forefathers should not have written the constitution? :confused:
 

BigDH01

Golden Member
Jul 8, 2005
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Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Originally posted by: Genx87
My investment in an assault rifle may be the best return I see if all of this comes true.
Cause everyone is all of a sudden going to contract rabies and it's going to be an animalfest in the streets? :confused:

Sounds like a republican wet dream.

Actually, I'm very concerned about human nature in times of economic hardship. I think if you lift the veil even slightly, you'll find that the shine of our civilized veneer doesn't run very deep. See the New York City blackout of 1977. Tough economic times combined with something as simple as a power outage resulted in chaos.
 

Genx87

Lifer
Apr 8, 2002
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Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Originally posted by: Genx87
My investment in an assault rifle may be the best return I see if all of this comes true.
Cause everyone is all of a sudden going to contract rabies and it's going to be an animalfest in the streets? :confused:

Sounds like a republican wet dream.

Rabies? Nah, civil unrest is a real possibility. I dont call that a wet dream. I call that being prepared.
 

boomerang

Lifer
Jun 19, 2000
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641
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There's an old adage that goes, 'Prepare for the worst and hope for the best'. It applies here.
 

Zebo

Elite Member
Jul 29, 2001
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Anyone see the revised, aka, formerly lying Nov-Dec unemployment numbers come out this morning? Oh and almost all he predicts has been happening and/or forshadowed in various threads here already written by mainstream presss. He's not some nut but rather provides a compilation of facts and follows some to their natural conclusion. Most of us hope he's wrong thus the knee jerk optimistic reaction but if you're not prepared then be prepared to get washed out with the tide.
 

StageLeft

No Lifer
Sep 29, 2000
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Originally posted by: boomerang
There's an old adage that goes, 'Prepare for the worst and hope for the best'. It applies here.
I agree, especially if the cost to prepare for the worst is fairly minimal. From time to time societies see major upheavals and it's silly to presume otherwise. Will we hit it now? Odds say no, but the odds don't say no as convincingly as they used to.
 

Zebo

Elite Member
Jul 29, 2001
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Originally posted by: alien42
just saw on CNBC that there is a single stock at a 52 week time high today...

RGR - Sturm, Ruger, & Co, Inc.

oh noes this thread is already coming true ;)

I hate to say it but in another thread yesterday I said buy gun and ammo stocks including RGR - they are kicking ass, making mad profits, unlike pretty much everything else. USO will be a good buy too when OPEC shuts down production.
 

alchemize

Lifer
Mar 24, 2000
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Zebo, can you please take a picture of yourself with a sandwich board that says "the world will end tomorrow" and post it. pretty please? :)
 
Feb 6, 2007
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Originally posted by: GeezerMan
* Civil unrest will break out before the end of the year. The Military and Guard will be called up to try to stop it. They won't be able to. Big cities are at risk of becoming a free-fire death zone. If you live in one, figure out how you can get out and live somewhere else if you detect signs that yours is starting to go "feral"; witness New Orleans after Katrina for how fast, and how bad, it can get.

Why stop there? Why not say that Nazi zombies will ride fire-breathing tyrannosaurs on jetskis through the flooded remains of every major city, eviscerating and consuming any survivor who is too weak to play host to the alien seeds they will implant in the rest of us. It's plausible.
 

Rustler

Golden Member
Jan 14, 2004
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I have 6 months of emergency food, I allways feel it is prudent to be ready for any possibility.

We had 5 people laid off from my work yesterday one with 30+ years 14+ years.

Anything can happen, you need to be ready for it.
 

BoberFett

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Originally posted by: Socio
Originally posted by: alien42
"Civil unrest will break out before the end of the year. The Military and Guard will be called up to try to stop it. They won't be able to. Big cities are at risk of becoming a free-fire death zone. If you live in one, figure out how you can get out and live somewhere else if you detect signs that yours is starting to go "feral"; witness New Orleans after Katrina for how fast, and how bad, it can get."

now that is golden, especially when stated as fact.

When the crap hits the fan just where exactly do you think the first significant impact is going to hit?

That?s right major cities, like LA, New York, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, etc?. where high numbers of people are concentrated, where food and other life sustaining supplies will run out first. It does not take a genius to figure out that is where major civil unrest will start and be the most violent.

But food isn't going to run out. Just because people won't be able to buy a new iPod doesn't mean the demise of civilization.

The US food system is more fragile than you apparently think. There's a large chain of suppliers and distributors to get things from the farm to your gut. Widespread chaos could cause significant disruption to that chain, and it's a downward spiral from there.