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!

  • Maturin [any]
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    4 months ago

    There is absolutely no way any of those other states would be part of something called the Florida Alliance

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    It was very considerate of the civil war to leave exact state borders intact.

    • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      as though any separatist movement involving Utah isn't going to immediately eat a chunk out of every surround state

  • Redcuban1959 [any]
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    4 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 [none/use name]
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      4 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 [he/him]
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      4 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 [none/use name]
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        4 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.

      • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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        4 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.

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        For example, these maps always split Utah and Nevada because “Mormons” and “Sin City”

        This entire premise is false because plenty of Mormons are hypocrites like most right wing Christians in amerikkka

      • Teapot [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Also, there are a lot of Mormons in Nevada. They're about 6% of the population!

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      government has become a dystopian dictatorship

      has become

      [looks around]

      agony-limitless

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    the american fantasy of a civil war is based on stereotypes they've made for themselves and vibes. It has no material basis in reality.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    lol that these people still think it's 1861 and that a modern American civil war would have these clean borders and clearly defined factions

    • GeorgeZBush [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      There arent even any breakaway regions! West Virgina exists because of the civil war, and other parts of the South even resisted the Confederacy!

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    4 months ago

    Texas would've immediately invaded every state in the "Florida alliance" and incorporated them

    California and Washington state would remain loyal, but Washington state would get jumped by the so-called "western forces", and would need to be saved by California, turning Oregon into a bloody battlezone in the process

    Nevada would run to California to save itself from being eaten alive by the Dark Mormon Empire, who will sacrifice the entire population of Arizona to summon a massive daemon army to conquer Texas and California

    The Feds would maintain control of the Tide Water, but there would be a massive insurgency in rural areas

    Tennessee, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Nebraska, Georgia, and Oregon would become battlezones where the majority of the "conventional" fighting is done, practically every other state will see rural vs urban insurgencies

  • SSJ2Marx
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    4 months ago

    Imagining a better version of this movie based on the alt history in that WW2 game mod everyone likes.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    i mean, i'm gonna watch the flick because i liked his vision for Annihilation and several of his other movies. but i don't see how any florida breakaway project would not involve South Carolina, but would get... Oklahoma? or maybe it's unfair to assume any coherence to some "first days of collapse" map, since state borders are imaginary and what such a map (one that only shows state borders) would really reflect is national guard movements, military bases, and power projection over de facto state capitals being extrapolated outward to historic borders. so basically, nonsense.

    like the SC/GA split bothers me, but Parris Island, SC is right there, so maybe there's a logic obscured by this mosaic.

  • TimmytheDragon [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    And it's all about libs clipping each other...no revolutionary factions at all.

  • GinAndJuche
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    4 months ago

    It’s dumb as hell. The only justification I can come up with they aligned as the only stand alone breakaways. A sort of interests align moment.

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    does this say california and texas are allies, or does it say that they're both individual republics.........

  • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    i would not expect anything else from a film studio started by Scout from TF2

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    They don't take the idea seriously. Because in a real civil war, PA would be split between Wawa and Sheetz.