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Forget civil war. Mass protests in the US would look like what is happening in Iran.

Baudrillard has a (3?) part essay on how the gulf war never really happened, which by that he meant how we in the West understood the war is that of a media event rather than that of real war. At least that's the heavily simplified version of it. Alot of people's imagery of a war is essentially like drone footage and headlines about Gaza, Few of us can comprehend the idea of being in an active war. I have relatives who have and their anecdotes make war seem more normal and scary the same time.

We really do not know what we are getting ourselves into.

The times may change but people stay the same. In the early days of the (first) American civil war, people expected it to be done and over with very quickly. To the point they went out with picnic baskets and sandwiches to view the battle. They might not have even understood how devastating the war was going to be even as the confederates won that battle.

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One thing you saw in places like Syria and the Balkans was a lot of revenge murders and groups that were essentially gangs terrorizing and enslaving towns.

I remember reading how people in the old Yugoslavia talked about how people they'd lived next to for generations suddenly turned on them. The same in Rwanda where groups were slaughtered en masse. People were packed into churches and the buildings set on fire, etc.

Just a prime opportunity to correct Operation Paperclip and finish what our grandparents thought they did.

Relax, Americans aren't used to seeing and responding to an actual oppressive regime nor have the capacity for supporting meaningful change. Plus the military structure is so well defined, there would be very little chance anyone would fragment or opt to join a "side" except for the active government. Most you would see is a bunch of useless resignations.

In true American fashion, everything you fear will just happen really half assed. If there is even a hint of a civil war, it'll be snuffed out by your favorite 3 lettered agency long before it begins.

Well at least the US will let other countries alone

Yeah no shit. Who thinks that?

The question is what the alternative would be. Look at history for the answer. The easy comparison would be Germany leading up to, during, and after World War 2, but that would be low-hanging fruit considering how very directly the US regime is trying to force other countries to join them. (Anschluss, anyone?) Look also at the countries where extremist regimes took over and didn't get forced out until years later and the damages they did to their country and the people living in it. Unfortunately too many examples there to name. The US regime and their stormtroopers will continue to harass, arrest, and outright kill people who have a legal right to live in the US simply over the color of their skin or otherwise until they are stopped. And they will most assuredly not stop by the power of fingerwagging and strongly stated words.

We're in a civil war right now. This is what it looks like.

But it can get a lot worse.

"You speak so lightly of war. War is a terrible thing!"

I agree with you but can it be prevented? And if so how?

It very much seems like a setup to try and agitate the left into their own Jan 6th.

If the Dems don't sweep midterms and get majority after the shitshow that's been this administration, they just might get it.

Then it'll be dismissed because of Jan 6th.

it will just be an insurgency situation.

you dont get battle lines until there's been a few years of mass killings on both sides, before Regime Loyalist and Opposition "states" or lines solidify.

The next "civil war" will just be a series of Luigi-like instances. My prediction is that the justice system will simply start failing to get grand jury indictments like they did with the ham sandwhich throwing incident.

and the only good that comes out of it will be Americans will finally have first hand experience of real war torn violence.

Hey, it might result in the dissolution of the US, which as a firm believer in "death to America" I'd welcome gladly. Anyway in case anyone thinks a peaceful resolution is possible, yeah no.

It's too late, it's already starting to happen. People are already having to dodge ice just while going to work, Charlie Kirk literal got sniped while at work.

It's going to get worse before it gets better.

I'm dead in a month as soon as any major part of our infrastructure/supply chain crumbles. yaaaay.

I do wonder if I'm on somebody's list.

It's going to be insurgency terrorism

Societal collapse, Balkanization.

Victory through disinformation and chaos.

What Putin wants to happen because if it does, he and Xi will have the biggest power vacuum they'll be occupying in history, either Pax Sinica or Pax Russica. There won't be a US to dictate how things do in the world, but instead is but replacing one hegemonic power with another, but more dystopian.