• budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I'll be real with you guys: If a civil war were to ever actually break out here, I'd probably just make a run for it to Canada or Mexico.

    • sadfacenogains [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      As a leftist that would be the smartest move. Pack your bags and leave with your family/friends the moment you sniff something's up. The government absolutely knows your ideology and you beliefs, and in the case of a civil war, the government would be more than willing to "accidently" out any leftists to make sure they are removed first. With leftists removed, the outcome of the civil war would be either a good result or better result from the perspective of the ruling class.

      • Express [any,none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I would start planning now. You already have fascists storming the capital and the democrats are obviously going to ramp up the police state in response because there clearly wasn’t enough security in their view.

        Obviously you can’t leave until after COVID, but if the actual event starts you wont be able to make it over without a lot of prep work done in advance. Immigrating is hard at the best of times, doing it when you have to worry about car bombs going off regularly is not something you want to do. Countries move slowly and wont be taking ‘refugees’ either for fear of offending whatever power wins until it’s clear the situation is completely out of control. Even after that they still wont want to take them for fear of the instability being exported. Look at how the EU is handling immigration from the Middle East. When your countrymen have a reputation for blowing up anyone suggesting socialized health care since it’s communism, how many countries will look favorably on fresh immigration from there? The US is very far away geographically from the rest of the world limiting your options further to effectively Canada, Mexico and interstate travel. The time to get 80% of the way out of the US is now.

    • kristina [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      im pretty good at first aid and have used it a lot of times so id probably just end up helping casualties as a nurse or some shit, dont think i could ever stomach killing someone tbh. plus, from what ive heard from people in civil war areas (not in the middle east), life is very strangely and terrifyingly the same as it was before, just you have a chance of getting shot while commuting to work and there are way more shortages.

    • BasedGiraffe [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah honestly it would be pretty bleak to be a leftist here during that happening any time in the near future. The deck would completely be stacked for the right, and even if they lost we’d probably just get some form liberalism again.

      The police are hyper-militarized fascists, there are semi-functional right wing militias, the libs aren’t even fucking soc dems, the military is a mixed bag of ideology, and there’s no significant left presence at the moment.

      It might be pretty black pilled but I’m with you on trying to just leave instead of getting the KPD treatment