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[–] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 days ago (20 children)

I don't know where else to ask this question...or even if I'm formulating this question properly in my rage.

Violence in the streets seems to be inevitable to me at this point with the recent revelation that Minnesota will not be allowed to perform a state-level investigation in to Renee Nicole Good's death. The sheer audacity of the injustice, the inhumanity before, during and after this event, the clear and shameless lying. Now, they are attacking your children. If Americans take this lying down then there truly is no Rubicon, so at this point I'm practically hoping for violence, because how many more dead would the alternative bring? That feels wrong to me, but if no one stands up for these victims, then obviously their number will rise exponentially. But that's not my question.

My question is, when this thing explodes and the violence breaks out. When Trump and his goons do the only thing their limited minds can think of and try to "crack down". When it all goes to fucking shit... then what? Line up on sides like a dodgeball team and States start rebelling like it's 150 years ago? Isolated city-states locked out from Federal support and interference? Trump declares himself President for Life?

It's not weird that those resisting fascism have no solid plan, this is being thrust upon them. It might have been predictable but I can't blame people for not really believing it until folks started dying. But it seems weird that the instigators of this fucking circus don't even seem to be able to tell me what their fucking goal is. Do they honestly think they can create a brutal Christofascist ethno-state out of modern America? That no one will stop them, just because no one has killed them yet? And more insanely, if they do succeed, do they think they'll all live through that attempt?

[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

There will not be battle lines.

Take a look back at the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland to get more of a sense of what a modern civil war would look like. You can also look at the insurgencies in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, though obviously those countries are much different from the US than the UK is.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

The battle lines, if people are convinced that there really is a 'fight' going on, will be between individual houses and apartments. I know that there are those among my neighbors who tracked what political signs were where... and they have no problem making their position known. We are too 'integrated' as a society to keep even a semblance of separation between conservatives, liberals, progressives, fascists, 'antifascists,' democrats, republicans...

and we have a lot more trigger happy yokels armed to the teeth (in civilian terms). It's going to suck. We can all hold out hope for the midterms, but fuck...

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