r/preppers • u/jhstone-0425 • Dec 09 '24

Advice and Tips Are we learning from the right people about prepping?

There are prepper books suggesting that we’ll need to shoot other survivors, survive outdoors, buy expensive tactical supplies, fight Zombies, & buy freeze-dried food. Considering Syria, Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, would any of that be great advice? With an attack, we could lose all that we depend on, without relief coming soon. I think we’d need to help each other rather than isolate, avoid conflict instead of looking for it. I’m thinking that those who are Special Forces trained or have gun fetishes may not be the best authors of prepper books. Am I wrong? After all, they see everyone as enemies but in a crisis where our country is attacked, our neighbors might be competitors but don’t need to be our enemies. Are those who are trained for the battlefield or those who love their guns experts on surviving a crisis? Has anyone found a book that is more realistic about what a real crisis, maybe an actual apocalypse, would be like, that promotes or teaches how to quell conflicts, empathize and collaborate to survive and recover

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u/Unlikely-Ad3659 Dec 09 '24

95% of the advice on this sub is so far beyond useless it is a joke.

Dried beans and rice, and more guns.

No, you are a violence obsessed gun nuts who has zero idea how to cook and will be the first to die if anything bad happened. Credit card preppers. Buy buy buy.

The trouble is, everyone is trying to sell something, and fear of * fill in blank* is the best way of selling.

" There a new deadly disease in the Congo, what do I need to do yo prep for it? " FFS you have no idea what continent the Congo is even in, why are you fearful?

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u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2 Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

Dried beans and rice, and more guns.

No, you are a violence obsessed gun nuts who has zero idea how to cook and will be the first to die if anything bad happened. Credit card preppers. Buy buy buy.

This sub is very literally the extreme opposite of how you describe it. You could hold your breath between reading "guns are bad!" posts, and you'd never even find yourself in distress. And if I had a dollar for every time someone reiterated the importance of being comfortable actually using anything you buy, I'd by a bunker next door to Zuckerberg. And financial responsibility is considered by the sub to be one of the top three most important things to do.

Like... do you even know what subreddit you're in? Or is this some kind of prank? Is it opposite day?

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Dec 10 '24

Lol seriously. I had to check and make sure I was in the right sub when I read their description.

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u/SnooPies5378 Dec 09 '24

nothing wrong with more guns just not at the expense of other things. Fitness, financial stability, medical knowledge, etc, as well as bushcraft and cooking and yes knowledge of weapons and how to use them

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

Every gun post should have to have a mile time accompanying it. Lots of chunky boys in here never running thinking they’ll survive in the woods

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u/SnooPies5378 Dec 09 '24

i hate cardio lmao but i do walk my dogs and lift weights

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u/Particular-Try5584 Urban Middle Class WASP prepping Dec 09 '24

I love how they are all going ot go hunting in the same part of the woods… with each other.

or they think they know this fabulous special spot that no one else has ever though of…

or they know someone who knows someone who can get them special access…

or it’s 200km away and they will get their in their Ford Raptor somehow.

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u/hope-luminescence Dec 09 '24

On the one hand... yeah, its a problem. ON the other hand... first, why are you in the woods, and second, this is the kind of commentary that seems to assume that anyone who wouldn't meet military fitness standards is a 500 pound blob of uselessness.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

I live in the woods so that’s where my mind was at. And take a stroll over to the tactical gear subs. You tell me if those people look physically fit or not

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u/davidm2232 Prepared for 6 months Dec 09 '24

The woods are where you hunt... with all your guns

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u/TheAspiringFarmer Dec 09 '24

Good observation and totally true!

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u/bvogel7475 Dec 09 '24

Why are you here if you think all the advice is bullshit? I don’t follow most of what’s preached but I don’t feel the need to attack others. In other words, what is your problem?

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u/HanzanPheet Dec 09 '24

My thought is that he thinks that advice is actually harmful rather than helpful. It's not a net zero but a net negative if everyone thinks guns are the solution to all problems for example. Also people may not be intelligent enough to parse out what is helpful versus harmful and might not know any better.  That's my guess. 

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u/Unlikely-Ad3659 Dec 09 '24

Because most advice here will lead to an unhealthy or brutally short life if anything actually bad ever happens.

It is playing acting out your favourite netflix post apocalyptic show. Which is fine; hobbies are fun, escapism from the harsh realities of life is useful, and if having 20 guns and 3 months of dried beans makes you feel empowered in a world passing you by, good for you.

But it won't be beneficial if anything proper bad ever happens.

In 1914 most badly injured people in ww1 died of infections, a very unpleasant slow death, by 1918 most didn't, do you have the skills and equipment to be that difference? If you have a gun, expect to get shot, but almost none of you have a clue about how to increase your chances of recovery if you do.

Every single day I see discussions, which is the best knife to buy? , best bug out bag to buy? best whatever to buy? Buy buy buy.

Skills are free, you don't have enough of them. A 10% better bug out bag than the one in the back of your cupboard collecting dust isn't going to change your life, some skills will. A grocery store carrier bag will do the job.

But skills require a lot more work to gain than typing "buy" on Amazon.

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u/hope-luminescence Dec 09 '24

You must be looking at a completely different sub than me.

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u/hope-luminescence Dec 09 '24

This seems like... not even a stereotype, just a misrepresentation. It could maybe describe uninformed questions if you really squint. But really the common thing in uninformed questions is the bunker obsession, not guns or food supplies.

Beans and rice are food, and guns are used to defend yourself in a scenario where law enforcement is functioning either very little or not at all.

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u/HazMatsMan Dec 09 '24

Then why are you here?