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  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    balkanize is the word we use for it but the United States will not split into several soverign warring countries like Yugoslavia. there are no social divides as consistent and dramatic in the US.

    come on folks, this the Yankee Century of Humiliation. What are we getting? Warlord Era. Yes, a few Warlords will pretend to be independent countries, a few will be de-facto, but won't claim to be. but the maps will all still show the same country.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah this is the safe bet. The mechanism of warlordization will be the state governments - as the federal government recedes into only maintaining the military and printing the currency, state governments will fill the void and there will be a moment where the Governors of the big states will all have more domestic power than the President. I could see one of them declaring themselves independent and it going about as well as Catalonia's attempt did, leading to the rest to realize that that's not in the cards.

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I hear (white) libs and chuds talk about a civil war coming and I’m always asking what exactly they’re going to fight and die over. From where I’m sitting most of the ~60% of people in this country who are white don’t have enough differences between each other to war over. Are libs and chuds really going to battle to the death over Trump vs Robert Mueller and the rule of law? There’s no way. And I can’t see the libs going to war over lgbt rights.

      The chuds I see calling for civil war are especially funny, because they’re all comfortable people. What, you’re going to give up your lifted truck and your nice house with central cooling and junk food to put on fatigues and march overland only to die in an artillery bombardment? It’s all just hot air.

      Maybe if we get to the point where water is scarce or the like people will have something concrete to fight over. Even something like a race war, the people the fash would need to make up their armies are all too well-off to give up their lives of plenty. Things are going to need to get very, very bad before I could imagine a civil war happening.

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        chuds I see calling for civil war

        when they say this they mean the army will come round up the lib politicians and do all the fighting while they get to put on a jackboot and enact their violent fantasies on their local subdivision.

    • redthebaron [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      i want to see americans doing mongolian horse archery but in motorcycles to each other, folks the great khan of the great lakes, he is no good he is filthy, but his biker archers aim true, folks, more and people are saying it

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        a Guomindang military advisor to the Nationalist Nebraska Army Command mumbling about how "the kind Yan Xishan would've shot everyone here" :kind-vladimir-ilyich: