• stepan@lemmy.cafe
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    17 days ago

    Why the hate on prerppers in this comment section? It sounds kinds fun tbh, and the skills of living in the woods are useful even outside of apocalypse.

    • Troy@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      Sounds fun. But there’s a huge Venn diagram overlap between them and the sovcits, covid-hoax, various types of “truthers” and doomsday cult types. So the target market, if you’re marketing to preppers, is not just the clever Doctor Stone cosplayers.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Because a lot of them are far right nutjobs.

      I’m not hating on all preppers, one of my partners is one. She has a massive food garden, quite a few guns (though that’s largely because her ex is armed and violent), and cultivates skills useful in dangerous situations, such as woodwork and textile work. That’s not the judgement.

      The judgement is for the ones who openly fantasize about city folk dying in a disaster and dream of using their hoarded food to buy human beings.