re: When and if the nation collapses... how will you survive?

I would go to North Louisiana where all my family lives. For all of you that need the knowledge to grow food and other survival skills the Foxfire series of books were written in the seventies and should still be available.

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Threads like this are part of the reason why Democrats are able to continue to win elections.

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Mmmm huh...and Democrats winning elections are the reason for smart folk anticipating an economic collapse and discussing it in "threads like this".

But what if it really happens?

Red Dawn is awesome and you know it.

while everyone in the U.S. has been arguing over left vs right bullchyt I've been busy getting 3 acres of garden in shape for food production. fyi - it takes about 3 years to get undeveloped land in good shape to grow food - also own a few cattle and horses

i don't think country will collapse but any kind of major event (pandemic, etc) would require self sufficiency for 3 to 6 months, maybe less if you're lucky

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The economy has collapsed before and we didnt resort to animalistic weapons hoarding instinct. The nation itself isnt collapsing anytime soon, so its a moot point.

I imagine some of you frequently masturbate to Red Dawn.

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I took a break from this, for my own sake.. but I agree... it won't resort to a complete collapse. But a great depression, greater than the first is very possible... Back then there were less people and more of them knew how to fend for themselves.. Today a lot of people don't know how to get food from anything but a store. People laugh and say, the government will never collapse.. bullshite.. the soviet union did. The Romans did, so many others have... Our government and country is not immortal just cause we think it is.

1500 hundred acres in the middle of nowhere at the base of a mountain. On a fairly large freshwater lake fed by a river combined with over a dozen springs throughout the property. Add into that the small arsenal our family owns. As well as a fairly substantial amount of fuel, tractors, atvs, and trucks, also a bulldozer and roadgrader. Along with the 300 head of cattle, 25 horses, chickens, and deer on the land. I think we will get by juuuuuust fine.

Oh and there is only two ways in, both of which can be covered from the same vantage point. One of them you can actually cover for 3/4 of a mile before they get to the woods. We are golden.


Ftr, I own none of it. It's my grandfather and uncle's property.

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how long you think the deer population lasts when there isn't a hunting season? Deer would be the next carrier pidgeon.

You guys are dreaming.

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Not in Alabama. The population is so overgrown that they have been doing a doe a day limit for the entire hunting season the past couple years.

The biggest problem with surviving will be people... not living off the land, but fighting others off.. but like I said I think it will be more of a great depression, not true apocalyptic setting. Laws will still be around, just much looser.