re: Will we experience a civil war in our lifetime here in the US?

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probably won't here because we're all fat and hooked on the internet/tv/vidya.

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This. It would take a massive economic failure for any civil war to break out here.

Yes, the idea is you do away with the lending institutions that loan money to Governments at interest.

Governments run on massive debt because they allow bankers to rob them blind. And anyone else who happens to be connected well enough it seems.

The Federal reserve is going down.

Everyone is talking about Nancy Pelosi's trip being cancelled, but what isn't being spoken of is that we also cancelled our delegation to the world economic summit.

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It would take an EMP or a fire sale a la Diehard 4.

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That would certainly collapse the economy and all social structures.

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Once the sexbots roll out it's all over.

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you're on the waiting list, aren't you

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Which one? There are several.

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I'm not buying one until they can provide affirmative consent.

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bs youre waitin on artificial wombs

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Tomorrow you woke up and the power was off. You pick up your phone and it's dead. Every battery powered device in your home is dead. You go outside and hear no cars, machinery, planes over head, nothing, just birds. You go to your car and it won't turn over.

You visit your neighbors and it's the same deal, nobody has any idea what happened.

What do you do now?

Would you come in to work?

What if this lasted for days? Weeks? Months?

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I'd first take inventory of food items, water, first aid supplies, survival supplies, firearms and ammunition, then stash what I needed for several days away somewhere-probably in my attic since it is extremely hard to access. I'd probably stash my wife and child there for the time being, as well.

Then go to the office (it's walking distance) and make sure all sensitive information is secured. I'd avoid as many people as possible, including my neighbors.

Then I'd come back to the house and start checking on neighbors and casing the neighborhood for items that I might eventually need. Then make a decision: go it alone or marshal resources with neighbors. Probably the latter for the time being, while holding enough food and water in reserve for 3-4 days should I need it.

After that, it will be a matter of finding food and water and avoiding roving gangs either causing trouble or basically looking for the same things we are, and making connections with friendlies.

That would do for days and maybe 4-6 weeks.

Months? I'd eventually try to make it to a very rural area. Not sure after that.

This makes me want to buy a mountain bike and another canoe.

We could probably get a few threads out of the what would you do if idea

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