>>1351765With what food, logistics, or communications are these boogeymen coming for you if all modern tools and civilisation is gone?
If you're not visible from the road and 30+ miles out of town how are they finding you exactly? The internet is gone, they're not googling "homestead near me". And do you honestly think a homesteading org that believed in the collapse (TM) wouldn't have ranged weapons?
The army is not coming to kill you. Why would they give up well defended bases, likely containing fields and tools so they could farm themselves, for 10 acres of squash and beans?
And the police? Why would they turn feral (but still stay together) and decide to mess with you? What makes you think that having resources and skills to fight crime in the present makes them somehow a special threat?
Which leaves us with the "mercs". Who's going to win, a ragtag band of larpers coming across the plains, after a 30+ mile ruck, probably hungry and tired from having jack all food, or a well rested and decently fed group with a defensible position and a line of sight on all approach angles?
Such a stupid fantasy. If anything people have banded together in recent sieges like Sarajevo, not turned to chaos.
