They 100% believe all the protesters are bussed in with pallets of bricks waiting for them. My co workers 100% believe this.

Its fucking sickening. And they all have kids, teaching them all this fox news hate and racism daily.

Sometimes I truly just want to leave here.

I agree. To have civil war you need multiple opposing armed forces of somewhat similar military strength. I don't really see that happening because of the purges of military leadership but an insurgency is very possible.

Yep, there is no organization capable of staging armed opposition to the government. A series of mass shootings and maybe some explosives is all we are going to get.

Given the number of incidents, I wouldn't be shocked if historians decide later we are already living through it. Political assasinations in Minnesota, the attempted murder of pelosi's husband, attempted trump shooter, charkie Kirk, the car bomb in Memphis that didn't go off a few years ago. The United Healthcare CEO hit. Attempted kidnapping of Gretchen Whitmer.

There is plenty of violence to go around, but nothing that would rise to civil war.

I have imagined a scenario where a debt crisis degrades the capacity of the federal government and polarization leaves citizens and national guard more loyal to their state than the federal government, but we are a long way away from that.

People forget that labor unions were a major factor in Tiananmen Square, US labor unions are not a credible threat to take over so don't need to be put down as brutally.

At the end of the day, the die hard MAGA folks are a quarter of the country. The stuff they're doing is wildly unpopular. At some point you have to fight for democracy. It is worth dying for. It is worth killing for. If we have to go through a troubles, so be it. Frankly, this probably isn't going to end until we start seeing a whole lot of dead Evangelical Christians. The Christian nationalists are so used to being able to violently oppress and persecute everyone else. They don't realize that their own lives and freedoms can be just as easily destroyed.

We already are in a civil war. One portion of the population has declared war on everyone else, hell bent on forcing their evil beliefs on everyone else. They do so in the confidence that they themselves will never face persecution, the loss of their rights, or a threat of violence. White Evangelical Christians are way too fucking comfortable.

Honestly, a troubles might be the best thing to knock some sense into these fuckers. Once the retaliatory killings start and their churches start getting torched, maybe it will finally get through their thick skulls that if you want to live in a democracy, you have to be willing to respect other people's choices and let them live their own fucking lives.

The troubles ended because both sides felt threatened. No one felt safe. This encouraged everyone to come to the table. Right now one side feels invincible. They believe they can act with complete impunity against the rest of the population. So far, we're all just holding our punches and trying not to escalate things, but these fuckers just keep pushing. Something will have to give.

Mutual bloody violence is a superior option to one-sided bloody violence, which is the situation we have now.

https://youtu.be/MN_9VqfVQ9c

That was partially just a result of the NG having rifles but not the less than lethal tear gas and stuff now.

Lol buying a gun won't fix anything. You need to train with it and connect with other people who know how to use guns (and who can get other resources for you) or well, Luigi Mangione can tell you the other option.

Just consuming gun won't fix anything.