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Expert Who Ran Simulations on 'How Civil Wars Start' Warns Minnesota Is Exactly What It Looks Like
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Whether a Civil War starts now or later...it isn't an if anymore, it's a when and I think we need to accept this and prepare / organize accordingly.
Please be after the steam frame is out.
+1 for the lulz
But how do you play when the electricity is out lol.
Are you rich enough to have an apocalypse bunker or something?
I have a 60w solar panel <3.
Can't do a thing from Europe buddy. That not like I am Macron or any people with any power.
Boycott is already in progress. (Need a steam frame before going full boycott)
About a hundred years.
I'm sorry, but I know a little history and politics. We're about a century from an actual internal civil war because a LOT of things would need to fall into place and be normalized before we had two opposing armies actually going at it on a large scale. I don't care what grifters trying to sell substack subs say, words have meaning and we're nowhere close to an actual "civil war" because that term has a LOT of meaning behind it, and a LOT of consequence.
Right now we have civil unrest, it could turn into armed unrest, it could turn into destabilization or an insurrection or coup at the most in the current state, but for there to be a civil war proper, we would need a coalition of states raising their own military and openly going against federal mandate and we're so far from that happening in this current environment that it's pure fantasy.
I'm not saying it can't happen, only that it's much further away than the headlines are making it out, because they know that a lot of people really, deeply want some kind of populist justice, so it sells clicks and views.
If we want to fix this, we need to lean in a LOT harder on community and organization. It's not fun, but I promise a real civil war would be even worse and there wouldn't be a winner.