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Even with all the protests and antifa vs. proudboys stuff, there's actually very little political violence in America. There's definitely a lot less than there was in the lead up to the Civil War.
Nobody's getting beaten almost to death with a cane in Congress (yet)
The Pentagon avoids politicization, and it would resist a civil war.
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And the shared national experience of military service disintegrated with the abolition of conscription in 1973.
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None of this precludes the real possibility of increased conflict. America has a rich history of violence. It is sobering to review the long list of armed rebellions, riots, attacks by and against striking workers and massacres of Indigenous people, immigrants and minorities that mark our history before and since the Civil War. But the historical record seems to indicate that the country has a high tolerance for violence without breaking apart.
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conscription is unfortunately not actually abolished, they just haven't started a war big enough with enough public support to use the legal system rather than the economic system to acquire combatants.
We need a Dave Chappelle "modern problems call for modern solutions" emoji
for real though people are fucking losing it imagine getting assaulted by some hog for putting a nalgene in the seat pocket like holy shit
We are a nation of trapped animals
1800 unvaccinated flight attendants about to return to duty right before holiday travel gets going!
... no ... it cannot be! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkJGNjNR65Q
The military and the people getting a light spanking for being unruly
Realistically it would immediately descend into thousands of factions fighting each other over even the smallest ideological differences
We've seen violence... in the skies
Oh my god holy shit these people are supposed to be professional writers. Or communicators at least! Goddamn, my sides :data-laughing:
