Doomsday Preppers | Neoliberalism, F@scism, and the Apocalypse
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Music by Will Jarvis: willjarvis.bandcamp.com/
The song at the beginning is The Jokes's On Me (Prepper Song) by Big Al Bunker covered by Will Jarvis
Sources:
Survival Retreats by David Black
Dancing at Armageddon by Richard G. Mitchell
The Culture of Control by David Garland
Citizen Protectors by Jennifer Carlson
The Minimal Self by Christopher Lasch
“The Struggle to Sell Survival”: Family Fallout Shelters and the Limits of Consumer Citizenship by Thomas Bishop
• Endnote 2: White Fascism 
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Here’s the full song from the intro willjarvis.bandcamp.com/track/the-jokess-on-me-prepper-song-by-big-al-bunker
Hi, not sure if you will address this, I am in the 22:24 just now, but you are pondering a lot about the guns in this video. The idea among preppers is that in case the society will collapse, you can be ready with anything, meals, water, medical supplies, but if there is someone who has a gun and you not, then they will "overtake" your supplies. So, I can very much understand why they are also stockpiling ammo and guns.
Love the song! :)
@@carolinaalves6426 Thank you!!
I want one of the pics behind you, it fills me with the sanguine light of Baphomet, yimyum!
Man your friend is hella talented
I didn't realise that preppers come up with a specific scenario to prep for. I assumed that they were trying to cover all bases and be as broadly prepared as possible. This seems more like cosplaying
Good ones are, the ones on TV were told to pick an issue because it makes better tv
There's preppers and then there's Doomsday Preppers.
Having food, flashlights, and firstaid kits is being a prepper.
Having 6 years of food and 3,000 rounds of ammo for your 12 guns is being a Doomsday Prepper.
I mean, I personally see myself as a prepper actually and yeah... idk why those overspecialise so much, personally I prefer to prep for as much as possible, with the more likely scenarios taking priority, like enough candles and other light sources for a power outage or stuff to help during a flood (sidenote: Living in the EU so tornados and the like for example are not very high up on my list), tbh I see that as common sense. I live near a river, so one of the things that is useful to prep for is that said river might flood parts of the town during a storm.
@@fearsomefawkes6724 ...And then there are those who _think_ they cover all the bases, but if you listen carefully, their core assumptions actually make it somthing very specific. (Like "we would still be using gubbmint-proof GOLD COINS post-Apocalypse.") Or anything with "zombie" horde invading suburbia, or -- you got the idea.
Practical preppers actually do pick specific situations to prep for and it's really effective. These guys just like LARPing
For example, I grew up in a neighborhood that would often lose power and experience flooding from hurricanes. As a result, we had some measures in place for that specific disaster. We had redundant light sources and ways to cook, kept a landline, owned a generater for the fridge and sump pump, had a good first aid kit, had lots of non-perishible food, and would reuse old gallons of milk by filling them up with water and shoving them in the downstairs freezer (this meant that we had extra water just in case and that we could keep our food cold if the generater stopped working or we ran out of gas)
Realistic prepping isn't that crazy. If you live where there are droughts, prepare for that. Earthquakes? Prepare for that. Etc, etc. Plus, everyone should have the basics no matter where they live. And don't underestimate the power of cards/boardgames. If you don't have power and you have nothing to do for a week straight except wait, you're gonna want to kill your family lol
I can’t believe we’ve let COVID run rampant so long that I’m nostalgic for the Toilet-Paper-Shortage era of the quarantine
good times
That shit was funnier than the run on AR15s for the Obama election
Very hauntological
I live in Melbourne Australia and we've had like multiple waves of empty toilet paper shelves 😂 you'd think people would be learner after the first time that that was pointless?
But but mye capytalizm haz no shortige of toylet paypel.
When my children were young I got into the prepper gig, mostly growing and storing of food, first aid and CPR training and supplies, hunting with no guns(didn't want guns in the house with young children), how to skin and prepare game and fish how to make and modify clothing, store large amounts of drinking water, make herbal remedies for common ailments etc.
I was subscribed to a gardening and prepper newsletter back then where the guy offered good tips on the former things, but also continually pushed guns and other weapons. Mostly, i just took the info on gardening and ignored the other stuff as mostly harmless. Then he did a big article on how to conceal your shelter and generator and garden. In this article he spoke of how to hide, set human traps, and patrol your garden with guns because " you should be prepared to shoot your neighbors when they come to steal your food".He said that you shouldn't feel bad if you have to kill your neighbors as they will "take the food from your children's mouths, murdering your most precious asset".
I cancelled my membership that day.
Now, I do still practice basic emergency preparedness, I have a great collection of first aid items including splints and pressure bandages and items to handle everything from splinters to stabilizing gun shot wounds. I keep enough spare food and water for 2 weeks. But I'm also reaching out to my neighbors before we have any emergency to make sure they know if something goes down, I am ready to join them in us all pooling our resources and helping each other. So far, even in a fairly conservative State, they are receptive and happy to tell me about their skills and tools, etc.
I did the same but all i found out if shit hit the fan prepping is not going to save you . Any bunker mentality is running away from the problem and thinking your safe cos you got the most toilet roll squirreled away is a mind game only . . We all need clean air water and soil and stable climate that's going fast and that's what we should be fighting for .
So how did all your pre-prepper work go during the lockdown? It's an actual question as there aren't too many people out there right now saying how this movement has helped/worsened their lives.
Mood, I wasn't a prepper but my dad grew up as a farmer and we are native American so I've had the privilege of 4+ week camping trips with family and I think a lot of these doomsday preppers are divorced from the reality of living out in the wild lol 😂
Like, they have tons of stuff but don't seem to have tons of skills ? Like can they actually track game , forage, pickle food, sew, etc. ? 👀
like if you dont get taught first aid, whats the use of having 200 cloth bandages? And too, i feel like even if they had the stuff, I feel like they'd do a terrible job monitoring the natural resources on their land 😂🤔 like accidentally killing/scaring off all the game or using up all the edible plants or something
Yeah, that's what I don't get about that mindset. Realistically, it's going to be short-term and we just need to lean on each other. During hurricane season, my family and a couple others had generators that would end up getting essentially passed around the neighborhood to stop everyone's food from going bad. People who didn't have generators would contribute in some other way if they had something to spare. Neighbors came together to have impromtu community barbeques and potlocks because food needed to be cooked immediatedly and everyone was welcome
It might be romantic to some to think that you can be some lone wolf mountain man, but it's so unrealistic. Forming communities is a big part of why we've been so successful as a species. Were there really bad years where a desperate person stole someone's generator/hoarded resources/etc and screwed us over? Of course, but we always figured out how to fix it together and we didn't need to shoot someone to do it
It's seriously depressing that people would willingly go back to a barter system over pooling resources. Preppers wouldnt be bad if they didnt all have the cancerous hyper individualistic mentality
When my dad retired (farmer) he got a pressure canner so that he could preserve fish that he catches. I told him to look up videos on how to use it and when he discovered "preppers" he was amazed that these people existed. As someone who actually spent his life growing food and hunting/fishing, he thought they were clowns.
Why?
@@Ezio999Auditore because they are; they have very little practical skills, like how to do complex first aid, how to communicate with people, major construction, complex food preparation, and sewing or tailoring. They want the flashy sexy military wannabe shit rather than preindustrial basics
@@Ezio999Auditore because they already have a good life and aren't actually in any danger whatsoever. Literal cosplayers.
"Litteral anarchy has broken into the streets!"
"Its horrible! Community gardens, collective housings, worker owned industries!"
Bruh
you'd have to be fucking crazy to believe that
Go on...
@@cynickal Anyone who's lived in the boonies knows there's a lot of "gifting" it's not barter, which requires keeping a set of books, it's mutual gifting. It's natural and it works great.
@@cynickal The Axis hated/hates Victory gardens.
bold of doomsdayers to assume that Amazon wouldn't force their employees to work through the apocalypse
14:03 - Man imagine that therapy session in ten years. That kid is just gonna casually mention the time his parents decided it would be cool and fun and a good idea for dad to dress up as a cop and play hostage and make him and his brother point a gun at mom and dad while dad pointed a gun at mom and they yelled contradictory commands.
My dad was a prepper while I was growing up and while it wasn't as bad as that, I know I could definitely use some therapy...I hope that kid is ok
not similar to that but some of my fondest memories were being chased by my dad with a machete. luckily he wasn't going to kill me or using it as dooms day practice he just wasn't a very smart father.
@@nirvana-owo This either means you had a fucked up childhood or that you were the most Metal kid I've ever heard of.
@@nirvana-owo FONDEST?! Jesus what does your worst memories look like?!
@@nirvana-owo Sounds like my childhood, except it wasn't my father but rather my cousins
"Your paper money is going to be worthless, so I'm stocking up on metal discs that don't have any actual practical use. Those will be so valuable!"
The obsession of preppers (and conspiracy theorists) with bullion currency always mystified me. Gold as a currency has no use outside of organised civilisations.
I brought this up to one of my prepper coworkers and he didn't really have a response. It was kind of sad because he just had this crestfallen look on his face and said, "Well... Maybe my grandchildren will be rich after civilization rebuilds itself." THAT'S SO MANY LEVELS OF "What if"...
I keep trying to explain this to my dad and he just. Doesn't get it. Dude it's shiny metal. I don't want shiny metal, I want a big yard for my dog to play in.
I made friends with a Vietnam vet when I lived in a particularly militarized area for a bit. He gave me a silver dollar when I moved away and told me, after the apocalypse, to use it to buy my friends a nice dinner and a ride on a boat and make sure to tell 'em it was a gift from ol' Uncle Jack and raise our glass to him. it was unironically one of the sweetest goodbyes I've ever had... but it's easier to look at it that way because his and my friendship was based on a mutual understanding that we'd never fully understand each other and it was kind of inevitable that he and I would part ways sooner or later.
@@moderncaveman3728 gold and silver and even copper have monetary value under the current global regime, yes. But the most valuable thing in a global crisis, especially a hypothetical one where extant economic systems collapse, is arable land, a well rounded primitive survival skillset, and a community of people with the same. All the gold in the world won't help you any more than all the bullets in the world will.
Once Covid became a thing, all I thought was “that bird flu lady on Doomsday Preppers is probably feeling so smug right now”
Naw I bet she was a covid denier
I have money that she's anti-vax
Honestly, either situation is plausible
I love the idea that partners of preppers can trick their ultra-alpha gunboy husbands into doing the grocery shopping by just implying that supplies are running low.
"Men can't shop for groceries" is capitalist propaganda meant to convince women to shop more since they tend to spend more on average.
@@MK_ULTRA420 It's so easy to reject looking at the development of gender roles over the centuries and how they change with material conditions, to just say that everything is capitalist propaganda. I'm not a fan of capitalism or enforced gender roles, but my god is this embarrassing.
@@fruitygarlic3601 Bad comrade ^
Someone’s not a “bad leftist” just because you dont understand or disagree with their opinions. Democracy and working with other people who might not like you is literally the whole point of leftism. Twitter brain take.
@@MK_ULTRA420 my point was more that preppers tend to be the types of people that buy into patriarchal gender roles
"To have a (channel) name that I had put literally any thought into."
I feel personally attacked.
Ok but yours is good though
"No way, Jose" would have been a pinnacle of human thought. But no, you just had to go your own way, Jose. I don't respect it. Fall in line, sir. Harumph!
Hello brother
@@WereInHell it was a personal attack and you know it 💁♂️
Hey, you're that guy from the the thing
"What a difference there is between the people who want to stop the end of the world and the people who look forward to surviving it." That is the epitome of the problem in the prepper movement.
is this a quote from later in the video cause man that's so perfectly worded
@@dazey8706 it's from 3:10
I'm so excited you covered this. My parents are preppers. They literally have two storage units full of guns, ammo, and food supplies. They made fun of people panic shopping during covid, but they ALSO went panic shopping. They spent thousands of dollars on supplies at the beginning of the pandemic, got in fights with people at walmart. I wondered, what was the point of you stock piling all this stuff, just so you could be in the same situation the people who dont have two storage units full of food are? Your video answered that it's because it fulfills their fantasy of the world ending.
I’m all for emergency preparedness. My dad is a literal emergency and disaster manager, I can’t really not get why it’s so important. And for a great intro to it, I recommend Beau of the Fifth Column’s videos on the subject.
Which is a really good show of difference between emergency preparedness, and preppers. It’s about making sure that you can survive ANY disaster as best as you can, and when you and your family are taken care of, you can go help other people.
And by any disaster I mean stuff like storms and cyclones, floods, bushfires, pandemics, and even just power outages. It doesn’t have to be some esoteric thing. It’s all based in the practical. Stuff like having all your important papers in a file that can go near or in an emergency bag so you can quickly grab it if your house is on fire. Or having a little butane cooker for power outages, and an esky (cooler) for the same.
It’s not so much about zombie apocalypses and terrorist attacks on your tiny town. It’s more having a working first aid kit. Highly recommend that people do get prepared for the most common “disaster” that they’re likely to come across. Fire, flood or just a power outage.
Fun fact, one of the quotes was read by Beau, I thought I recognised his voice, so I checked the information tab and there is a thanks to, among others, Beau.
Edit: I was still listening to the video when I replied, he thanks Beau and the others at the end.
Agree with this. Which is why I always try to make the distinction between preppers and doomsday nuts.
Unfortunately, it is common for people (who don't even prepare for a flat tire or dead battery) to make fun of people who own a solar charger.
Yeah but the issue is that emergency preparedness isn't heroic in the way that these doomsday preppers want. They want to be the badass fighting a horde of incoming (insert racist stereotypes here), and there isn't much glory (to them) in being able to help make sure that their neighbours are able to keep their food preserved, or making sure that everyone has a decent first aid kit, or even being able to repair things, you know?
Yes! While I was growing up, my dad was a doomsday prepper, and I always wished that my dad had focused more on emergency preparedness (which, like, my family did focus on it a lot, but also there was a lot of the "Guns will save the day" attitude, too). I really wish preppers would get it through their heads that to make it through a disaster, you NEED a strong community and that you need to be ready for smaller, realistic disasters, not crazy hypotheticals. Ultimately, communal action and a versatile toolkit will always be more helpful (and probably come with a whole lot less racism).
This is SO true. I started checking out prepper forums because of hobbies (like gardening and raising goats) that I already had, but also because of a growing cynicism about my future as a disabled teacher living in hurricane country. I figured it was pretty likely that at retirement age, my health, the economy, and our response to climate change might not be doing all that great. And if they are, it's not like it would hurt me to have been prepared for that.
So I was bracing myself for the kind of Rambo fantasy described in this video, and was quite refreshed to find a growing number of people interested in emergency preparedness who roll their eyes at the Mad Max shit. Which isn't to say that it's not there in force and very vocal. And HOLY COW are they into guns. But I was pleased to find a growing number of sensible people who are generous with practical information, want their communities and not just themselves ready for emergencies, and who also work and protest to make the world better in between canning their tomatoes.
“Artisanal Doomsday Prepper” should be an Etsy store.
“Finely, uniquely, hand-crafted, custom supplies for the discerning doomsday survivalist”
😂😂😂😥😥😎 indeed
If I were burdened with fewer ethical qualms, and gifted with 80% more personal motivation, I'd launch something just like this to get in on scamming these fools.
There is an entire industry for "boutique prepping supplies". No one wants to be the guy with the second best pocket sized anti-radiation water filter.
canadian prepper comes to mind
I feel like that'd be people who do historical reenactment. And maybe some types of LARPers.
Doomsday Prepping:
- Learning the names and trades of your neighbors
- Sharing tools, skills, and resources
- Establishing community gardens
- Learning to sew and patch clothing
- Self defense and first aid
Not Doomsday Prepping:
- Filling a bunker with guns and beans
my sophomore year english teacher showed red dawn at the end of the year and said "if you guys laugh, then i know i did my job right" love u mr petersen
I had this, but the opposite. My high school (in Florida, to no one's surprise) had two teachers that were cousins. They had rooms right next to each other. They also happened to be right-wing conspiracy theory nuts. I was unlucky enough to end up with both teachers over the course of my high school career, and both of them showed us Red Dawn and hailed it to be some kind of masterpiece. I really wish I knew then what I know now so I could call them out for literally pushing propaganda.
Go Stars!
Which red dawn ? cause the new one sucked so much xss dude
The year was 1999, a family friend thought that the world was going to end and decided to max out his and his wife's credit cards, remortgage the house, and took out any loans he could in order to buy an RV, fill it up with gold, gas, MREs, guns and ammo. He bid his wife and all of us farewell and drove into the middle of the desert the week of new year and the week afterwards to "be safe" from any city anarchy and shit.
In the end, they had to file for bankruptcy, she filed for divorce, and everyone in town ended up getting some really cheap gas from him.
Ok but like WHY DIDN'T HE TAKE HER WITH HIM! THAT'S A DÌCK MOVE!
@@internetexplorer6304 that's survival baybeeee
“What a difference there is between the people wanting to stop the end of the world and the people looking forward to surviving it”
Yes. THIS.
The fact that most of these "preppers" were always preparing to literally isolate themselves from society whilst ignoring the fact that such a strategy is the exact opposite of people who actually get stuck in real-world disasters always gave me a clue that they were more into (very expensive) fantasy role-playing than anything else.
There are prepper communities if that's what you're wondering.
The same ones who complained and protested during lockdowns this year because they couldn't go and get a hair cut. If you're a prepper you should have learned to cut your own hair by then.
@@lemsip207
Right???? Like fuck I'm just super poor so I learned how to cut my own hair. Like these preppers could learn a thing or two from impoverished people, we ACTUALLY know how to survive shit situations 😂
@@mksabourinable a brazilian who lives in a favela is way better prepared for survival than anyone who hoards ar-15s like you can carry more than one
@@MK_ULTRA420 That still plan to live completely isolated from the rest of the world. Trapped in a bunker and defending their sparse food from any intruders
I had an ancap doomsday prepper phase in high school (I am a 26-year-old lesbian woman) and I was obsessed with the possibility of nuclear apocalypse. Turns out I have bipolar disorder and was in a manic episode and was actively delusional so that was fun.
The sheer existential horror I felt while watching Red Dawn, slowly realizing it wasn't a parody. I shiver when I remember that to this day.
It makes me feel like how I felt when I realized my southern relatives were seriously considering Trump as a candidate. Despite being conservative, they’re college educated and I thought their religious beliefs would render the president anathema to them. Reading them, verbatim, his response to a question on the nuclear triad and hearing them try to justify it... I knew. I just knew. I’d been concerned before but it was then that I knew he’d win. My parents were in denial for months but I knew if he could hook my relatives, it was over. It’s a scary moment when the universe snaps into focus and it’s something that seems so horrifying and wrong. Not easy to forget.
I used to get prepper content sent my way because I'm into homesteading. It's like, I'm interested in being prepared because I'm one individual in a world that's falling to pieces. I also want to lead a cheaper, more sustainable lifestyle that doesn't impact the environment so much, but I have zero delusions about how much I'm going to hate not having a dishwasher if society actually does collapse.
11:56 Turning apples into sauce, cider, vinegar is just being a responsible apple tree owner. Those trees fruit a lot of apples that can break the limb
How can these senorios break your limbs?
@@DavidRamirez-se2yt I think he means the weight of the fruit can break the limb of the tree.
@@notapplicable6985 ho, thanks. I don't have much knowledge on agriculture slang.
@@DavidRamirez-se2ytAbsolutely bananas to me that "limb" is being referred to as slang lmao.
@@Abigail-hu5wf like,a branch is technically a limb of a tree, but when ever I hear limb, I usually think of animals
I would imagine being able to repair things, do basic medical first aid and what-not would be a lot more useful in an apocalypse then having a lot of guns. That way you'd be a valued member of whatever community you're in and people would go out of their way to defend you and take care of you and that's really basically the foundations of having a community.
So just be the guy that everybody with guns would crowd around?
@@normandy2501 They'll start shooting each other to get to you, and then they'll accidentally kill you in the process. Preppers think they would be the heroes, or even the facist victors in an end-of-the-world scenario, when really they'd be the ones everyone remaining would avoid because the only skills they have are shooting (not ducking for cover, or military survivalist training or anything like that, just the part where you aim and pull the trigger)
I think preppering is about being terrified of your neighbors and people in general, except for their close family.
So skills that would be valued by a community are not that important to them.
Their ideal survival mode is very much bunking down and cutting off ties with the world at large. Some do plan to barter with a kind of “outside” once “the end” comes but even that does not seem to result in establishing any kind of bonds with these people.
The idea that human beings thrive when they band together is entirely antithetical to their philosophy. This despite the fact that in cases of floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, human beings fare much better when they get together. And they very often do.
There is a hard limit as to what they can achieve, on their own, or with their families.
Their paradigm is not a village or a town, it’s a bunker and a compound if they can afford it.
@@Nocturnalux Not in my case. I consider myself a prepper- or a wanna-be prepper, since there's not much you can do when living on the most basic disability you can get in a one-bedroom apartment with no place to grow anything. I have books on gardening, food preservation, animal husbandry, carpentry, medicine, etc. I'm keenly aware that those books aren't much use to me on my own, and that I also lack the fundamentals for survival if things go really bad- I have no way to get enough water, or to filter it, no way to stay warm in the winter or cook food in inclement weather, no way to grow any food, etc. Only by working with others could I get what I need. And I also know that if one person tried to do all the tasks on their own it would be daunting, but if many people all got together and shared the effort it would be easier. If you cook and sleep around a communal fire, you need far less firewood than if everyone cooked and slept separately. If six people grew all the food they could and two to four took the time to can everything that wouldn't be eaten immediately after the harvest, then more food could be grown and saved more easily then if everyone tried to grow, harvest, and can all their own stuff. If you have a designated medic, carpenter, trapper/hunter, etc., then those are jobs others don't have to worry about. If you set up communal latrines, you can save the waste and use it, but someone has to do the nasty work. Aged urine has MANY uses, more than one in textiles, it's used in leatherworking, etc., and you can compost feces and urine, although it takes a couple of years to completely compost a batch. It simply makes more sense to divide and conquer the tasks. The larger a group, the more land you need to grow on to feed everyone. The larger the amount of land, the harder it would be for a single person to do all the gardening. But the larger the group the more tasks you could have people specialize in, like sewing, milling, baking, brewing, etc., and the higher a quality of life everyone can live. So you need people. And yeah, I would prefer to plan for a bad scenario, a complete collapse, because if I can handle that I can handle most things that aren't as bad. Tornadoes, floods, and fires are still problematic, but if your neighbors on higher ground or who the tornado missed are prepared, they can more easily get together to make sure those who were effected will be okay until things can get sorted with emergency responders, insurance, etc. If the economy goes south people can better provide some of their own food and cut some of their bills. In a power outage due to winter weather those who are prepared can help those who aren't survive. You just can't plan to be on your own and be okay through all those things unless you're SUPER rich and can afford a very secure bunker with basically a lifetime supply of all necessities. I don't assume anyone watching this is in that category.
Preppers are toxic individualists, they have no interest in community
I'm glad I got into permaculture and ecology instead of prepping.
As someone raised by preppers who is still stuck with them, A) I need years of therapy, B) I think it may root from a mental health issue. It's like this extreme coping mechanism for anxiety that has never been treated or managed. Your neighbors are trying to kill you, everyone is trying to kill you, you can only rely on yourself because everyone else fails, you are surrounded by incompetence and you are a shining beacon of competence, people will go far out of their way specifically to kill you if they know you have stuff. It's pure fear.
My dad is a doomsday preper but he's extremely left leaning and he doesn't own guns, he mostly just stockpiles food and water purifiers. When I was a kid he would take me survival camping with no tent or food, we had to catch our own food and make our own shelter. I think it's just his way of trying to protect his family. He only has one leg and he wouldn't survive very long in a apocalypse so I think him teaching me how to survive was him making sure I'm able to survive long after he dies.
How sweet of him😊
I hate to tell you this but during a end of the world type disaster nobody is going to be wanting to work or trade with your dad morality and trust play a huge role in doomsday situations and liberals don't really care about Real morality that's why they reject the Bible and most Christian conservatives won't or will be highly reluctant to trust them for their lack of morality. Your dad best prepare to go it mainly on his own strength if he wants to be a liberal prepper.
@@mangakatanaka3067 ah yes, religious people sure are known for their moral superiority 🙄
We live in Scotland in butt fuck nowhere, we'll be fine sweety. You should worry about yourself, things sure are warming up. Although I suppose you don't believe in climate change.
@@trashpanda3544 okay just warning you Scientism isn't going to give you morality it's going to be what causes the doomsday with its Dou what though wilt in the name of Scientism quantum pantheism mysteism. and the other religions don't really have good morality like the truth of Christ. Islam tells you to kill people based on them not worshipping Allah and Buddhism says to just not do anything it's all an illusion bruh and rest have terrible morality in general. Good luck you will need every last drop of it if you plan on gaining moral trust any other way. 🤭
@@mangakatanaka3067 ah yes because the good morals of Christians will prevent them from helping others in times of crisis. Just like Jesus taught us to do
I hate that advertisers profiled me as a prepper for years for buying dry food.
1000g2g3g4g800999
Agreed. All I want is lunch. Quick and able to be made with hot water. Either at work, or when I wander out into the wilderness. (I live in a let’s go hiking/backpacking/camping area) Or, I want to skip grocery shopping during snowstorms. Because too many people.
Wtf else would you buy it . 🤷
@@avancalledrupert5130 dry and canned food are more economical if you can't cook every day
Reminds me a lot of when the zombie genre was huge and all of the media focused heavily on weapons and "being a bad ass lone wolf".
I love how preppers always talk like bullets never go bad. And that reloading old shells is an option. Like when socity breaks down, they will have access and the knoledge to make smokeless gunpowder and spacific caps for the rounds they need when their Ammo gets low or damaged..
I love preppers who think they don't need guns and bullets, they don't realize they're just prepping for someone else!
I had no idea who this was for a sec.
He's like a mixture of Big Joel and Jesse eisenburg with the same hair hair as the guy from cowboy bebop
Honestly I still don't. But anyone who thanks the serfs, creationist cat and Beau must be worth watching.
@@perhaps1094 I think they were referring to the name change. But not a bad description!
Same
You're like a sassy big Joel
I was trying to think of who his cadence reminded me of... omg they sound so similar and have the same sense of humor and even both do the little “....so what..?” Or “what does this mean?” At the end sometimes
Big Mustache Joel
Small Joel
@@homestuck_official medium joel
@@birdglasses8278
Adequately Sized Joel
Nothing like traumatizing your small child in the name of a scenario that will never happen.
Famous last words mate.
@@Ezio999Auditore how
My favorite kind of prepper is the kind that lives in the middle of high population centers. It's telling that they think in a disaster they would be insulated from the trouble going on around them, as easily as they ignore the troubles of their neighbors today.
my favorite kind of pepper is jalapeno :)
@@WetRatGaming thanks for catching my typo
You can tell these prepper types have never experienced real suffering or hardship in their entire lives if they're actively craving it in their weird LARPing fantasies.
I think that isn't necessarily the case, this could very easily be people with actual intractable problems fantasizing about having problems that they could actively do something about.
I'm impressed with this fascination with old recipes for hardtack and pemmican. Those food 'technologies' had their place, in their time, but they really are as hard to eat as legends suggest.
My late wife, who found herself raised by Mormons, taught me to stockpile. This has helped me resist having to go out in public.
I think it's really interesting to see the differences between survivalist preppers and homesteaders. Both have a similar goal of surviving outside of society, but homesteaders actually make their homes sustainable while preppers just plan for one specific scenario.
Preppers prepare to steal from homesteaders.
Much easier to defend a home than assault one for resources. Preppers are dumb.
I will admit that I dabble in prepping ideas but mostly just through gardening and learning to grow vegetables. I'm glad that I don't live in the US or Canada where there are guns in every household and crazy preppers ready to LARP by shooting and looting. I'm more in the camp of learning the useful skills that the last few generations have forgotten and offloaded to farms for convenience that will become much more difficult once petrochemicals run out. Building a community is realistically the only way that we would be able to survive if shit gets worse as hiding in a steel box for years and then shooting each other isn't exactly thinking about long-term continuity.
Where'd you get the idea that Canada has guns in every household?? USA has the gun nuts not us... We have gun control, guns are by law a privilege not a right... We do have a few gun nuts but by and large they're the minority. Seriously statistically speaking the majority want our gun control laws to be STRICTER....
Also a good chunk of Canada has weather that's extreme enough that like... Everyone just does basic emergency preparedness. Like basic shit that is advised by official bodies. So doomsday preppers don't... Take hold as much bc if they wanna get tested fuck bud just wait till winter!
(Seriously there's literally a town in Manitoba where they don't lock their car doors during the polar bear migration in case someone needs a quick place to hide. Just as an example. Even here in Ottawa we get -40° weather and METRES of snow. Fuck a giant sink hole opened up just two blocks from our PARLIAMENT building, it was the size of an Olympic swimming pool.... And we just made memes about it. City gets flooded? Oh just bust out the canoe and film a joke video about going through the Timmies drive thru in a canoe.
We uh... Don't really take ourselves that seriously by and large. Fuck most people don't even know that we had a terrorist attack on our PARLIAMENT building, like buddy was shooting at people right outside the room where our Prime Minister at the time was! Like if anything was gonna get the Doomsday Prepper gun nuts to go nuts that would have but... Not so much.
We do definitely have issues for sure but.... Yea hon the majority of us mock the states for their gun obsession too, and whenever we come across a Canadian who's all about guns we're like "go to the states jfc". Funniest is when they try to argue that they have a right to bear arms and some exasperated government official or police officer or whatever has to say "that's an American law. Here gun ownership is a privilege, not a right, and you need a license.")
@@mksabourinable Yeah I just looked it up and it seems Canadas ranked just out of the top 10 countries for guns per person. Sorry for the exaggeration. I think I'm misremembering something from Bowling for Columbine.
Yeah but learning agricultural skills is actually useful, so it's different.
Nothing wrong with learning survival skills or preparing for the disaster. I think it's just the obsessive LARP-y mindset that certain types fall into that is both dangerous and, ultimately, counterproductive to the aims of civil society.
Have fun in the fema camps then
I saw someone talk about how that up and coming Cottagecore thing is just cutesyfied doomsday prepping for girls (tm), but at least those Cottagecore girls actually try to can their own food and make their own jam and have their own garden instead of going to Costco for everything
I’ve been in two hippie communities, one rural, one definitely not. Gardens, preservation (including jams), some clothing construction, and crafts to sell.
So, these are basically fascist back to the landers.
I teased one of these prepper women at a garden center who was bragging about her shit hit fan garden.
“So you are a hippie?”
“NO!!!!”
“Oh, you are forming a commune?”
“NO!!!!!”
Cottagecore also seems very aware that it's just a fantasy and aesthetic, instead of a deeply held part of your identity. Maybe that's because cottagecore doesn't involve guns. Yet.
I think there's a difference between a desire to know traditional skills like canning and gardening because you enjoy them, and learning those skills so you can prove your neighbors wrong when whatever contrived disaster scenario you're imagining happens and everyone comes crawling to you because you are the only one who has 43 pallets of Spam and a bunch of gold bullion buried in strategic locations around your compound. I'd argue cottagecore is more of an outgrowth of hipster nostalgia, just with plants and learning to cross stitch instead of vintage cassette tapes or whatever.
Side note: there's also a huge philosophical difference between prepping for being the lone badass who survives the breakdown of society, and prepping to be able to help your neighbors in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency. Having some shelf stable food, first aid supplies and the knowledge to use them, and enough gear to sleep outside without dying is a very good idea. Ditto with keeping important documents and a bit of cash somewhere relatively easy to access in case you need to leave your house in a hurry (like if your homemade still for making barter moonshine catches on fire). The more prepared you are, the less strain you'll place on communal resources, and the more you can contribute to helping your neighbors.
to me, cottagecore isn't about survival or isolation, it's about minimalism and simple living. it's a fantasy of living as a medieval peasant but without the disease and horribleness that the medieval period entails. its an aesthetic, particularly popular with lesbians because of how female centric it is
Tbh I don't fully believe that. As a girl(tm) who likes Cottagecore a lot and has been into it for maybe 4-5 years now. The appeal isn't so much "I wanna live away from society so that when it eventually collapses I'll be safe"
It's more so just "modern day society can be very stressful and hectic, how nice would it be to live a more sustainable life where I'm surrounded by nature rather than destroying it"
Doomsday prepping seems to come from a place of fear/weird murder fantasies??
Cottagecore comes from a place of wanting to be more sustainable, slower paced. And at peace
“Climate change and nuclear war and the least “likely” scenarios”.....Hahahaha what? Wow some preppers really are clowns
It’s actually kind of comforting, not because it makes me worry less about climate change or nukes or that some preppers actually know what they are doing, but rather it reveals such a awful nihilistic fashh worldview is BS
I’ve heard of prepping from the perspective of helping others and I like that idea a lot more
Prepping has a really bad rap from nutjobs who fantasise being the protagonist of Mad Max or something, but actual prepping, and not just LARPing as a future Fallout protagonist, is something everyone should be doing on some level. SHTF doesn’t have to be an apocalyptic event or even a natural disaster, it could be something as mundane as economic downturn.
Yeah I myself have gotten into a bunch of bushcraft stuff as of late, it’s also just really fun to do to camp out you know?
@@Colddirector Oh? Is there a name for this specific subgenre of prepping?
@@-_-3315 something like Agorism
When was the last time you woke up with a sense of peace?
Feeling unfulfilled? Paranoid? A nervous wreck?
Relationships slowly eroding beyond repair?
Does you skin crawl with fear and anxiety?
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
YOU ARE IN HELL!
nice name change.
No, I'm fine.
Ho it was this morning, thanks for asking.
The part where Doomsday's preppers are waiting for their 2k town to be invaded gives me major The invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) vibes
Funny enough, the first First Blood movie had pretty strong anti-police harassment and anti-war messaging. A key point of the film is how much the war, and his training, screwed Rambo up.
The next movies clearly threw those messages out the window though and they became nothing more than mindless propaganda (especially Rambo III).
Curiously enough, a very similar thing happened with the Rocky franchise.
@Mitchell Griner Yeah, at the end of the film they still try to shoehorn in the "everybody was spitting on 'Nam vets and listening to those damn dirty hippies" nonsense. It directly contradicts its own anti-war messaging from adapting the book, by shitting on anti-war activists as a scapegoat right at the end.
Here's a Gullgutten branded fun fact: Did you know... The same boy what played The Rambo also played The Rocky? Coincidence? I think not.
Robocop to degree too tbh.
I LOVE that you got Beau to read a part for this video omg
Looked for someone saying this before I commented. Me too! Was a delight.
Doomdays preppers: "I have enough non-perishable food that'll last me for years!"
Me: "Costco had a sale on gigantic cans of chocolate pudding!"
Me: Do they have tapioca?
Also I definitely first read this as "doomsday peppers"
Doomsday Pepper Challenge doesn’t even really sound worse than Ghost Pepper or Carolina Reaper Challenge.
@@5RRRtarRiver id def order some doomsday pepper wings
Doomsday Peppers sounds like a Regular Ordinary Swedish Mealtime vid. Now you've made me nostalgic.
I’d grow those. Vinegar based sauce. Fermented.
@@truepeacenik an actual good skill for the end of the world
Prepper ideology is so weird to me, and it's something I really think needs to be examined in more detail because it reveals so much about American conservativism and broader ideology. Thank you for covering this, this video is really good!
It will make sense when they start saying to go cashless and get a microchip from your gov tech daddy Elon musk.
@@mangakatanaka3067 lmao wut
@@seachelle2316 they want you to merge with technology or they will try and kill you.
@@mangakatanaka3067 *they*
It reveals the fear, insecurity and alpha fantasies.
“the antifa are gonna get hungry”
me: im hungy i want chiccy nuggies
Nope, only hempseed-lentil-chickpea fritters for you!
Though, let's be honest, anything's good if you deep fry it.
@@dakunssd Ayo, you got a recipe for that?
@@ls-rk6hw Roast the hempseeds in a dry pan, cook both lentils and chickpeas till tender then drain, reserving some (or all) of the cooking water from the chickpeas. Process lentis and chickpeas, mixing in the hempseed, some chopped or powdered garlic, pinch of tumeric, pinch of corianderseed, pinch of allspice, big pinch of cumin, pinch of chili flakes and pinch of sumac and salt and pepper to taste (or whatever spices you like). While processing add in some of the chickpea cooking water to bind and moisten somewhat. Mixture should have the consistency of a stiff cookie dough. Scoop out balls the size of small eggs and set aside in the fridge, uncovered. After an hour or so, fry your fritters in peanut oil, or flatten them out and shallow fry them in a heavy, cast iron or steel pan on high, till golden and crispy. Set on paper towel to drain, and dip in whatever. Basically just like falafel. You can do all kinds of stuff with the chickpea cooking water, use it like egg whites, or add to vegetarian soup or chili like stock.
@@dakunssd you are a genius thank you
your delivery of "anti-fascist thugs" has me in stitches
the rest of the video was also pretty interesting, i guess
i feel like most of my breadtube comments are "as a native american", but i might as well embrace it... anyway! love the video, love your channel, newly subscribed. that said, environmentalism doesnt need to suck, nor does it necessarily have to be at odds with modern comfort.. its just that indigenous lifestyles are way different than the white christian concepts of conquer and colonialism and shit that have gotten us into Modern Capitalist Hell World that people imagine to be a "necessary evil" for comfort and advancement. like, you talk about the cowboy fantasy - but the americas weren't an untamed, all natural wild. they were beautiful because of the concerted landscaping efforts we did! we just developed in a way that worked WITH the land instead of against it, so it appeared that the americas were just "naturally" bountiful and beautiful to the ignorant eye. why does shifting our way of life for environmentalism have to suck? i'm barely scratching the surface here, but TL;DR, if any of you want to step up your anarcho-communist game, deffo read up on decolonization and native american environmentalism.
Yeah, I think the idea that healing the environment would require giving up the good things about modern life is primarily down to a lack of imagination about how the good things in modern life can be maintained (or what those good things are, for that matter).
Any specific readings you or anyone else would like to recommend would be appreciated!
@@corvuscallosum5079 A really good book about the historical differences between between colonial and indigenous mindsets with regards to the environment is Changes in the Land by William Cronon. It focuses more on New England and mostly on the initial settlements by English colonizers, but it's very eye-opening
I would say that for at least a generation life is going to kind of suck as we start rebuilding basically every system that we currently live by to work in a sustainable way but hopefully we get to retire and the next generation gets to come of age in a pretty rad world
I agree. I'd like for those who can to plant food forests and gardens. And put in beehives, must keep and protect the lovely bees! Fields of grain aren't really great for the environment or for nutrition overall, and they're basically barren as far as bees are concerned. Sure grain's a good filler, but if you grow enough real food you don't need much filler.
I know this is a bit silly but I'm fascinated by the humble potato. It can grow almost anywhere, in relatively poor soil and you can live on them pretty easily. They have all the vitamins one needs to be healthy. They're starchy, filling and I dare say, delicious. If anything like this ever happens, learn how to grow potatoes.
All hail the hearty spud, staple food of my broke-ass ancestors for many generations.
@@Kropothead Lol. I'm Irish too. Well, my ancestors were anyway.
the only problem i see with this strategy is (in a nuclear war scenario or tsnumai scenario) where will you find soil that is not contaminated (via radiation or Salt)?!
remember that when Chernobyl happened the Soviet army had to scrub the top soil layer (1m) from the entire area, everywhere and put an anti-fallout spread product on the whole exclusion zone so it would not spread (the soil there is a no-go and anything that grows there is unfit for any animal consuption... basically forever). now tell me then: who is gonna do this if fallout is everywhere after the explosion?! once the bombs drops, unless you got a greenhouse, soil will not be your friend. heck, even the soil in a greenhouse will be limited and end at some time, so it is a case of kicking the can down the road, really.
also in the case of a Tsunami, ok, you might find good land upstream, but not only it might be limited (especially if you are on a relative flat island like the Hawaiian islands), not to mention anything that gets submerged will be contaminated with sea salt, and that's reeeealy no good, and even potatos are not big fans of sea salt in soil.
another problem will be water: how will you irrigate the potatoes?! in the case of a nuclear detonation, Rain water will have fallout on it, and rivers will be VERY contaminated, given how they are usually excelent fallout accumulators (that's why for example the water in the Fallout series is still highly radioactive even after 200 years from the detonations). you water it with contaminated water and things will NOT go well for whom eats it, i guarantee it.
not to mention fertilizers (most come form Russia and well... not only the factories for it will be destroyed/abandoned. there will be no supply chain left to bring it for you. it is not deal breaker but it is a big problem you would need to pay atention if you plant the soil multiple times, given how it can become "tired" (that is, exausted of nutrients that needs to be replaced if you do monoculture. tired is the expression we use here in Brazil) ), and the climate itself (nuclear winter which can devastate your chances of growing anything for a decade or more).
honestly, imo, when this happens, the only food available will be the food that was done before the war, without any chance to replenish it. trying to grow any significant ammount of food will be next to impossible with fallout arround, and most definitively unsafe leading to a very painfull death via radiation sickness. even unprotected pre-war food will not be safe given how dust will be radioactive, and if it lands on it = death. and the expiration dates, which ranges at best of the best scenarios for 2 years (the only thing i've seen survive more was honey in glass jars, but i guarantee no human will survive for long eating only honey). so, yeah... it is kicking the can down the road. even if a "preper" has food with shelf lifes of 50 years or so, what he forgets to think is the day-after problem: when the food runs out, or expires, without any possibility of planting/growing/farming whatsoever. the food that can be eaten will run out eventually is what i mean, and nothing will be left to eat (at least in the best case scenario in the nothern hemisphere where the bombs will be more prevalent), so there will be despair of either starving, or eating something that can kill via illness (bacteria, virus and etcetera, given how sterilization will NOT be an option without electricity), or radiation sickenss, which again, is not a good time at all.
@@marcossonicracer I don't mean to get to involved in all this. You can figure all that out at your leisure. I just think they'd be a good survival crop. I didn't mean to imply they'd be the answer to any scenario. And I don't see how any one scenario is any more likely than another. I read a book about an EMP that wiped out all the electronics. They had to learn how to make knives and find food turn away the thousands of migrants trying to find somewhere. No electricity is worse than you might think. Or some think there will be an economic collapse or an ecological disaster or even a plague. Who knows?
Often potatoes at home are grown in 5 gallon buckets. It's just easier. So you can compost your own soil and use whatever water you have. If you don't have access to those things, you're probably screwed anyway.
That all depends on the number of weapons used. And the number of nuclear weapons on the planet changes every year. I read this other book that took place in Australia, far from any nuclear explosions so they were all alive at that point but the winds would eventually cycle down and basically, everyone dies. Yeah, it was a bummer of a book. If there's enough fallout to kill any new crop from growing, that's basically it for the human race. Sure, there are scenarios that bad. It could happen. Who knows? Or it could be way less severe. Or any level in between. From what I hear, it's not likely to happen at all but no one knows for sure. But if something does happen, it would probably be a good idea to have a seed potato or two around. It's not like I keep them around.
@@PaulTheSkeptic yeah, figures, i think you got a good analysis for other kinds of situations (like an EMP from non-nuclear sources). imo, aside for catstrophic meteor impact (for which really there is literally nothing that can be done except get out of the way), there is only but a couple of global scenarios where humanity would really not be able to bounce back in my view,and both involve radiation (CME/Cosmic Gama Burst and Nuclear war). if humanity got a non-nuclear EMP scenario i think it could, given time, survive. wouldn't be easy but possible.
what i tend to not agree with people most of the time is that a lot of people tend to underestimate nulcear war, and these people only focus on the more immediate effects (flash,fallout,shelter,immediate food), forgeting the more nuanced but even more deadlier factors that often have no connections to the weapons itself (supply chain destruction, Soil Radiation absorption, Water Radiation absorption, gradual failure of components on directly non-attacked areas... stuff like that). maybe because i live in an area that theorically (not impossible but improbable) would not be much prone to being hit by nuclear weapons (Brazil), that i tend to think more ahead and not on those immediate issues.
like... there can be zero bombs droping on my head, but i can see for example our renewable energy grid having major problems (which has its advantages being renewable, but has in normal times a consistency worse than tissue paper, imagine when a worldwide crisis hits us), since we tend to import our components from overseas (and there was a major blackout this year alone that basically got all of the big continental country. it was BAD, and we had to replace imported components. imagine if a turbine from Itaipu, that comes form Siemens Germany cannot be imported because there is no germany anymore), then we having problems with ferilizers, since even tho our soil is very fertile, we use massive ammounts of fertilizers to boost our production to feed our population (220 Million) and export to other countries. our fertilizer comes from Russia and Canada, Nuclear War equals no Russia and Canada anymore so we can get our fertilizer, you see. not to mention, what we tend to produce here (Soy, Eucalyptus,Corn,Sugarcane) is more exported than consumed locally, and even tho we have a lot of production of stuff that we consume locally, we tend to import a LOT of food too (rice, wheat, oats, beans... especially weath that we consume everyday with pasta, and bread, and beans, which are consumed in lunchtime), so we would lose a lot of staple foods we eat if for example Ukraine, Russia, U.S., Canada, China, and others simply ceased to exist (destroyed supply chain, remember?). it already was a huge heavy hit with COVID, and a lot of people downplay nowadays, how we here had to content with a lot of stuff going stratospheric in price at that time, imagine when there is no substitute. ya know?! again, i tend to think more ahead on the aftermarth, like one,two,three years after the disaster when the real nasty stuff that doesn't kill instantly, but kills later on appears... and i don't think humanity is well equiped to deal with one two punches, all the time and compounded stuff failing one after another.
honestly, i think you guys on the nothern hemisphere are lucky: you got an EAS to warn you if it gonna happen while we got nothing. and honestly, in my opinion will go on tthe white flash or short after it. much less suffering than we might endure here, surviving in a world, where honestly, if push comes to shove, i don't think it's worth surviving at all. there is people here that says: "let them fight, we don't have anything to do with it", but they don't realize it affects us, as much as affects you guys. we probably would be fine one, two, three days, maybe some weeks, but the problems would appear fast, stuff that we depend from out of the country would break, and that, would get us too.
also in prepping and this barter-precognition i see a dire need to "invest in google in 1998", to play out "a guy who thoght ahead and now quadrillionare"
Did he really just shave that amazingly glorious mane of luscious hair for art?what a comrade
My housemate and I sometimes play around with ideas about hypothetical apocalyptic scenarios, including that of a zombie apocalypse, just for the hell of it. Difference between me and him is that he likes fire arms more while I focus on herbalism and foraging lol. We both definitely know that in reality we'd end up dead, though, b/c both of us are chronically ill and he's an older guy. Eh. . . maybe I'll write that zombie fic someday anyway. . . lol
I wonder how many people would stop being in cults if we started reminding adults that it's okay to play pretend if you want.
This is the adult version of saving the highschool from terrorists heroicly as a boy and finally impress your crush.
Rebrand so good I actually have already forgotten what your old YT name was...
edit: or it could be the wine doing that.
gotta appreciate the commitment to the bit to shave that gorgeous hair. Dig the name change, too
Oh, man. You're too good at acting. Like you could chop out the bits that are the doomsday prepper personality and not know they were a bit. Terrifying. (And also, good job.)
Young (leftist) prepper here. Most prepping communities consist mostly of homesteaders looking to live more independently and people invested in disaster preparedness. Shows like doomsday preppers only look for the (often batshit crazy) outliers, the conspiracy theorists and castle-building-blade-wielding-mad-max wannabe’s. Ofcourse there are some of those in the community, but most preppers are just looking to comfortably survive any storm/fire/whatever disaster, that from time to time occurs. Most preppers are also in the closet about their prepping, since being a known prepper leaves you open to more attention from burglars and thieves in a worst-case-scenario.
Ohhh, "rebrand" huh? Always good to see a new video!
Probably a good move career-wise; although I did have a personal fondness for SatanicBurntOffering420, or whatever it was.
@@harrietpotter649 lmao. I have to agree though, his previous channel name seemed like it would only undermining his points and hold his channel back despite the quality content.
"What is trash may never die"
I need that written on my grave.
13:40 on this one I agree with film theory: when the zombie apocalypse inevitably happens, guns will do more harm than good and aren’t as useful in the long run. Knives however are far more versatile. You can open boxes, use them for self defense, use them for spiritual practices, eat with them, etc
BG666 is dead. Long live We're In Hell.
I was very confused. So the channel name was changed?
@@zellfaze yup
LONG LIVE
@@hiruyabebaw807 hey me on another account
Hello, denizens of hell : P
My hubby and I are what we jokingly call "lite preppers". Basically, we can do stuff and have stuff and are weary of our neighbors knowing any of this... but it's due to coping with ptsd more than anything else. "Be prepared" helps us feel like we have some semblance of control. Sure, we don't know what's coming or when, but we have the basics to survive and that's a comfort to us.
Awesome video! Growing up I always liked the post apocalyptic stories and games but my asthma is a guarantee that I would never survive one. I’ve never been one to want to stock up for an “end of days” thing but I do have a decent medical kit. I realized first aid kits were important back when I traveled as a transient for about 8 years, sleeping outside, hitchhiking, hoping trains. You never know when you need good bandages until there’s blood. I finally settled down about 3 years ago and got a nice job and now I own my first ever bed frame and more clothes and stuff than I’ve ever had in my life. Then this whole pandemic happened and my doctor told me that I’d be screwed if I got it. So I have no job again and I’m a bit worried I’ll be homeless again. It’s not the outdoors that scares me but the idiots not wearing masks do. Keep the content coming, this hermit life is dull.
1 year ago:( hows it going man??
Magnetic reversal is a real thing and could start to happen in our lifetimes but it's VERY unlikely to cause some some kind of apocalypse
But like... all the pigeons would go the wrong way! And everyone's compasses would be upside-down! How would we navigate/use carrier pigeons?!
We gotta start doomsday prepping with... GPS navigation and more reliable internet connections!
actually the magnetic poles shifting could result in the magnetosphere not blocking solar radiation. which would be apocalyptic.
@@PaddyCollector not really an eventuality that stockpiled guns can protect you from though
@@PaddyCollector That wouldn't actually happen. During a transition, the magnetic field doesn't wink out of existence - the poles wouldn't reverse if that happened, they'd just disappear.
Instead the poles form chaotically as the dominant magnetic iron segments vie against each other in various alignments and the field contracts a little as a result. We might lose some upper satellites, but even if we got hit with a massive solar flare at the time it still wouldn't be apocalyptic (or rather, if it were apocalyptic, it wouldn't be because of any issue of the magnetosphere).
@@Zahaqiel I guess I meant more "apocalyptic". if the poles shifted in a way that left certain areas of the earth less protected from solar radiation that could cause terrible weather events.
My main takeaways from the apocalyptic literature class I took in college were 1) dealing with the issues in our current world is too hard wouldn’t it just be easier if we blew this one up & started fresh without 2) any consideration as to who would remain vs who would be the most vulnerable in any apocalyptic situation. So what that amounts to in combination is a fantasy scenario where all the undesirables are destroyed & it wasn’t ur fault/ur not the bad guy (cowboy voice) you’re just trying to survive. Or whatever. So yeah, the fascism connections are absolutely there. (I recommend octavia butler tho!!)
I have read about preparing for climate change, much of it revolves around increasing food security, sustainable farming and community resilience. I think it may be that last one that turns off the preppers.
Damn it! They got me. I watched 2 and a half minutes of an ad for a prepper book before realizing it wasn't just an example you were showing in your video. :O
I tend to keep a small amount of extra things on hand. This comes from experience of what happens if you aren't working or just being frugal and buying multiple items or bulk as I can. It has paid off many times when either my husband or I haven't been working or even when we've been sick and just didn't make it to the grocery store for an extra week. Because of the pandemic (all that damned panic buying) and how I can see that the economy is not as good as Trump and his cronies like to say it is, I've actually been setting aside more than normal. I realize that this is about anxiety since the future seems more uncertain than normal. At the same time, I'm not waiting for the world to end and chaos to reign, just allowing myself a cushion of 'safety'. But isn't it that same sense of wanting safety and certainty that motivates 'preppers'? I'd say it is. At the same time, when I hear 'preppers' talking about having guns and being able to 'defend themselves' against thugs and criminals and the impending chaos, I just seriously have no idea how you can counter that because it's all based on their emotions and feelings even if they try to act like it's 'rational'.
I'm just sitting here trying to clean the smudge off my screen while it's actually on his wall (-.-')
I did this several times.
I’m not a prepper but I live in Texas and during the winter freeze my house had all the supplies we needed. Everyone in my family is trained in basic first aid and CPR and we always have about 20 gallons of water and three weeks worth of food on hand. This is mostly for hurricanes but worked well during the freeze. We melted snow for extra water and cooked enough food for all our neighbors when many started to loose power. In a realistic survival situation you don’t shoot your neighbors, you take care of them.
I loved the story the lady posted of her prepper brother who went out to his prepper cabin and complained he didn't have heat because it was gas and his can opener was electric and the electricity was out.
This reminded me of a post about someone's brother was a doomsday prepper but was struggling miserably during the Texas winter power outage of 2021.
U gotta luv how conservative nd doomsday prepper basically admit that we live in a society full of resources that people became "soft" and lazy and need to go back to the primitive days but they also reee at distributing the goods so some people have a chance to survive ..
this reminds me of dragons comparing hoards.
I appreciated the Full Metal Alchemist reference because that's my favorite doomsday scenario.
Right in the middle of the gun training montage, I got an ad saying how "inconvenient" going to a shooting range is holy cow
Good stuff. R/collapse has seen an influx of gun nuts lately, actively influencing young fragile minds and it's depressing. Still community minded people there of course, keep the spirit alive!!
@Ma Rk before the pandemic it was just us crying about climate change but now that's been drowned out
Yeah I found that group early on in the pandemic but backed out pretty quickly because of that kind of disturbing conservative fantasy prepping but also some of the posts really just got depressing and it felt like there was no hope or point to prepping or learning skills because whatever everything sucks nothing we can do but die.
Gun nuts? Leftists with guns are the most based thing of all. so called "leftists" who are anti-gun who call others who see the value in such are basically a joke when it comes to left-wing praxis or any meaningful change.
I would love to see a discussion between this channel and some of my favorite prepper channels, Urban Prepper, Survival Lilly, and City Prepper. They're not exactly comrades but might be allies.
Either way I wish most prepper channels would do more to discourage the crueler and reactionary members of their audiences.
I was so excited to hear my dude from Spice 8 Rack in there. Awesome video man.
5:27 there is def a difference from prep tips I see online (learn to sew/repair clothes, set up a community garden, etc) and these almost iconic type of doomsday preppers
This video essay is awesome, thank you very much for doing this.
4' In realistic terms, those who lived through the latter years of the USSR probably have a head start toward dealing with the SHTF scenarios that are actually most likely to happen.
Oh, and a dab of advice from those who went through the 1989 Quebec power outrage might also go a long way.
Congratulations on the rapid growth! Keep growing!
your delivery on that monologue around 23 min was fantastic
17:00 i really can't understand this type of prospective at all lmao. though im definitely dissatisfied with society and life n stuff, absolutely none of that comes from "not facing enough hardship." for me as a black lgbtq person, and really just a lower middle class person existing in a capitalist society, there is more than enough hardship in my life. not once have i thought "i hate having somewhere to live and general access to resources i need to survive. if only there was an apocalypse to make me feel human again!"
this is only speculation on my part but i really think this sort of perspective can only come to be in someone with too much privilege. their lives *are* cushy, they're able to freely and actively participate in consumerism without worry bc they have money to blow. not to mention just how expensive prepping is as a hobby. if you feel like you've lost touch of your humanity because you're not struggling enough, that's because you don't know what it's like to actually struggle. i guarantee you you wouldnt catch someone whos extremely poor, physically disabled, or someone with literally any other condition that seriously affects your quality of life being a prepper for this specific reason.
Ehhh. I think it's a bit more complicated than that, there is a lot of oppression for the average person even of white higher-middle class (basically just poor lower-class anyways nowadays) because a lot of modern people from my understanding unironically hate the world and I don't doubt a fair share of people unironically would rather live in an apocalypse than continuing to be atomized automatons rather than genuine people who can actually live as people did for generations before hand with all it's faults. That being said it's very obvious preppers are pretty screwed in the head and many appear to have some pretty evident sociopathic tendencies and don't really care much about the welfare of other people and see them either as a threat or a resource to be exploited.
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I didn't come here for FMA:B references but hey, win:win.
Literally half way into the video I got an ad for a doomsday prepper book. It's a book that claims that the only way to survive the looming apocalypse by learning the ways of the American Pioneers.
Note that that skill set doesn't include plumbing, so welcome back cholera
"I'm a survivor, we're a dying breed" -Xavier Renegade Angel
As someone who has existed on the borders of the prepper community for many years, I have to say that this video is spot on for the most visible portions of that bunch. It has, historically, been very right wing leaning. One thing that I have been seeing recently is a shift though. Likely due to the global crisis there have been a lot of younger, more left leaning folks coming into the community. Some groups I know of, mostly ones from FB, have railed against this change and have been tearing themselves apart. Others have adapted. And some newer ones that embrace liberal, and even leftist, ideologies have started to come forward. The biggest distinction is in the focus of the philosophy. "Traditional" prepper mentality, or at least the ones that have gotten attention, have been very individualistic in philosophy. But for many, especially in these new spaces, it is about helping ones community. There have also always been "levels" of preppers. The ones who go full bunker and ammo hording are definitely a thing, and quite frankly terrify me, but they are not the majority of the community. For most people it is keeping jumper cables in your car, or if you live in a place that gets super cold temperatures having a plan in case you lose heat, or an idea of what to do if a tornado/wildfire/flood happens depending on what is likely in your area. You definitely did an excellent job of covering the history of the preparedness community, it's something that is important to talk about. But I hope that you would consider looking into some of the other parts of the community too, particularly the leftist prepping movement. Maybe your video could direct someone who just wants to learn how to prepare for whatever type of natural disaster is common to their area to a group that ins't built on fearmongering.
Eh, a lot of mainstream preppers still seem fairly right-wing. And I don't see anarchists prepping for the collapse anytime soon.
Like the new branding 👍
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so glad I found your channel!
Just found myou through the recrommendations! Excited to binge your videos.
I feel like most doomsday prepping starts from a place of actual concern and rapidly deviates into a fantasyland. My aunt has been pumping out crazed conspiracies about how 'the Antifa' are going to besiege her neighborhood and I'd laugh it off except for a time she wouldn't come see her newborn niece because 'there have been so many protests' and she 'feared being alone in her car if the Antifa sieged it'. In the fantasyland of doomsday prepping any absurd belief you have can be bottled up as 'just getting ready' or 'just preparing'. Saying you think a horde of college kids are going to swarm across suburbia? Moronic and you'll be called so. Buying some guns with that in the back of your mind? Just being ready for anything. I mean, if I just said I have a wonky aunt with a couple guns, sans the absurd Antifa fantasy, that would be pretty much a non-story.
First time stumbling across the channel. I'm surprised the sub count is so low given the age of the channel and the quality of the work.
The RUclips gods truly are cruel. Here's a sub and a share for your troubles 👍
I hope that this is the beginnings of a long and hilariously entertaining career.....great job!