Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

Post by mmmpop » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:09 PM UTC

taneq wrote: post #24

jason-phillips wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Cooperation is natural and good. Recently, after seeing people from Dallas haul their trailers to my small Texas town's grocery store so as to pillage our remaining toilet paper stock, my faith in the rational ability of my fellow Man has been somewhat reduced.

The first time people got into literal fist fights in supermarkets over toilet paper, my faith in the rational ability of most humans was shaken. The third time around, it was gone. By now my expectations of humans are, sadly, extremely limited.

Post by MS90 » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #14

> But there was only one moment that really ruptured my suspension of disbelief while reading this whole gonzo book: a scene in which a character from “the autonomous city of Austin” remembers pushing his way onto that city’s subway. Obviously, one can accept that Austin would become a separatist people’s republic within a fractured Texas. But the idea of the “Austin Metro” operating there, even fifty years from now?…

Post by GoToThePubMate » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:17 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #14

> But there was only one moment that really ruptured my suspension of disbelief while reading this whole gonzo book: a scene in which a character from “the autonomous city of Austin” remembers pushing his way onto that city’s subway. Obviously, one can accept that Austin would become a separatist people’s republic within a fractured Texas. But the idea of the “Austin Metro” operating there, even fifty years from now?…

Post by BrainVirus » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:35 PM UTC

Post by achenatx » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:36 PM UTC

MS90 wrote: post #33

dkarl wrote: post #14

> But there was only one moment that really ruptured my suspension of disbelief while reading this whole gonzo book: a scene in which a character from “the autonomous city of Austin” remembers pushing his way onto that city’s subway. Obviously, one can accept that Austin would become a separatist people’s republic within a fractured Texas. But the idea of the “Austin Metro” operating there, even fifty years from now?…

There's also the fact that there's only about six inches of dirt here, dig any deeper than that and you hit solid limestone. That's why none of the houses here have basements.