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I don't really understand the usage of the term "prepper" in relation to Anarchist Cookbook. I think of prepper as someone with an underground bunker with a large cache of vacuum-sealed stew and pickled eggs. If anything related to weapons, it's just the inventory and tools necessary to make reloads.

Similar with "gun nut" sites - these usually have content covering the latest innovation in trigger mechanisms, what the right carbon content of the steel is, etc.

Caricaturing people in the wrong way cannot serve any useful purpose.

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Prepper sites on improvised munitions: [1][2] Pinterest version.[3] (That reflects more of what Pinterest's algorithms think go together.)

[1] http://www.prepperdome.com/make-gunpowder-old-fashioned-way/ [2] http://www.americanpreppersnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=733&t... [3] https://www.pinterest.com/pin/418905202815123011/

It's because of one of the most influential "prepper"s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Saxon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poor_Man%27s_James_Bond

Preppers do a lot more than just store pickled eggs. The kind of person who tends to be a prepper also tends to distrust the federal government, be paranoid of centralized power, and is often prepping for civil war, or at very least civil unrest. It wouldn't surprise me if most people in militias are also preppers of some sort.

To be honest, after reading a bit about it, prepping looks like a very nice hobby.

The biggest downside is that moving becomes impossible after a while and whoever has to handle your estate after you die will curse you into the seventh circle.

Even if they are doing all of those things, it does not mean that their actual activities are anything other than I stated (which, by the way included activities beyond pickling eggs, you cherry-picker).

You seem to be claiming that if someone is a prepper, then they are also planning to blow up buildings, poison populations, etc. Seems a bit of a stretch.

If some militia members are also computer programmers, can I go off and make a bunch of assumptions about computer programmers based solely on this?

No, I said there's a tendency for the two to occur in the same kinds of people. There's a big difference there.

And yeah, I cherry-picked the pickled eggs line. You've gotta admit it was a good one. Neither of the main points of our posts were altered by me saying that, it was just for flavoring.

Why would anyone publish this article, in the current state of things...? Those two words in conjunction completely circumvent any filtering Google does to discourage stumbling on that sort of thing, and it replaces the required familiarity with terminology needed to seek out such information, and minimizes the extensive active pursuit otherwise needed to come upon a collection of such nature; 6 months after his death.... Rediculous!!!

I think you meant ridiculous.

Ha, indeed! 'Redic' is my default auto-correct :p

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