• figaro@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I’m curious, do you actually think there is going to be another civil war?

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      1 year ago

      We’re literally already in one. We’ve been in a cold civil war for about a decade now (arguably the past few decades), and the war’s been growing hotter with every mass shooting and tragedy like this one.

      This is how civil wars are fought in the modern age. It’s not all fancy suits and muskets. It’s large swaths of people with opposing views killing each other over it at every opportunity, like this one.

      Why do you think school shootings happen? Or mass shootings in general? The vast majority of them are committed by members of right-wing hate groups and it’s part of this civil war they’ve been waging against the left. The whole point is to eradicate the left or force them to submit to their will.

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        1 year ago

        The first civil war never ended. It entered a cold phasw for 150 years or so. That’s heating up now.

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          There were even people waving the battle flag of the Confederate army/navy when the neoconfederates invaded Congress on January 6, 2021.

          I still can’t believe that these people are getting such light sentences for taking up arms and invading the Capitol.

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        1 year ago

        I haven’t listened to the podcast, so maybe I’m wrong… but isn’t the “it” in “it could happen here” referring to fascism, not a second civil war?

        Pretty important distinction imo