• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    2 days ago

    Robert Evan’s touched on this in their article: https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2403-6-reasons-why-new-civil-war-possible-terrifying.html

    It’s amazing how people on both sides of the aisle have their own fantasy of the civil war. “Oh, we’ll just drone strike the opposition. War done.” “The military will just curb stomp those gravy seals.”

    The whole civil war is going to become My Community vs everyone vs the Government. It’s going to be messy, it’s going to be violent, and it’s going to be bloody.

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      11 hours ago

      Anyone looking forward to neighbour killing neighbor, father’s killing their sons, should ask Yugoslavia how well that went for them

      If you manage to get yourself into a civil war, you’ve already lost

    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      He also did a podcast called It Could Happen Here outlining what he thinks it would look like, and it’s disturbingly close to what we’ve been seeing.

      Edit: It’s still a bi-weekly news podcast, but the first episodes are still the original episodes, if I’m not mistaken.

      He also co-produced the hit 1996 superhero film The Phantom, starring Billy Zane.