What We Can Learn: Kazakhstan

[sewerman68]

Your next door neighbor is 3 missed meals away from murder over a can of beans.

 

[HERMET]

Your next door neighbor is 3 missed meals away from murder over a can of beans.

When the urbanites can't get fed and start spreading out like a plague of locusts ravishing the countryside is when things really start lighting up.

 

[sewerman68]

When the urbanites can't get fed and start spreading out like a plague of locusts ravishing the countryside is when things really start lighting up.

Yup. Be a self solving problem if you can lay low and wait it out for 60 days or so.

 

[jaxyaks]

Hard time seeing that happening here.

Heck, switch off twitter for 24 hrs and it might happen quicker than 72hrs..lol

 

[AK74U]

Twitter, no. But internet access, yes.

Heck, switch off twitter for 24 hrs and it might happen quicker than 72hrs..lol

 

[lilred06]

With grocery stores not having stock rooms anymore and only having what's on the shelves it would take less time than most thing I believe. Most people I know have less than a weeks worth of food on hand at any given time.

I’d give it a couple hours. If a news broadcast put out a message along the lines of “after today the food supply will be cut in half or worse,” there would be an insane run on groceries and anyone that sold food would be emptied within a couple hours.

Watch how people act during Black Friday, or how people acted when gas was short for a couple days. People are ready to fight each other over trivial bull crap, imagine how they’ll act when they think they won’t be able to feed their kids. The blood won’t make it to the streets, it’ll be in the aisles.

 

[AK74U]

Agreed.

I’d give it a couple hours. If a news broadcast put out a message along the lines of “after today the food supply will be cut in half or worse,” there would be an insane run on groceries and anyone that sold food would be emptied within a couple hours.

Watch how people act during Black Friday, or how people acted when gas was short for a couple days. People are ready to fight each other over trivial bull crap, imagine how they’ll act when they think they won’t be able to feed their kids. The blood won’t make it to the streets, it’ll be in the aisles.

 

[GeauxLSU]

I'll say it again. We run out of fuel (or even just diesel) so that trucks don't keep the grocery store shelves full and 72 hours is exactly what it will take for full societal breakdown.
And yes, unlike generations ago, there is no 'glue that binds' the country today. Infinite tribes, each one thinking they are owed.

 

[AK74U]

Fuel makes the world go round.

I'll say it again. We run out of fuel (or even just diesel) so that trucks don't keep the grocery store shelves full and 72 hours is exactly what it will take for full societal breakdown.
And yes, unlike generations ago, there is no 'glue that binds' the country today. Infinite tribes, each one thinking they are owed.

 

[charlie hotel lima]

"-Stan" means "land of"
Kazakhstan, the land of Kazakhs.
Tadjikistan, the land of Tadjiks
Etc, etc

Then there's the "make a new plan" Stan