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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 50 minutes ago

What can be done to prevent those living in bunkers like this from ever coming back out alive?

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

These fucks are GROUND ZERO for humanity's collective dysfunction. They really think concentrating their filth in a fucking bunker isn't going to brew the literal worst toxic behavior ever witnessed?

Have at it in my opinion. Lock em in and melt the keys.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 hours ago

Like most of their ideas the bunker strategy is idiotic because it completely fails to take into account the psychology of the individual. They used to flying around all over the planet and experiencing the best in life, for the most part they've lived this life since before they knew what their own fingers were for because they were born into wealth, these people are not going to do well in a tiny underground facility.

The people who would do the best in the bunker are the people they are in the bunker to hide away from.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Can we stage a fake crisis so they all flee to their bunkers, then we all lock them inside?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

We just have to have teams in place to break them up so they don't come back out again.

[–] nullify3112@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Genius. I’m getting my asteroid ready. Get your telescope lined up.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 9 hours ago

Can we seal the bunkers with cement?

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I used to work on a residential cruise ship for billionaires. You should see them fight.

Children...all of them.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 hours ago

It's a known phenomenon. When surrounded by sycophants, when on the top of a severe power imbalance you forget how to adult and how to empathize.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 8 points 10 hours ago

Story time!

[–] modus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

What is a residential cruise ship?

[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Huh, who could have predicted this?

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago

Really, the most disconnected from humanity unlikable people aren’t getting along? Weird.

[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 2 points 7 hours ago

,,Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish... flippin' glorious little sausages. Pen them up together and they will devour each other without a second thought. Human nature, in'it? Ooor... fish nature. "

~ Jack Sparrow

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 54 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

If this is really the best of humanity that will weather the storm, we could be doomed after all.

Why do people keep saying or assuming that these are the best of humanity? These literally are the leeches of humanity, the narcissistic antisocial hoarders who think they're the cream of the crop and obviously the only ones deserving of survival of the disaster they helped create.

Fuck these people, I hope they all die in a fire or something, humanity will be off better

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago

I hope they all get sealed in their bunkers from the outside and go insane trapped in the tomb they’ve created.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 10 points 15 hours ago

It is one of the worst parts of US culture and one of the greatest accomplishments of capitalists' propaganda that we generally see the rich as noble and admirable while the poor are evil and disgusting.

Not to be all US-centric about it, but that's where I live and I think this place's reputation speaks for itself.

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[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Look at Fallout series for more inspiration about what might happen

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 28 points 16 hours ago
[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

Have these guys ever considered that the survivors outside the bunkers might just weld the bunker doors shut whilst those inside watch them do it on closed circuit television?

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

I would bury them after the welding, then scout where the escape hatches and weld and bury them too... Then the air system...

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I think the bigger threat is people dropping toxic gas or bombs down the ventilation shafts.

cause ventilation shafts will be found, eventually, no matter how well they hide them.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 44 minutes ago

They could do like submarines and have air scrubbers. That'd keep them going for a while with no vents.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 10 hours ago

Then just cut the doors open and loot the supply hoards. Convenient that you can look these things up on the internet and save map pins to find them in case of need...

If there's any kind of catastrophe, people are going to want the resources inside these things. They're not going to destroy the bunkers, just their occupants. Yeah, gas would do the trick. I'd suggest starting with CS, just to send a message.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, make their bunkers their tombs. And the antisocial distance is poetic.

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 34 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

These people are such morons. It would take about 2 minutes of an intro level Anthropology class to learn that for like 95% of human history we lived in small groups like this — so we’re definitely able to do it — but they only worked because they were (mostly) egalitarian. They absolutely don’t work when group members consistently value themselves over the group.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

people are such morons

Wait until you read about Cryonics...

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They weren't necessarily egalitarian, but they all involved a sense of duty to the community the ability to reinvent the structure of the community, and the freedom to leave. They were also smaller than this. But yeah this is a bunch of people who don't understand how to function in a community like this.

Also I'm not certain why these people are already living in the bunkers

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

They are so disconnected from reality they think the world has already ended. Evidence of this would be the minor pushback to things like AI they are starting to experience.

A bunch of them went and hid in their bunkers when 9/11 happened. Obviously a pretty bad thing to happen but hardly the end of the world. Sadly they came out about 2 days later because they got bored.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ew imagine having to share a bunker with a bunch of stanky, ugly, fat pedophiles...

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[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (10 children)

These aren’t “the wealthy” - most of these are priced at $50k-75k. That’s prepper nutjob price ranges and it’s no surprise that they’re shooting people with front end loaders since obviously it’s the government disguised as the company workers, coming to dig them out and take their guns.

The people who are actually wealthy have the means to not live in a hole in South Dakota surrounded by other people in their own holes. Their hole in the ground will be somewhere much less advertised.

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 28 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (8 children)

You would have thought that the people making these shelters would have learned from Covid that they simply can’t crawl in a hole and stay safe. The wealthy are used to soft easy living and a underclass of people who do what they tell them to because of their money.

If we really had a society ending disease or event they wouldn’t last two weeks before they came out of their bunkers looking for entertainment because they were bored. You couldn’t tell most of them to stay inside or even wear a fucking mask during Covid.

On top of that they may have the skills to make money but the skills a P.E. Investor has from raiding healthy companies and pilfering assets is not the same skill set needed to lead people when money has no meaning and/or form collective groups to survive.

Without a government and its protection, the wealthy are just going to end up dead with the head of security for the bunker fucking their trophy wife.

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[–] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 103 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Who would have thought confining some of the most self-centred, egotistical, greedy and morally flexible people together in a living situation might not work out.

Shocker..

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (9 children)

Never understood these bunkers in modern times.

If TSHTF so hard that someone truly needs to bunker up for months on end civilization as we know it will likely be at an end. No coming back from it. Congrats, you survived to enjoy the death of everything we know. Heck knows they didn’t store a hoard of raw materials, tools, physical books full of knowledge, farm implements, seeds, and have ready access to individuals with year 1895 level skills to make it all work. They only thought of themselves and stored some food, lots of booze, and a little medicine, figuring they could jet off to some safe haven when it was convenient.

If it were even the 1950s I think there would still be enough of a reservoir of local material and knowledge, and everything was mostly manually skilled labor to create, so bunkering could have worked out. But not today. Global supply chains, relocated resource extraction and manufacturing, and everything computerized has virtually guaranteed the impossibility of bootstrapping modern civilization should it fail.

They’re just as dead, but they get to enjoy roving starving humans trying to kill them over whatever's left.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 10 hours ago

1895 level skills

Try 1695. There will be bits and bobs of modern life around, but the core skills required are going to be very much what the European settlers in the new world needed.

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