https://twitter.com/rabbitfordinner/status/1740609135044083919
this mf thinks we still have medieval walled cities, like dude, you can literally just… walk out of the city. I mean, yeah, you can indeed disrupt logistics, but there’s a pretty big gap between “trucks can’t get in to deliver supplies” and “entire population is trapped inside of the city”. Also railway transport isn’t real I guess
also love the idea of completely destroying supply routes into the city with… backhoes and gravel. I guess city folk don’t have any construction equipment of their own to clear and repair their roads. Also I guess the roads are just going to be conveniently completely empty for however many hours it takes you to block them, because, uh…
do an area study
The idea that white rural chuds completely control the food supply is laughable. The people who are actually growing and picking the food are the same ones chuds cry about “invading the US”.
Food Production is pretty much thought of as a transient property where if you live near it, it means somehow you’re part of it. Pretty global trend, too, real odd shit. Whenever I press these people on it it’s usually revealed they think of themselves as infrastructure providers for actual farmers by way of making sure there is enough money to maintain roads or keep a supermarket afloat or something
“I’m hungry Papa, why can’t we leave the city to try to find some food in the country side ?”
“The roads, son… they have done a number on them. So many potholes. We are doomed.”
“But can’t we just wal…”
“POTHOLES, son. It’s hopeless. Time to eat the neighbours”
This guy sat in traffic during rush hour one time and decided he could do a Bigger Than 9-11 by spilling some dirt onto I-45
He kind of has a point in the carbrained sense where the only transportation method is car. Not in the civil war style scenario but otherwise you’d need surprisingly few people to basically throw an entire cities car transportation network into a multi day gridlock
you’d need surprisingly few people to basically throw an entire cities car transportation network into a multi day gridlock
Back in 2006 some students from Georgia Tech shut down Atlanta for 12 hours by driving the speed limit, side-by-side, around the circular I-285 Atlanta bypass during rush hour. Got traffic to snake all the way around the circle and form a car ouroborous. They tried to charge the kids with conspiracy & domestic terrorism & shit at first, because 2006, but most they could get them for was obstruction of traffic.
So yeah, proof of concept at least.
Lmao, took them all of 4 people to do it.
But yeah, pretty much. Disrupt traffic flow at a major intersection a bit by your usual non-enforced traffic infractions like double parking inconveniently or missing much or all of the green phase due to being on your smartphone or similar, 3 other people do the same at feeding arterial roads for like 10 minutes until all the impatient carbrains start trying to cheat their way onto non-cleared intersections and ta-da, gridlock that’s now become a massive headache to unfuck. x10 if you can convince someone to get into a minor fender bender after it and then start arguing and taking lots and lots of photos on the road. Takes like 4 guys with all of the conviction of “maybe get a ticket” to pull it off, I’m genuinely surprised no one ever tried it.
This is my favorite take. Literally living in looney tunes world. I feel like this would be a felix bit. You’d think for a people who have their entire lives revolve around cars, they’d have a better understanding of how roads work
I have heard US infrastructure is terrible like this, with most cities only have one or two major ways out, but the key there is major. The major roads can get destroyed, but there are dozens and potentially hundreds of others. and if a road gets blocked, it could always…get cleared? Cities tend to have a lot of construction equipment around, or so I hear.
