The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

Guardian ^ | 9/4/22 | Douglas Rushkoff

[MHGinTN]

IF they survive the catastrophe resulting from hundreds of millions suddenly disappearing in the Rapture around the world, the Bible hints they may be the ones that ask the mountains to fall on them to hide them from the wrath of The Lamb.

[MHGinTN]

Beat me to it!

[laplata]

“Fill their air vent with rotten meat, then shoot them and take over when they exit”

That’s what their security people will do.

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

Their Praetorian Guards will put a bullet in their heads and then keep the site for themselves. Problem solved. But let them believe that they’ll be safe.

[ducttape45]

I hate to tell all those rich preppers this, well, actually I don't (!!!) but the Bible says they won't escape.

Revelation 6:15-17, "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and among the rocks of the mountains, And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is come, and who can stand?"

All their preparations won't do them any good if my Bible is correct, and it always is!

[CapnJack]

"Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?"

"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious...service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."

[frank ballenger]

Dialogue....

Ah yes, it all comes back to me.
Thanks.

[SaveFerris]

I was waiting for that one

[Dick Vomer]

who do they think built the structures they are going to occupy?

The mechanics, plumbers, electricians, dry wall contractors, landscapers and on and on will know where and what is being kept in their little compounds. They are just piggy banks for the roaming groups of men with weapons that will take what they need. ....

I can just see Zuckerberg, Bezos, Cuban, or any of the tech turds that think that hundreds of millions of dollars is going to save them, when they get the rude awakening .........when they realize that you can pay security forces to kill for you.... but you can’t pay them to die for you.....

They’ll be gone in the first month of the anarchy if our country went to pieces...

They’re yapping about a “civil war” and don’t have a clue that the first ones put up against the wall will be the thug enforcers in the federal, state and local level, the bureaucrats and the elites that think they are pulling the puppet strings.... schadenfreude.

[willk]

I’m really confused? This is the Guardian? Left wing publication blaming the ultra rich who are destroying our country? I’m obviously missing something and I refuse to go to their website.

[arthurus]

How are they going to pay their mercenaries when the money is toilet paper and in the extreme situation they are preparing for even gold will be no good. And if they don't pay, their guard will simply appropriate what they are guarding. All of a sudden Bill Gates will have a group of armed men around him with no incentive to guard him.

[Justa]

“Fill their air vent with rotten meat, then shoot them and take over when they exit”

Are any of your neighbors ...still alive?

[dsrtsage]

“Are any of your neighbors ...still alive?”

Only the ones that don’t vote

[beethovenfan]

Sorry, it won’t work.

[Jonty30]

Or what the environment they will be trying to survive in won’t be much worth surviving in.

[Jonty30]

I’ve long said that, without a military, the best that prepping will allow is a longer provision period for only a few months.

If what happens goes beyond that, there is no amount of prepping that you could do to protect yourself.

[Paladin2]

WaterWorld finally is of some value.

[quikstrike98]

Sooner or later, Justice will find you, a$$holes. When your money is worthless and all you have to your name is the tyranny and misery you inflicted on the rest of us. And then you will die like dogs at the hands of your own hired mercenaries.

[Paladin2]

“On the Beach”

[Roccus]

Don’t know nuffin’ ‘bout no elves, but there is a FReeper who used to brag about doing just that.