Memes

• As Tar_Alcaran said, most of them are really really right wing.
• ...and neck deep in 7 conspiracy theories and get-rich-quick schemes of the week.
• As Cory Doctorow puts it, "Prepping is a way of playing out a fantasy in which you are elevated to savior status, not an exercise in disaster-mitigation."
• The prepper market is absolutely rife with grifts.

Prepperism is a rabbit hole that your uncle falls down that makes Thanksgiving awkward and makes the whole rest of the family worry about them. Not a benign hobby. And certainly not effective disaster preparedness.

There's of course nothing wrong with having a kerosene heater in your garage or owning a generator in case your power goes out for a few days. But luxury bunkers full of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of MREs bought from Alex Jones' online store? That's someone who thinks the government is all disguised extraterrestrials who drink child adrenal fluid to stay young and and inebriated. Except Trump who is prophesized to throw them all in jail.

A LOT of them are right wing nutjobs hoping for a nuclear apocalypse to stop the gays from defiling their precious bodily fluids.

Nothing wrong with being prepared for a disaster, but hoping for the chance to remake society in your image isn't exactly healthy.

Doesn't read like flexing, reads like finally getting to use your toys.

Relevant: https://youtu.be/YAD0a6wWFrI

You haven't lived until some needs a knife to open something on christmas and 5 of the 6 adult males in your family are just standing there holding their pockets knives for you to choose from.

I always go out with my HP 50g in case someone needs to solve a numerical integration and I'm the only one with a graphical calculator.