Survival of the Fittest (not just for white right-wingers anymore)

Philadelphia Weekly ^ | May 26, 2009 | Steven Wells

[new cruelty]

I read this earlier in Philadelphia Weekly. Thought it might be of interest to some.

[I Buried My Guns]

“...No more than a handful are the white, male Christian Republicans you’d maybe expect...”

Thank Goodness for that. Those Cons really stink up a co-op after a few days.

Really, though. The agenda of this article disturbs me: "We are an all inclusive survivalist group, unlike those Republicans, who want to kill the gays and brown-skinned folk".

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I agree, it is a form of survivalism chic for the urban conservative-bashing crowd.

Still, I liked this quote-

Harking back to the Great Depression, Lawrence says: “They were tougher people back then, we’re a little more sissified. Maybe all the trouble we are going through now, we might learn some vital lessons such as self-sufficiency. Maybe we’re getting fat and lazy and maybe we need to go on a diet.”


[I Buried My Guns]

"...Layton chose the AK (the weapon of choice for terrorists everywhere) for its punk-rock shock value..."

Smart move, hippy.

Not.

Of course, after the fall of civilization, who is to say that the chances of survival are not increased by "punk-rock shock value"?

After the fall, if you see a green-mohawked man helping a little old lady cross the street in Houston, that would be me: Still a nice, helpful person, but chock full o' punk rock shock value.

[OneWingedShark]

>After the fall, if you see a green-mohawked man helping a little old lady cross the street in Houston, that would be me: Still a nice, helpful person, but chock full o’ punk rock shock value.

LOL - Awesome response.

[ctdonath2]

Great. Now the post-TEOTWAKI lines begin to be formally drawn...

[ASOC]

LOL

Last I looked Philly was just about at THOTWAWKIT.

You wanna survive, get out of the City. Any City.

[a fool in paradise]

Survive and Thrive, says Salguero, is for people who, like him, “don’t fit the Confederate flag-hat-wearing, baccy-chewing, racism-spewing stereotype.”


I thought the 9-11 truther movement was FOR racism spewing dilettantes.

[a fool in paradise]

Until he speaks out against Big Government and socialism, he isn't into self-sufficiency at all.

[a fool in paradise]

Immediately after the election of the nation’s first black president, millions of Americans panic-bought guns and ammunition.

It isn't just white people buying guns. The author is perpetrating racist stereotypes. There are ads on black audience radio stations about getting concealed carry licenses to protect your home from thieves and invaders.

[a fool in paradise]

“When people stop believing in God,” wrote the devout Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton, “they don’t believe in nothing—they believe in anything.”


Switch out “God” for “the Soviet Union” in that sentence and you’ve got a pretty decent description of the confused post-Cold War survivalist zeitgeist.

“When people stop believing in the Soviet Union, they don’t believe in nothing—they believe in anything.”


That doesn't make any sense.

[a fool in paradise]

He thinks the big lesson of Katrina (and of the collapse of the Argentinean economy in 2001) is that when push comes to shove, well-armed neighborhoods will have to fight off mobs of looters. 


Including crooked cops who abdicate the responsibilities of their job to flee town or loot Wal-Mart with the commoners.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

This guy reminds me of the Burt Reynolds character in the movie DELIVERANCE. Ready for anything till he breaks his leg. then he is helpless and must rely on less prepared people.

[Brett66]

After the fall, if you see a green-mohawked man helping a little old lady cross the street in Houston, that would be me: Still a nice, helpful person, but chock full o' punk rock shock value.

Now wait, I watched Fist Of The Northstar and those guys are the ones mowing down old ladies with motorcycles.

Until Kenshiro punches them and their head explodes.

[I Buried My Guns]

I was envisioning the lead bad guy from the movie "Mad Max".

"...Some of Salguero’s youth was spent on various military bases with his dad, an Air Force chief master sergeant who helped “design the trigger and release mechanism devices for nuclear weapons.”..."Such a drama queen, and such a liar. There could not possibly be truth to this statement.

As an aside, but in a related vein: I bought my first house recently. It is old. The previous owner was an odd one. The more I poke around, the more odd I consider him. He is now a 9.5 out of 10 in my mind due to recent developments: There was supposedly an old, defunct "cistern" in the back yard, according to the realtor. I lifted the cover and it did not look like any cistern I ever read about, so my interest was piqued. I finally got around to pumping it out last weekend, and forced myself to go down into the hole and investigate.

It is NOT a cistern, but an underground shelter circa the 1950s. It has/had electricity. It also has crawdads. I do not know if it was meant for tornadoes ratrher than nukes, but I will find out when I can spend more than 15 seconds down there. It is stinky, hot, and oppresive.

I could go on about it (I am so d@mned excited about it, I feel like I'm 12 again!) but I won't. I may start a thread when/if I get photos of it.

[RobinOfKingston]

... Ralph Nader’s Clean Water Action Project.


Would the acronym for that be CWAP?

[new cruelty]

Ralph Nader’s CWAP, no less.

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And the hollywood celebs armed with dixie cups to help scoop up the rising flood waters.

[hiredhand]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[WOBBLY BOB]

The difference is that before the Great Depression, most of Americans were not dependent on the gubermint...now they are.