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This will happen in the US eventually.
This is why even though I am as staunch a gold bug as they come, I have consistently for years told everybody it is prudent to keep a decent amount of cash.
and I do not mean a checking account. I mean cold hard cash, paper in your hand.
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Source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The sad part is that you don't even realize that you are not accusing.
You are confessing.
I'm already open about my love of big naturals. I have nothing to fear
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The preppers are wrong - nobody needs a 72hr kit.
You should have preparations for far more serious disruptions than that.
All you need to survive 72 hrs is a couple gallons of water. Maybe a small heater in some areas if you are in the dead of winter. Thats it. If you think there will only ever be disruptions of 72 hours or less, then you barely need to bother preparing.
But if anything happens that is serious enough to disrupt utilities, internet, emergency services, whatever for more 72 hours - you better be ready to survive without any outside support for 2 weeks at a minimum. Personally in today's perilous times I think 90 days of at least basic preps is a bare minimum.
While I am not a crypto hater, and still think it will benefit greatly in the initial stages of the eventual flight from fiat currency, these events show how there is just such massive counterparty risk on both sides.
Of course we have the badnit risk, but beyond that, If they have the ability to freeze it to combat hackers, they can freeze it for other reasons too.
PLEASE do not listen to this, people. I implore you.
The next 10 to 15 years may be the most crucial time to save money in human history, as there is an extremely high likelihood that if the AI tech advances to the extent people like Elon predict it will not lead to individual freedom and abundance, but rather to an inescapable form of neo-serfdom.
The average global standard of living may be slightly higher, but with zero social mobility and no way to actually gain ownership of anything you didn't already have.
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I did this 5 years ago. SO MANY people laughed at me when I told them this...
Catch up people. It's not too late to be ready for all the "emergencies" that are incoming.
How they are showing up to invite @MindsetVet to the BIG ARCH tasting
While everyone should have an answer to this, it probably is best to not post some of it publicly.
That being said, there are some passive preparations everyone should take for general security:
1. Window cages/ bars or at least security film.
2. Security door/ storm door.
3. Upgraded strike plate/ scews on main door.
4. MULTIPLE Fire extinguishers (fire is a frequent tool of agitators. )
5. Less than lethal dispersal options:
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Do any of you have a plan for this? They're looting stores now, but there are reports that suburbs are being targeted too. Eventually the stores will be empty and the city centers burned, leaving only the suburbs.
Do you have a realistic plan for when they come down your street?
France is in that weird stage where they should be tir à la mitrailleuse at the mobs but they aren't, meaning that even if you had a fusil you couldn't get away with doing it. That awkward time will come in the United States and you need a plan that isn't "sh00t fucking everybody."
I've got books dedicated to that exact proposition. Eventually, this ethnic warfare will devolve beyond "mere" rioting. You will want to check out guys like @Brushbeater @DolioJ
I reject the labeling of this condition as "empathy", because the problem here is the exact opposite. It is pathological altruism. SYMPATHY for what they imagine are these peoples' feelings or motivations.
The one thing it is NOT is true empathy. Because if they actually understood and empathized with them, there would be no suprise or misunderstanding.
You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for."
Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it."
I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy.
The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us.
Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat.
Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces.
Where does it come from? Four layers.
First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country.
Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else.
Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do.
Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night.
The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct.
Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say.
On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength.
But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration.
This is where men have a responsibility.
Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves.
Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends.
That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women.
Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street.
A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left.
Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough.
Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.
Weird situation. Some reports claim ruptured gas lines....on a live fire range?!
With HUNDREDS of injuries? Sounds like some Men In Black bs
Hospitals across Alberta, Canada are reportedly being overwhelmed by the number of injured from the ongoing major fire at CFB Wainwright, the cause and extent of which is still unknown, with details being kept very quiet by the Canadian Ministry of National Defense. Some sources place the number of dead in the dozens with hundreds of injuries, though nothing has been verified by officials in Canada.
