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If or when some crazy yahoos “declare” a civil war. All those toy soldiers aka weekend warriors. You know the type who own 300 guns lives in a bomb shelter and has been praying for the world to end since 1979. Those folks with have to contend with not you or me per say. The will contend with the United States Military. The tuffest military and the most trained, and frankly who has the best toys in the world for killing people. Our military is well versed in urban and rural fighting techniques. Did i mention the also own a bunch of drones. Yeah im not to worried
If they organize, they won't even make it to the military, they will be quickly stopped by our militarized police force. I fear that this is going to end up with crazy people commiting random acts of terrorism.
Some of those that work forces...
Are the same that golf courses?
Crazy people are already committing random acts of terrorism, remember when some Trumper took out an electrical substation about a year ago and left a couple dozen thousand people without heat or power in the dead of winter? All that to shut down a drag show (supposedly).
That's honestly been their gameplan for years. Anders Breivik might've been the first to put it to widespread paper in his manifesto, but the whole idea of terror cells was something that right-wing militias have been wargaming since the 80s. Even when you get a bunch of terror incidents grouped REAL tight together (like the Pride parade situations we've had lately, which all seem to share MOs), they get written off as "just a bunch of dudes" or "lone wolves" and never get reported on as "well Jim and Tim and John and Tom are assumed to be part of a larger terror network" because saying "hey this seems likely to be a problem and we should be on the lookout" doesn't sell papers the same way as "CRAZED LONE WOLF" does.
This group has been masturbating to Red Dawn, shouting Wolerines! as thry orgasm, for 40 years now.
I don't know. "Terror cells on the rise. Is your son joining one? Find out at 10!"
So, um, about that...
Dude they've been doing this for so long; mass killings stopped being news.
I think it's important to remember how many civilians we killed in Iraq trying to get the bad ones. Yes, the US military would put down an insurrection... I don't know know how fast it would be, and I don't know that they wouldn't kill my kids when they drone strike the guy down the street...
In their pipe dreams (and their Chatapp groups or whatever), the US military will fight on their side. Oh boy are they in for a surprise.
I'm hoping that the A24 movie Civil War is impactful on any future discussion of American Civil War 2.
Is it good?
I'm hoping. It's not out until April 12 in US and UK:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(film)
Reviews for it are pretty good! I like most A24 distributed movies so I'm hopeful. Rated pretty high on all the aggregators all critics and no audience: 7.2/10 · IMDb, 93% · Rotten Tomatoes, 79% · Metacritic
I wouldn't count on the military being on a particular side, but I should point out that their record against illiterate dipshits who don't understand wearing shoes is 0-2.
Then again, their record on the rare instance they fight against fascists is 3-0, undefeated. And those wins were against the best the fasch had to offer, delivered pretty spectacularly.