Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[cybertoaster]

People are holding on because there is still some faith in elections. If the libtards blatantly steal 2024 or God help them 2022 as they did 2020, then their goose is cooked.

And "collapse" doesn't mean we're all shooting each our neighbors and roasting them for dinner. It means the 1/6 capitol storming, but state capitols and us simply ignoring the feds. They need us to survive, we don't need them. They can threaten us all they want but without us they are powerless, and without our taxes and warm bodies in the military they have nothing.

What you need to do is talk to your neighbors and touch grass. Build local organic networks for essentials, and start noting who in your neighborhood isn't reliable or is an enemy. These are the people who will go on shooting sprees when the shit hits the fan, whom you'll need to have a plan to deal with their meltdowns.

Communities have been broken up and atomized by design, read "bowling alone".

What's gonna happen is that your neighbors will bend over and you wont so the feds will come for you, and your neighbors wont do shit because you posted something they didn't like on social media, see how it works?

Its not a bug, its a feature.

If there is a cascading economic catastrophe you would be surprised how quickly the government's ability to project power would decrease. Now this wouldn't be a "collapse" but it would be widespread civil unrest, rioting, and it has the potential to create a power vacuum.

Think about how dependent the average person is on the state. What would happen if suddenly truckers went on strike? What would happen if municipal water facilities were shut down due to a cyberattack? The world we live in is fragile and people are less prepared for an event like this now then they were decades ago. Globalization has made it so every moving piece of the economy has to function without fail constantly. Otherwise it begins to break down. The GloboHomo house of cards is falling down. We are seeing the beginning of what I believe is going to lead to a global depression. All of these shortages and supply chain failures at some point are going to cascade into each other resulting in further disruptions. If a major economic catastrophe to the scale of COVID were to happen anytime soon with the current pressure on supply chains you would absolutely see some type of "collapse".

An example of just how fast this can happen is the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack that happened last year (https://archive.md/TV7Qi). There were no major disruptions to the pipeline but the sheer panic buying led to empty gas stations in the South and even in states unaffected like Pennsylvania. For about 5 days every gas station I saw had lines of cars or was completely empty. Here is a website that was tracking fuel shortages when it happened. It took around a week after the news of the pipeline becoming operational again before gas stations were normal.

If you want a example of how hypercentralized the economy is, look at semiconductors. Two companies account for over 80% of the ENTIRE production of modern ICs and semiconductors. The first is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and the second is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. LTD, or Foxconn Technology Group. And there is ONE company capable of manufacturing the specialized UV photolithography equipment for fabricating semiconductors and that is ASML Netherlands. Last week, their largest factory in Berlin caught on fire damaging expensive equipment and setting back production. And none of this includes the transportation, warehousing, distribution and fulfillment that has to occur before these products get anywhere. Thousands upon thousands of miles of shipping, sorting, and processing. There are two companies producing 80% of all semiconductors found in your phone, your car, your laptop, and your Amazon Basics 5G SmartFridge . And there is one company on the entire planet that produces the hardware to fabricate semiconductors.

It's not a "what if" at this point. It's a when.

I used to think all that until 2020 happened and I saw billions of people all over the world taking it up the ass and doing nothing. And in this country we had massive riots were people were left to die at the hands of feral packs of looters...........and the people who orchestrated this shit still won the election. And even if it was stolen the fact is a huge chunk of the country still supported these riots, and will support whatever shit comes in the future as long as mass media tell them to do so.

Seriously, if before all that you told me about the lockdowns and the orchestrated riots my answer would've been something like "you're fucking retarded" and "you want a civil war?"

And yet nothing happened, and when the consequences of bending over come home to roost nothing will happen either.

 

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What you need to do is talk to your neighbors and touch grass. Build local organic networks for essentials, and start noting who in your neighborhood isn't reliable or is an enemy. These are the people who will go on shooting sprees when the shit hits the fan, whom you'll need to have a plan to deal with their meltdowns.

I feel really bad for the people in my neighborhood who had a Biden Harris sign on their yard back in 2020, the only people compared to the dozens of Trump signs. I bet I'm not the only person who remembers exactly which house that was, and wouldn't be surprised that if shit hit the fan, they'd get a scary knock on the door or two warning them to shape up "or else."

 

[Never Scored]

Now you are triggering me with you use of unitasking kitchen devices and lack of soak time.

You have to soak the potatoes in salt water to get rid of the starch so they will fry nice and crispy. You should do that for a couple hours.

Also fuck fry cutters. Those are unitaskers. Use a mandolin or cut them by hand.


That's more cat food than I've seen in a month!

If you're so against unitasking, why is your only function being a faggot?

 

[CryptoHermit]

Anyone who's serious about rising food costs should seriously look into pirating as many books about; brewing, fermentation, food preservation, sauces, dried foods and just cookbooks in general. I'd also recommend pirating as many technical manuals, how to guides, repair manuals or general survival books ( the US army actually has a lot of old but still valid army technical manuals on gear, wilderness survival etc..). Never know when that might come in handy and if you're worried about the electricity going out then we have much bigger problems to worry about than all the torrented stuff on your SSD. I recommend the Noma guide to Fermentation for pickling, drinks, misos and sauces and loads more. Also a good guide on bread making would be great to have, all you need for basic bitch bread is flour, water and salt and maybe eggs and butter if you're feeling fancy. I have a free ebook on Sourdough bread for anyone interested. For torrented ebooks I use Z-library and where else people torrent from. https://www.sourdoughu.com/slice-of-heavenView attachment 2895143

 

[George Lucas]

Anyone who's serious about rising food costs should seriously look into pirating as many books about; brewing, fermentation, food preservation, sauces, dried foods and just cookbooks in general. I'd also recommend pirating as many technical manuals, how to guides, repair manuals or general survival books ( the US army actually has a lot of old but still valid army technical manuals on gear, wilderness survival etc..). Never know when that might come in handy and if you're worried about the electricity going out then we have much bigger problems to worry about all the torrented stuff on your SSD. I recommend the Noma guide to Fermentation for pickling, drinks, misos and sauces and loads more. Also a good guide on bread making would be great to have, all you need for basic bitch bread is flour, water and salt and maybe eggs and butter if you're feeling fancy. I have a free ebook on Sourdough bread for anyone interested. For torrented ebooks I use Z-library and where else people torrent from. https://www.sourdoughu.com/slice-of-heavenView attachment 2895143

Isn’t the US army stuff in the public domain anyway?

 

[MysticLord]

I feel really bad for the people in my neighborhood who had a Biden Harris sign on their yard back in 2020, the only people compared to the dozens of Trump signs. I bet I'm not the only person who remembers exactly which house that was, and wouldn't be surprised that if shit hit the fan, they'd get a scary knock on the door or two warning them to shape up "or else."

Fuck em. Wait until they step outside, then [redact] them and divide the spoils.

The last thing you need is some libtard giving the US Air Force targeting instructions in your neighborhood.

@cybertoaster funny story, in my neighborhood the local boomerwaffen was chatting about how they're gonna be capping blue helmets and chinese paratroopers from their roof, skeet-shooting style.

There aren't enough warm bodies in all the law enforcement and military units in the USA to stop us from beating them to death from ambush with gardening tools, let along stop us when we have guns.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The local store are mostly full overall, but there are empty shelves here and there.

Also they're almost out of paper towels and TP last time I checked.

Combined with the coof crap, and it's like we're still in 2020.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

Bought a farm implement. 2 year wait time.

 

[Sped Xing]

John Deere is just Apple Computers for rednecks.

 

[George Lucas]

Fuck em. Wait until they step outside, then [redact] them and divide the spoils.

The last thing you need is some libtard giving the US Air Force targeting instructions in your neighborhood.

@cybertoaster funny story, in my neighborhood the local boomerwaffen was chatting about how they're gonna be capping blue helmets and chinese paratroopers from their roof, skeet-shooting style.

There aren't enough warm bodies in all the law enforcement and military units in the USA to stop us from beating them to death from ambush with gardening tools, let along stop us when we have guns.

All it takes is a unit of mechanized infantry and 90% of these ‘based gun-owning Americans’ will surrender while the other 10% get shot down by long-range support.

 

[MysticLord]

All it takes is a unit of mechanized infantry and 90% of these ‘based gun-owning Americans’ will surrender while the other 10% get shot down by long-range support.

Mechanized infantry requires fuel.

I had to delete my folder of liveleak bookmarks when they went offline, but my favorite Syrian anti-tank tactic was to throw rugs soaked in fuel oil on the ventilation ducts, then topping it off with a molotov. Tanks are useless without infantry screening, and infantry do poorly against hunting rifles that outrange them.

Besides, all those tanker soldiers have families, and their families have addresses deep in red counties.

 

[George Lucas]

Mechanized infantry requires fuel.

I had to delete my folder of liveleak bookmarks when they went offline, but my favorite Syrian anti-tank tactic was to throw rugs soaked in fuel oil on the ventilation ducts, then topping it off with a molotov. Tanks are useless without infantry screening, and infantry do poorly against hunting rifles that outrange them.

Besides, all those tanker soldiers have families, and their families have addresses deep in red counties.

I’ll believe it when I see it. The US had the most blatantly fraudulent election in history and two years of tyranny and nothing came of it.

Those niggers in Selma had more balls than any modern-day conservatards do.

 

[Blasterisk]

All it takes is a unit of mechanized infantry and 90% of these ‘based gun-owning Americans’ will surrender while the other 10% get shot down by long-range support.

All it takes is F-15s and nukes and 90% of the Taliban will surrender and the other 10% will get gunned down by the ANA.

 

[MysticLord]

I’ll believe it when I see it. The US had the most blatantly fraudulent election in history and two years of tyranny and nothing came of it.

I love how faggots vacillate between 1/6 being an insurrection and a nothingburger.

All it takes is F-15s and nukes and 90% of the Taliban will surrender and the other 10% will get gunned down by the ANA.

The ANA literally did not exist, it was fraud by unit "commanders" padding their payroll with ghosts so they could steal their undead wages.

 

[George Lucas]

I love how faggots vacillate between 1/6 being an insurrection and a nothingburger.

What exactly did I say about 1/6?

 

[MysticLord]

What exactly did I say about 1/6?

I can't hear your words over the sound of cock slobbering.

 

[George Lucas]

I can't hear your words over the sound of cock slobbering.

Whatever. I just want conservatives to get off their smug, know-it-all thrones for ten minutes and look at the situation objectively: America is too apathetic to protect her own rights. To assume people are going to ‘wake up’ and actively fight against law enforcement, national guard, military, or whatever is being out of touch with reality.

 

[MysticLord]

Whatever. I just want conservatives to get off their smug, know-it-all thrones for ten minutes and look at the situation objectively: America is too apathetic to protect her own rights. To assume people are going to ‘wake up’ and actively fight against law enforcement, national guard, military, or whatever is being out of touch with reality.

All this shit you're spewing on this thread in an effort to get people to fedpost so you can get your arrest quota is rendered irrelevant because we control all the bottlenecks for food and fuel resupply to blue counties and military bases, and we need only use the most conservative resistance tactics (non-violent work stoppages) to totally shut down the country and literally starve the regime to death.

Tinkzorg said it better than I ever could:

The Decisive Battle

“A lot of people are feeling relieved, or saying they’re ‘grateful to Admiral Yamamoto’ because there hasn’t been a single air raid. They’re very wrong: the fact that the enemy hasn’t come is no th…

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[MysticLord]

How is that working out for the People’s Republic of China? The country hasn’t killed itself with its dumb ideology. In fact, it has convinced the rest of the world that’s it’s actually a powerhouse. Meanwhile the exiled cucks in Taiwan now have no chance to ever take their country back, and it looks more and more likely that Taiwan will fall.

lmao what a fucking moron

China has no way to move troops to Taiwan, and even if they did somehow pull of a non-violent coup somehow they are still surrounded by bottlenecks by land and sea, all of whom it would be trivial for regional powers like Japan or India to block.

The only thing stopping us isn't libtards, it's RINOs like Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney, and when they steal the election from Trump again then they'll have totally delegitimized themselves and the concept of democracy. You need to think 10 steps ahead, and you need to be thinking sideways, because these are the only things the regime can't counter.

It’s your choice if you want to continue to abandon the cities and larp in rural compounds, but you don’t win wars that way. In fact, that’s what’s called ‘exile’ and is what losers do. How am I supposed to liberate anything when my right-leaning peers who live here have no balls and think they can just move to Arizona if things ‘really get that bad’?

For someone who is supposed to be the superior race, it's telling that you can't figure out how to create your own tactics or better yet repurpose the ones that libtards use against you.

If you were capable of speaking to women while also looking them in the eye, you could bang libtard's wives and girlfriends, knock them up, and use insane divorce, child support, and alimony laws to get them to pay for your kids while you build a harem. You could just date your girlfriend and have her get benefits while you work, instead of marrying her and paying for someone else's benefits. Libtard men usually string their wives and girlfriends along while they play video games, and it's not like you need to convince their women to be be sluts.

You could do as Assad does in Syria and reload bullets such that the bullet is a thin shell of lead or copper, and the cavity is filled with thermite (iron or copper oxide and magnesium powders). Then scatter a few half-empty cartons of these bullets in diverse neighborhoods when you can get away with it. The result being that some gang banger loads it into his gat, then melts his gun, gets a 3rd degree chemical burn on his hand, and sets his car on fire when he "fires" it. No one who picks up and shoots bullets found lying on the street is up to any good, it's untraceable, the ingredients can be had through the mail without a background check. Black people can already barely hit anything shooting with their dominant hand, they'll have a hell of a time doing it off-hand when their fingers are fused together. If you want to warn normies what's up with your Assad rounds, write the word "Dragonfire" on them in cursive (a secret method for communication incomprehensible to black people).

The easiest way to explain this is that you need to operate at scale. Doing some really high quality craftsman work and absolutely fucking up a few dozen people accomplishes nothing compared to causing low grade irritation to tens of millions of people. Here's a quote from Good Omens on the matter.

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Many phenomena—wars, plagues, sudden audits—have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for Exhibit A.

Where they go wrong, of course, is in assuming that the wretched road is evil simply because of the incredible carnage and frustration it engenders every day.

In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil odegra in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means "Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds." The thousands of motorists who daily fume their way around its serpentine lengths have the same effect as water on a prayer wheel, grinding out an endless fog of low-grade evil to pollute the metaphysical atmosphere for scores of miles around.

It was one of Crowley's better achievements. It had taken years to achieve, and had involved three computer hacks, two break-ins, one minor bribery and, on one wet night when all else had failed, two hours in a squelchy field shifting the marker pegs a few but occultly incredibly significant meters. When Crowley had watched the first thirty-mile-long tailback he'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done.

It had earned him a commendation.

Crowley was currently doing 110 mph somewhere east of Slough. Nothing about him looked particularly demonic, at least by classical standards. No horns, no wings. Admittedly he was listening to a Best of Queen tape, but no conclusions should be drawn from this because all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums. No particularly demonic thoughts were going through his head. In fact, he was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

Crowley had dark hair and good cheekbones and he was wearing snakeskin shoes, or at least presumably he was wearing shoes, and he could do really weird things with his tongue. And, whenever he forgot himself, he had a tendency to hiss.

He also didn't blink much.

The car he was driving was a 1926 black Bentley, one owner from new, and that owner had been Crowley. He'd looked after it.

The reason he was late was that he was enjoying the twentieth century immensely. It was much better than the seventeenth, and a lot better than the fourteenth. One of the nice things about Time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century, the most bloody boring hundred years on God's, excuse his French, Earth. The twentieth century was anything but boring. In fact, a flashing blue light in his rearview mirror had been telling Crowley, for the last fifty seconds, that he was being followed by two men who would like to make it even more interesting for him.

He glanced at his watch, which was designed for the kind of rich deep-sea diver who likes to know what the time is in twenty-one world capitals while he's down there*.

The Bentley thundered up the exit ramp, took the corner on two wheels, and plunged down a leafy road. The blue light followed.

Crowley sighed, took one hand from the wheel, and, half turning, made a complicated gesture over his shoulder.

The flashing light dimmed into the distance as the police car rolled to a halt, much to the amazement of its occupants. But it would be nothing to the amazement they'd experience when they opened the hood and found out what the engine had turned into.




In the graveyard, Hastur, the tall demon, passed a dogend back to Ligur, the shorter one and the more accomplished lurker.

"I can see a light," he said. "Here he comes now, the flash bastard."

"What's that he's drivin'?" said Ligur.

"It's a car. A horseless carriage," explained Hastur. "I expect they didn't have them last time you was here. Not for what you might call general use."

"They had a man at the front with a red flag," said Ligur.

"They've come on a bit since then, I reckon."

"What's this Crowley like?" said Ligur.

Hastur spat. "He's been up here too long," he said. "Right from the Start. Gone native, if you ask me. Drives a car with a telephone in it."

Ligur pondered this. Like most demons, he had a very limited grasp of technology, and so he was just about to say something like, I bet it needs a lot of wire, when the Bentley rolled to a halt at the cemetery gate.

"And he wears sunglasses," sneered Hastur, "even when he dunt need to." He raised his voice. "All hail Satan," he said.

"All hail Satan," Ligur echoed.

"Hi," said Crowley, giving them a little wave. "Sorry I'm late, but you know how it is on the A40 at Denham, and then I tried to cut up towards Chorley Wood and then—"

"Now we art all here," said Hastur meaningfully, "we must recount the Deeds of the Day."

"Yeah. Deeds," said Crowley, with the slightly guilty look of one who is attending church for the first time in years and has forgotten which bits you stand up for.

Hastur cleared his throat.

"I have tempted a priest," he said. "As he walked down the street and saw the pretty girls in the sun, I put Doubt into his mind. He would have been a saint, but within a decade we shall have him."

"Nice one," said Crowley, helpfully.

"I have corrupted a politician," said Ligur. "I let him think a tiny bribe would not hurt. Within a year we shall have him."

They both looked expectantly at Crowley, who gave them a big smile.

"You'll like this," he said.

His smile became even wider and more conspiratorial.

"I tied up every portable telephone system in Central London for forty-five minutes at lunchtime," he said.

There was silence, except for the distant swishing of cars.

"Yes?" said Hastur. "And then what?"

"Look, it wasn't easy," said Crowley.

"That's all?" said Ligur.

"Look, people—"

"And exactly what has that done to secure souls for our master?" said Hastur.

Crowley pulled himself together.

What could he tell them? That twenty thousand people got bloody furious? That you could hear the arteries clanging shut all across the city? And that then they went back and took it out on their secretaries or traffic wardens or whatever, and they took it out on other people? In all kinds of vindictive little ways which, and here was the good bit, they thought up themselves For the rest of the day. The pass-along effects were incalculable. Thousands and thousands of souls all got a faint patina of tarnish, and you hardly had to lift a finger.

But you couldn't tell that to demons like Hastur and Ligur. Fourteenth-century minds, the lot of them. Spending years picking away at one soul. Admittedly it was craftsmanship, but you had to think differently these days. Not big, but wide. With five billion people in the world you couldn't pick the buggers off one by one any more; you had to spread your effort. But demons like Ligur and Hastur wouldn't understand. They'd never have thought up Welsh-language television, for example. Or valueadded tax. Or Manchester.

He'd been particularly pleased with Manchester.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I'm mystified by the hashbrown shortage. I realize there is a general shortfall in frozen potato production this year, due to crop problems. But when I go to the store I see some of everything else- fries, tots, o'brien- but zero hashbrowns. Do they require more effort at the factory? Do they simply sell out the fastest? I haven't even been looking to buy them for weeks, I have plenty of better options than sad frozen hashbrowns. I just want to solve the mystery.