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re: 4Patriots, doomsday ultra paranoid conservative company, is hilarious

Posted on 11/16/25 at 2:46 pm to
Posted by Breesus
Unplug
Member since Jan 2010
69549 posts
Posted on 11/16/25 at 2:46 pm to
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I mean it is pretty well known that we have an extremely vulnerable grid. Just because a company is using that to promote a cheap generator doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Lights Out by Ted Koppel is a good book on the subject. Is the United States going to be sent to the Stone Age by an EMP? No. But could portions of the United States suffer lengthy outages from a coordinated terror attack either physically at strategic power plants or cyber, absolutely.


EMPs and coordinated terror attacks?

A couple of errant Mylar balloons knocked the New Orleans power grid off line a few months ago
Posted by goblrhntr
Carolina
Member since Mar 2012
89 posts
Posted on 11/16/25 at 2:54 pm to
All the while selling cheap Chinese crap for 3-4 times the price that one can find on Amazon. Preying on the uninformed.
Posted by Barbellthor
Columbia
Member since Aug 2015
11293 posts
Posted on 11/16/25 at 5:10 pm to
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There whole schtick is installing fear that there’s going to be some doomsday, cataclysmic alien or US terrorizing event to leave people with no food or power

Ask Ukraine what's up. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. It's also these types that have the chinas of the world reticent to invade.
Posted by Spankum
The Sip
Member since Jan 2007
62240 posts
Posted on 11/16/25 at 8:24 pm to
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4Patriots, doomsday ultra paranoid conservative company, is hilarious



That company is getting rich off that advertising angle! They do deliver the product they promise, though. If people want those products, it seems to be as good a place as any to buy them.

If I see the word “patriot” in the name of the company, I naturally assume it is a ripoff.
Posted by wareaglepete
Union of Soviet Auburn Republics
Member since Dec 2012
18523 posts
Posted on 11/16/25 at 8:44 pm to
Bunch of fear mongering. I’m not worried about starving. If it hits the fan, there is a Publix less than 2 miles away. I will take it over and become a local warlord.
This post was edited on 11/16/25 at 8:45 pm
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
10935 posts
Posted on 11/16/25 at 8:53 pm to
Well when you stop being poor, eventually you might decide its better to have a disaster stash and not need it, than to need a disaster stash and not have it.
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
23224 posts
Posted on 11/16/25 at 9:32 pm to
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People have been doomsday preppers for a lot longer than 4patriots has been around.



No kidding. Didn't everyone listen to Coast to Coast back in the 90s?
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
79984 posts
Posted on 11/16/25 at 9:59 pm to
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www.4patriotsrebelsliberalsevangelistssocialistscommunistsanarchistsconservativesrelativesgaysstraightsvetsdraftdodgerspeasantskangsqueensserfscentristsleftistsrightestsbumsartistsautisticsassholesanddickheads.com
Damn it! That site just gave my phone AIDS.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
21354 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 12:04 am to
I was in a hardware store in Texas in the summer of 1999. They had a poster up about a lantern that ran on pellets or some odd fuel.

Heard the clerk take a call and say, “No, with Y2K coming, those lanterns are on back order for several months.”

That’s when I realized that a lot of people were losing their minds over Y2K.
Posted by PabloSmash
Kane-Tuck-Eeee
Member since Sep 2018
278 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 6:28 am to
I believe every Mormon church has enough supplies to support its congregation for 30+ days
Posted by blueboxer1119
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
9785 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 6:31 am to
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Their marketing angle is panned to the hyper paranoid, super conservative segment that somehow there will be a doomsday event where you won’t have power or food for months. How do people not laugh at this whole operation?


quote:

SoftMicroCopilot


Name checks out. Soft indeed.

Like every other limpwrist liberal on Earth.
Posted by ShoeBang
Member since May 2012
22271 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:43 am to
The majority of these sites are owned by Mormons because they believe and are looking forward to the apocalypse. Prepping bankrolls a huge portion of LDS
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
476737 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:45 am to
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Some of the unprepared can hardly walk across their house without breathing heavy. Y

Some? Sure

Does that leave enough for a huge mob to overwhelm a huge family with an armory? Yes, with plenty to spare.

quote:

Your SNAP recipient friends would actually have to put some effort towards feeding themselves in a doomsday situation.


Ignoring the untruthful ad hom, those people are the ones who would team up in a mob as that effort, and steal from preppers (until that ran out and then most would die)
This post was edited on 11/17/25 at 8:46 am
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
476737 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:46 am to
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People who live in suburbs or cities who don’t have a securable compound getting into this stuff is hilarious to me


Idiots.
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
49661 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:54 am to
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Lights Out by Ted Koppel is a good book on the subject.


Great book. And relatively accurate to anyone with common sense.
Posted by Defenseiskey
Houston, TX
Member since Nov 2010
2155 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:57 am to
They also sell their stuff at a 30% markup. You can a lot of the same stuff online for way less.
Posted by Zendog
Santa Barbara
Member since Feb 2019
6818 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:58 am to
They're right you know
Posted by F1y0n7h3W4LL
Below I-10
Member since Jul 2019
4106 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 9:03 am to
Next, you'll tell us the the Chinaboys is (are) hacking TD posts!

Might be.
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
38717 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 1:31 pm to
They have a ton of stores in the hills too
Posted by Philzilla2k
Member since Oct 2017
12751 posts
Posted on 11/17/25 at 1:48 pm to
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SoftMicroCopilot
I’ll remember that when you and your family are starving and wander onto my land looking to steal eggs.
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