Facebook is looking out for your safety again. This time among homesteading groups, where dangerous preppers and survivalists gather to share recipes and strategies for living off the grid. In these groups, FB is asking: Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming too prepared?
Ann this is excellent reporting. These little hidden gems that you unearthed are good grist for the mill. I knew about the FB BS a while back starting a “snitch” agenda… I hope this gets more coverage Perhaps send to Jeff Childers @ Covid & Coffee substack. I am sure it will get cross posted. I will link this in his comment section tomorrow. Prayers & Peace. We win when we are all connected.
I prepped a lot a few years ago. I bought and stored canned goods, bought a basement freezer and filled it with meat, bought a generator, bought seeds and put them in storage, and bought extra flashlights.
Two years later, I stopped prepping. I decided if the country ever got to the point that my survival depended on a can of baked beans heated up on a propane stove, I wouldn’t want to tough it out anyway. I’m good to go. That’s not meant to sound defeatist, it’s a well thought-out choice.
I don’t want to live in a totalitarian reality. I’m old enough that I can say I’ve lived a good life, have a great family, have seen the world and have had so many good times.
I do have to say, as someone who has been awake since 1997, we have extremely hard times ahead. Probably worse than most can imagine. Everyone should be aware of that and at least be prepared in some fundamental and basic ways.
I can't easily tell whether FB actually posted such warnings or whether this is made up, but Google search indicates that the Reddit thread contains a statement that this is fake and that the real warning text concerns extremism rather than being "too prepared". However the thread is very long and would require a lot of effort to expand all the comments to find that statement.
FWIW last week I went to three separate supermarkets in Melbourne (Australia), one Asian, one Italian and one Greek and came home with 139 cans of fish.
Ann this is excellent reporting. These little hidden gems that you unearthed are good grist for the mill. I knew about the FB BS a while back starting a “snitch” agenda… I hope this gets more coverage Perhaps send to Jeff Childers @ Covid & Coffee substack. I am sure it will get cross posted. I will link this in his comment section tomorrow. Prayers & Peace. We win when we are all connected.
Interesting post.
I prepped a lot a few years ago. I bought and stored canned goods, bought a basement freezer and filled it with meat, bought a generator, bought seeds and put them in storage, and bought extra flashlights.
Two years later, I stopped prepping. I decided if the country ever got to the point that my survival depended on a can of baked beans heated up on a propane stove, I wouldn’t want to tough it out anyway. I’m good to go. That’s not meant to sound defeatist, it’s a well thought-out choice.
I don’t want to live in a totalitarian reality. I’m old enough that I can say I’ve lived a good life, have a great family, have seen the world and have had so many good times.
I do have to say, as someone who has been awake since 1997, we have extremely hard times ahead. Probably worse than most can imagine. Everyone should be aware of that and at least be prepared in some fundamental and basic ways.
A Google search for "Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming too prepared" turns up lots of stuff from as early as late August 2021 such as: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTPy47TFHYz/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/pegz46/preserving_food_violent_extremism/, https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3991026/replies?c=1 and https://www.reddit.com/r/comedyheaven/comments/q5e0b4/becoming_too_prepared/ .
I can't easily tell whether FB actually posted such warnings or whether this is made up, but Google search indicates that the Reddit thread contains a statement that this is fake and that the real warning text concerns extremism rather than being "too prepared". However the thread is very long and would require a lot of effort to expand all the comments to find that statement.
FWIW last week I went to three separate supermarkets in Melbourne (Australia), one Asian, one Italian and one Greek and came home with 139 cans of fish.
Thank you Ann. Just thank you
Holy smokes! When 'fudgery' goes to the next level!
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀. Facebook is poison!