The only reason you should be stocking years of canned garbage food is if you're expecting a nuclear winter.
If you're just expecting social upheaval and bad economic times, you should farm, forage, and hunt.
If you're trying to ride out such a disaster in a city, get guns and friends with guns and learn to rob and run protection rackets, or else live under the thumb of those who do. Stocking a year's supply of baked beans in your apartment is just hoarding something to be stolen.
Yeah, if you can't stand in front of it with a gun... it's gone!
One of the reasons I called RooshV a traitor was because he actually had a couple of interesting guys on his forum that were debating all this and giving solid info. One was an Aussie shitposter called Leonard IIRC. He left just before Roosh found god, but he put out some solid info on homesteading. Brutal truths.
Some guns are illegal in Oz, but other guns are kind of OK if you have a good reason. Guns are what you need really. Badder the better. Food is all nice and all that, but don't mean shit without guns. Gold is good and all that, but don't mean shit without guns to protect the food. Food is where it's at.
Not got any guns, not got any mates. Guess I'll be that guy at the mercy of others. Even more so because my larder is fairly well stocked. I hope it doesn't come to that. I'm hoping the marauders don't have guns, so I can at least use sticks and knives.
This isn't something I'm looking for advice here, for. I'm just shit-posting.
But yeah, getting a group of mates, getting a plan, is a good idea.
I'm working on the premise that things won't ever get that bad, and if they do, well, I'll just be fucked. I got some old folks to look after, but even that will be difficult. Anyway, that's just me.
If this is you, listening in to this thread, then take some good advice if you are healthy and young: get stocks of food where you can hide them. Get ammo so you can protect them. Get friends, and I mean real 'friends' that are prepared to die with you (because that is what it will take), to help to protect what you have.
It's not so much the caliber of the bullet you will need. It's not so much the End of Life or Best Before on that big 5KG pack of Pasta or Rice. It's your ability to keep it, store it, access it, and protect it, that matters most.
But as others have said, you don't need to provision that much in to the future, just a month or two will make you good. 3-5 months is better. If you can stretch it to 6 months, then all the better, but by that point, well, all bets are off.
The thing is, so many people don't even have the wherewithal to have a 6-8 week provision for the future SHTF scenario. Don't be one of them. It's not difficult to work out. And yeah, spices make it a lot easier. But they are expensive. Dried Rice/Pasta is not so much. If you live in a major city like London or New York, well, you are fucked either way. But those out in the country with a bit of land around to stash stuff, should be a lot better off.
Remember, no one knows what they are doing. Work shit out for yourself. If you have a family, well, then you really do need to work out some kind of contingency plan.
Just in Time supply chains have pretty much crashed. The day has come. It's not going to go back to
normal next week. Deal with it. Expect it to get worse. It's like a nuclear reaction where critical mass is achieved - we have a lot of people panic buying and that feeds the reactor all that much more. You will have to deal with that too. Don't go mad. But you will anyway. And the madder you go, the further it will feed the reaction. Mass panic is a
thing. Even if you don't subscribe to it,
they will.
Now is a good time to get out of the city you are working in for slave wages. No one will notice. It might make the difference between life and death. Or a good death or a bad death. Better to starve in the rurals than to be hacked to death in the urban wasteland. You'll be fine!
For whatever reason things are heating up. They got a bit longer to go yet. Now is a good time to cut and run. I don't think anyone is going to be upwardly mobile from this point on, not for a little time yet, anyway. Accept your losses. Make good. Take care of friends and family. Go back to protect them if needs be.
All this talk seems a bit over the top, I know. But the world is pretty fucked anyway, and it wouldn't hurt to take a prudent path.
One thing is for sure, the revolution won't be televised, and if it is, you will be the one starring in the show.
TL;DR:
Try not to be that guy!
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