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What would a modern civil war even look like?


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12 hours ago, #34fan said:

It has a large immigrant population, a racially integrated workforce,  good infrastructure, and access to goods and services.  -Who'd wanna f__k that up?

 

The left.

 

Because no matter how good things are, the left believes it will never be fair for everyone, and the only way to make things fair for everyone is for the government to be in charge of everything and dole it out appropriately.

 

Fortunately, the left's idea of a civil war is an Antifa gathering or hiring idiots to harass people at dinner. The fight would be swift and they would be waving a white flag out the front door of every Starbucks in the country before you rang the dinner bell.

 

 

 

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Total Anarchy is more likely than an actual war.

 

In the unlikely event that the central government were taken out, the states would mobilize the national guard to protect the peace.

What you'd need to worry about is whatever replaces the central government... For example, -Mike Huckabee and the evangelicals might try to form a new central government/theocracy. -There'd be pushback on something like that, and many states would choose not to follow.  

 

You'd also have to consider the population itself.... Generations of free-thinking has left us so factional, that we'd naturally separate from those with different interests, and ally with those consitent with our politics.... There'd be untold numbers of competing groups defending their interests, and protecting their people.

 

Meanwhile, what about the electrical grid?  -Does everyone have access clean water? -Medical services?  Are sewage and water treatment facilities still operational?

 

Expect diseases like cholera, influenza, and dysentery to take out tens of thousands... It'd be pretty Darwinian to say the least.

 

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26 minutes ago, The_Dude said:

The very thought of a trans-loving, liberal, in skinny jeans giving gun owners a run for their money is hilarious and absurd. 

 

What about a gay-transsexual defense militia made up of former Navy and Marine corp vets?

 

You know full well that's plausible.

 

 

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10 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

If that is what you are going to use for protection, don't bother. You might as well get yourself a bat and save some money.

Written by somebody who has never taken two .22's to the chest.

5 hours ago, gatorbait said:

 

I agree with this. Even if someone fires a gun at one of those skirmishes what do people think will actually happen next? Masses of people aren’t going to meet on a battlefield like the old school battles of the civil war and fight each other. The police and military would never allow it. We would see blockades and curfews almost immediately. Riot police and the National guard would get in the middle. I guess some people think rural factions will try to go to inner cities and have a shooting war, or vice versa. Good luck with that. Those people in those militias would be stopped with force or arrested and the “war” is over. The two fringe extremes on each side are the ones causing violence. 90% of Americans don’t give a **** and just want to live their life. 

 

Now if our government ever oppressed us enough for us to reach our breaking point, and we actually rallied together as one, I could see us having a civil war but even that is unlikely to ever happen in modern times. 

The basic idea would be more like a left-controlled government versus revolting rural centers.

 

And it could easily go past isolated skirmishes.

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51 minutes ago, #34fan said:

 

What about a gay-transsexual defense militia made up of former Navy and Marine corp vets?

 

You know full well that's plausible.

 

 

 

Most likely they’re not grunts though. Most people in the military aren’t “fighters.” 

 

Only ONE demographic stands out for combat guys. Only one. 

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52 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

I'm not worried.

 

:lol: Funny, but hardly representative of gay vets... In a dystopian future they would probably need to defend themselves for real.

 

I've met lesbian ex-marines most here would hesitate to tussle with.

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1 minute ago, #34fan said:

 

:lol: Funny, but hardly representative of gay vets... In a dystopian future they would probably need to defend themselves for real.

 

I've met lesbian ex-marines most here would hesitate to tussle with.

 

More likely we'd have to defend ourselves from them for real...

 

 

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1 minute ago, DC Tom said:

 

More likely we'd have to defend ourselves from them for real...

 

 

 

Definitely possible.

 

Competing faiths, Races, and ideologies, all weaponized.  Dystopian tribal chaos.

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1 minute ago, #34fan said:

Competing faiths, Races, and ideologies, all weaponized.  Dystopian tribal chaos.

 

Certainly what we're heading for.  Why do you think some of us see a civil war in the future?

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2 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Certainly what we're heading for.  Why do you think some of us see a civil war in the future?

 

History, for one thing.... It happened here before, so some think it can happen here again....

 

Then there's the rancorous  political discourse, and abandonment of civil protocols.   IMO, the breakdown in civility better suits anarchy, than anything else.

 

A two-sided civil war is probably too much to hope for.

 

 

 

 

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