We're fucking doomed. Or are we?

[Magnus McGinty]

I did read the new yorker article mentioned in the above, was slightly disconcerted to be reading about old nuclear missile silos being converted into apoca-flats at loony tunes money to buy.

Sort of want to live in one anyway, apocalypse or not.

I relish the possibility that the ultra rich may end up in some sealed off bunker eating their own faeces, fearing their own guards outside due to some apocalyptic event of their own making.
You don’t even need to pretend to be a theist for that particular outcome to be possible.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I watched an anti-Trump protest on the news the other day. The White House was practically surrounded. If all those people threw themselves at that target, I doubt if security could come anywhere near killing all of them. They may find that there's really nowhere to hide, except letting a little more of the gravy fall off their table to the rest of us.

The problem with doing that though, as satisfying as it might be, is that Trump is merely a representative of the system. Offing him won’t make it go away.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I relish the possibility that the ultra rich may end up in some sealed off bunker eating their own faeces, fearing their own guards outside due to some apocalyptic event of their own making.
You don’t even need to pretend to be a theist for that particular outcome to be possible.

This was basically the end of Joseph Heller's novel Closing Time.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I watched an anti-Trump protest on the news the other day. The White House was practically surrounded. If all those people threw themselves at that target, I doubt if security could come anywhere near killing all of them. They may find that there's really nowhere to hide, except letting a little more of the gravy fall off their table to the rest of us.

Bunkers, underground trains, helicopter pads... Pretty sure they have missle launchers on the roof too (or at least they did in The West Wing)

 

[Ralph Llama]

All intelligent analysis leads to one conclusion.... fuck knows! I hope not.(thread question)

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Bunkers, underground trains, helicopter pads... Pretty sure they have missle launchers on the roof too (or at least they did in The West Wing)

Yes, I'm aware. I still doubt you could kill them all before they got over the fence. At that point they're going hand to hand with your own security. You might get a few out by helicopter or underground train (there is one), but you have to wonder if the one's who will be abandoned will take it kindly. It wouldn't be the first head of state who was executed by their own guard.

 

[MickiQ]

These shelters that are communities and have got theaters, restaurants, spa's and other such stuff, who works in these facilities? do the locals come in every day from their radioactive shacks to work?