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Originally Posted by Choker
I dont think people will use silver and gold as barter after a disaster. But that's what people think and are buying. After a disaster yes food, water, medical supplies,power, weapons is what people will barter with. Maybe after a year or two when things start to improve they may start using silver and gold as bartering, but initially yeah your right, they will use have to have items.
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They will barter with everything they can get their hands on.
However, most people won't have anything at all, as you can see from the people LOLing in this thread. So get your weapons and take from them whatever you want. No need to barter with those types. In the grand scheme of things the weak are meant to die anyway.
Everything was bartered in Argentina. Weapons, jewelry, coins, food, ammo, medicine, sex, you name it. No reason to think the USA would be any different.
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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
Ever shit in a bucket for days because the city sewer system is on electric systems?
I have.
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We are getting a compost toilet very soon. No need to shit in a bucket.
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Originally Posted by Rothstein
Pretty much all of NASA's funding has been cut, of course they have to look like they are working on something big/important else they'd be gone completely.
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Because the nation is BROKE and in debt to the point of no return. Not because NASA is worthless.
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I still remember the air raid drills in the 1960's at school. We huddled in the school's basement under the asbestos wrapped heating ducts practicing for the Soviet nuclear attack that never came -- in the end, wasted effort for the event that would destroy our world as we knew it -- mental masturbation.
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They thought the same thing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki I'm sure.
The USA was very close to all out war with the Soviets during the Cuban missile crises. However, students hiding under desks and in the basements would not have saved them from such a catastrophic event. And by some freak chance it did, the radiation would have killed you later. So in that aspect, it was indeed a total waste of time. But the act of trying to prepare for something is not.
Fact of the matter is, people never know when a disaster is going to happen or the size of it. Maybe never. Maybe in 2 minutes after I make this post. It may be an earthquake, a power outage that lasts for a few days (or weeks), a currency collapse, a tornado, or something more sinister and destructive. Historically it has happened over and over and over again around the world, so it's not something that should be blown off so easily. Shit happens. Nothing wrong with being a little prepared for it.
However, the one thing everyone can count on, including the most prepared prepper, is it will never play out the way you planned. But even if you're just a little prepared, it will be better than not being prepared at all and having to be totally dependent on others.