How do Hollywood make a civil war movie and make it apolitical? LOOK AT HOW AWFUL THIS MAP IS! (hexbear.net)

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You cannot make a civil war movie and it not be political the British guy who thought California and Texas would ever be allies needs to get fired. IF HE HAD ANY BRAVERY HE WOULD HAVE MADE THE PRESIDENT TRUMP!

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Civil War is an upcoming dystopian action film, written and directed by Alex Garland. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, Jesse Plemons, and Nick Offerman. The film follows a team of journalists who travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War, which has engulfed the entire nation.

In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War that has engulfed the entire nation, between the American government and the separatist "Western Forces" led by Texas and California. The film documents the journalists struggling to survive during a time when the government has become a dystopian dictatorship and partisan extremist militias regularly commit war crimes.

Texas and California together?! jesse-wtf

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

partisan extremist militias regularly commit war crimes.

Oh, great. for the first time I bet it'll be horseshoe theory shown nationwide visually and graphically. There's no way there are liberal extremist militias.

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

My big problem with these post-apocalypse civil war scenarios is they still try and shoehorn in ideology when that’s likely to play very little part in that scenario especially. For example, these maps always split Utah and Nevada because “Mormons” and “Sin City”… but those two states are tied together in a lot of material ways (economy, interstate migration, etc) and would be much more likely to work together, since the Rockies really are almost like a small ocean.

So in theory, could CA and TX align? Yeah, maybe? But I don’t see any sort of material base for that assumption.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Nevada, Arizona, and Utah are also red desert states that rely on the Colorado river. They’d likely unite to fight California and New Mexico in order to invade Colorado to secure their treats and lawns.

[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Thats when California activates all its transplants we’ve been sending to all the lesser states and take them all from within.

Nevada is essentially an extension of SoCal at this point

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Lmao I never thought of that. The idea that the Californian exodus is actually some Illegals Program is pretty fucking funny

[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Why do you think we sent our most annoying Californians?

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

What role would Mexico and Canada play. Would Puerto Rico attempt independence from Florida? What would Cuba do?

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Cuba preemptively nukes Miami

The PLA finally strikes from the Canadian border following a multi-year build up

Puerto Rico nukes Miami a second time

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Or Utah/Nevada would have an internal conflict and one of the two ideological forces would prevail over the other and coerce the other to adopt its customs while continuing to utilize the material, economic connection.

I'm fighting for Sin City.