re: atlanta: When/If the $hit Hits the Fan............

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One thing country people know how to do, and that's band together and help each other in a time of emergency. Sure, there would be some who would make that difficult, but for the most part the hicks would band together, be heavily armed, have military backgrounds, have been hunting since elementary school, be heavily motivated to defend property they dearly love, and they would know the country the city slickers are walking through like the back of their hand.

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I thought the reason people lived in rural areas was because they were rugged, self reliant types. Now they are supposed to be some sort of quasi-commune living hipsters who pitch in to help one another?

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have military backgrounds

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So they would know how to keep up a filing cabinet and how to throw unlimited amounts of money and labor not covered by labor laws such as overtime and OSHA regs at any problem that comes along? Military training would be the worst thing they could possibly bring to the table. Hell it takes 30 e-4's to keep the leaves picked up around the base commanders residence or keep the paint scraped off a ship. Military training consists of solving problems with unlimited resources and finding ways to keep those resources flowing.

Knowing the lay of the land would be a huge benefit however.

What is really funny is how rural folks have this sense of self reliance when in fact without copious amounts of diesel fuel and support from the chicken / beef company that they have a contract with very few people in the sticks would have a clue how to plow a field by hand. To this off with the fact they there is no such thing as a crop in the US that is not engineered and has been hybridized to the point that it won't grow without the assistance of an Ag Engineer and yall will be as fricked as anyone.