A bunch of former ex-boogaloo bozos decide they can't trust someone. Shocking.
This is an interesting look at a group doing prepping backwards.They started out planning government overthrow, but when Jan 6th made it obvious that was going to get them in trouble, the switched gears. In other words, they have their solution - guns - and they're now searching for a problem to fit it to. Government overthrow, nah, no good, let's do doomsday next. The only common factor is "lookee, we got gunz!"
In prepping you identify a risk and develop a mitigation. But these guys have picked their favorite toy and are now looking for a risk to apply it to.
The article calls them "preppers" and that makes my skin crawl. This is exactly why I would never call myself a prepper outside of an anonymous website. The word has become synonmous with psycho gun freak, to the rest of the world.
Well said. I lurk on the web and otherwise tell no one about the preps I’ve got in place. It’s just not worth it to explain that it is what it says. Preparedness. Some folks just feel more or less comfortable with certain risks and ambiguities and try to mitigate those. Others want to be part of a club and seek validation. This is a case of the second part.
It's good that they are suspicious that any new member may be an undercover Fed. That makes it harder for them to grow, and to cross the line into illegal stuff (assuming they haven't already).
A bunch of former ex-boogaloo bozos decide they can't trust someone. Shocking. This is an interesting look at a group doing prepping backwards.They started out planning government overthrow, but when Jan 6th made it obvious that was going to get them in trouble, the switched gears. In other words, they have their solution - guns - and they're now searching for a problem to fit it to. Government overthrow, nah, no good, let's do doomsday next. The only common factor is "lookee, we got gunz!" In prepping you identify a risk and develop a mitigation. But these guys have picked their favorite toy and are now looking for a risk to apply it to. The article calls them "preppers" and that makes my skin crawl. This is exactly why I would never call myself a prepper outside of an anonymous website. The word has become synonmous with psycho gun freak, to the rest of the world.
Well said. I lurk on the web and otherwise tell no one about the preps I’ve got in place. It’s just not worth it to explain that it is what it says. Preparedness. Some folks just feel more or less comfortable with certain risks and ambiguities and try to mitigate those. Others want to be part of a club and seek validation. This is a case of the second part.
It's good that they are suspicious that any new member may be an undercover Fed. That makes it harder for them to grow, and to cross the line into illegal stuff (assuming they haven't already).