I think it suits the communist view of life.
prepping as if you’ll be the local warlord
prepping as if you’ll be a refugeeI think that may only apply if the prepping involves an entire community, otherwise it is individualistic and somewhat anti-social.
My community’s full of hard-right crackers; my prepping is a defense mechanism against them lmfao
I’m same boat. I’m surrounded by fash so I prep but also just assume I’ll get murdered in my sleep for my buckets of dried beans.
If you are preparing of end of the world yes. You need people on your side not just supplies. For smaller disasters even if individualistic a good prep will give you an advantage I’d say
Isn’t prepping in practice very individualist? When I think of prepping I think of a white American man sitting in a bunker filled with guns, ammunition and canned food.
I think particularly of the one Texan man who could not even open his cans of beans (he was using an electric can opener) when the disaster he had prepared for his entire adult life finally happened.
Sounds like harlan ellison’s “i have no mouth and i must scream” but in a lame chud way
There are definitely left wing, collective, community focused prepping folks. They’re largely anarchists, I’ve noticed. But that’s way fucking better than some dipshit chud LARPer thinking he’s gonna be a fucking warlord.
A prepper without a posse is an IRL lootbox for the local organized crime.
Like prepping for social collapse?
Have enough dry store food/supplies for a month or two in case there are shortages in the shops, like at the start of Covid. And it’s not a bad idea to be prepared with warm, waterproof clothes, a torch, first aid kit, bottled water. A good knife. Basically the gear you’d take on a week’s camping trip.
Otherwise, it’s a waste of time. If you ever need to switch to being self-sustained because the government has broken down, the only thing that’ll keep you alive is by forming new social organisations and working together.
If you have 100 tins and no running water to cook pasta, that’s only 30 days food for one person, two weeks for a couple, maybe a week for a family of three. Add in sharing your stores to help people in need and it’s impractical for an individual to prep enough to keep society going.
Essentially, prepare to be useful to others and not a drain on them if shit hits the fan. Because the most important thing will be contributing to put a new society together as quickly as possible.
If you’re interested in leftist prepping I highly recommend the Poor Proles Almanac podcast. They talk about the possibility of collapse and the necessity of surviving not just through stockpiling but through community. They teach stuff about farming to provide for your community etc.
As climate change makes catastrophic events more frequent, preparing for them become more important. Food, water, and medical supplies are probably going to be more important than firearms, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a gun.
A lot of the conservative community has ruined the image of the word, so a lot of the time it makes sense to call it “preparing” or “preparedness” or “disaster preparedness” instead. Those are the terms the Red Cross uses, so it has a more positive connotation.
I personally enjoy the idea of community wide prepping, rather than a person by person thing. Mutual aid is important, and most events that need heavy prepping will affect more than just you.
Buy yourselves a Victorinox Ranger ($60) for life, best SAK. Get their firestarter addon for like $5, that fits into the corkscrew. Single biggest “prep” item and BIFL upgrade to life. Boomers are now handing over their old Huntsman SAKs to children. Get fit and learn to survive on low food and water.
The next step is community rebuilding, not becoming a lonewolf guerilla Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone, which is only helpful in apocalypse.
tl;dr: Prepare with your community, but also for humanity. Otherwise, it’s just fantastical propertarianism…
Prepping as in hoarding resources? I’m not so big into that. Prepping so that I and a group over dozens, to hundreds, to thousands of miles could maintain communications? That shit’s my special interest.
I definitely feel like I could be a much better communist and find and culture actual relationships and arrangements with others to improve situations for us all.
Not just stockpiling, but also learning the necessary skills.
I could DEF learn a lot more in that department. Especially in the realm of farming and food storage
There’s a lot of variables, I’d say. It makes perfect sense to stockpile extra non-perishables and other things in preparation for climate-related or political disasters, because they’re coming. That’s just the truth. But the way you do it matters.
Obviously you can’t just have a bunker full of shit and be done with it. You need skills, and most importantly, COMMUNITY. The notion that chuds have that they can just get a bunch of guns and be independent entirely is just… ridiculous. We’ve never survived that way, we never will.
TLDR: Prepping good, if you do it as a community/with a few other people. Prepping silly if purely individualistic (for the end of the world, I mean. Not for just surviving a natural disaster)
I think it’s fun. The feeling of being prepared for emergencies or just when you want to GTFO give a sense of security in your life.
In a certain way my life is about prepping. I went into the health field because I wanted to have skills useful for society, not just in collapse but right now.
I’m preparing myself mentally for witnessing the horrific things I’m likely to witness prior to my imminent demise… Mainly because I find that preferable to the world I’d have to struggle to survive in.
Most of it is just whackerism and it sometimes even veers into fascism. The main question is, what exactly are they preparing for?
I heavily disagree. Knowing what to do and having supplies when a natural or man made disaster occurs is preparing. Where would you even get the idea of fascism?
I do not think prepping is inherently fascist, but the “prepping community” in USA has a lot of fascism
That I would agree.
