I’ve seen alot of calls for violence in America. Whether it be directed at the president or Federal officers, many people are advocating for an escalation in response to the current situation.
And believe me, I do understand. what I see happening in America is horrifying. But all I am imploring is to really think about what your asking for. Because you can’t put the genie in the bottle once you’ve left it out.
If you’re really gung-ho about it, go and ask a Veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan about it and see what they think. If anyone will know about it they will.
I am going to link a YouTube Playlist. Its the Associated Press Archives of the Bosnian-Serbian war. Because THAT is what will happen if wide scale violence breaks out. Except what will happen in America will be a hundred times worse.
The Bosnian war was pretty much broken up along ethnic lines. “Well it’s going to be Conservative VS. Liberal” you say. Except it won’t be. It will be anyone having a grudge against someone going after them.
ALOT of personal animosity will be taken out in the first few weeks I feel.
And I think the Seige of Sarajavo will be writ large in American cities across the country. Imagine having to dodge sniper fire on your way to get to your job at Wendy’s.
Because that’s the other thing no one is thinking about. You are still going to have to make a living while this is all going to be happening. And the cost of everything will skyrocket. Shipping will probably have to be escorted from place to place because people will be stealing or even blockading locations because they’re “damn dirty libs” or “Fascist Conservatives” Fresh produce will become a thing of the past.
Canada and Mexico will close their borders due to all the refugee’s trying to cross. so if you thinking of doing it, do it the moment everything pops off because otherwise you won’t get in.
Basically Civil war is going to the worst thing to happen in America in a long time. and the only good that comes out of it will be Americans will finally have first hand experience of real war torn violence. And maybe that will hopefully last for another two hundred years or so.
If America even survives the outcome that is.
So everyone will be killing everyone, but you still think people are going to go to their jobs to pay bills?
If a civil war happens, no one is going to work. Anyone that does will get gunned down.
If anything pops off, my first priority is protecting my family, which means staying home and barricading and waiting a few days before leaving to do recon.
From there either we’ll know if police, national guard, and/or the military will be involved. What states are doing what, and you’ll have local families/communities forming.
Money won’t be a thing, no one is going to work.
Which is why a civil war won’t happen, it’ll crash the economy globally and the 1% can’t have that, so all of this is moot.
Not everyone’s gonna start killing everyone. People will still go to work, money will still be a thing. Barricading your home will be pointless - this isn’t a zombie apocalypse we’re talking about.
It’ll look more like terrorism than actual war. Assassinations, bombings, and mass shootings driven by politics will get way more common, but for most people, life will more or less stay the same.
Croatia was at war for 4 years, my dad still worked, my aunt worked in school, we went to school, we had refugees from the war zone and Bosnia. Croatia is tiny and the war was contained to 1/3 of the country. Where the combat is you have nothing, 20 km away people still do normal things. Even in Ukraine things function “normally” outside the combat zone. In US it might be a different game. The country is enormous and it’s not divided by ethnicities, the fight is about gaining power, not land. It will go more like a coup thing. Couple of weeks while things go crazy and waiting which way the army will turn. Than it will be over.
People are still going to work in Ukraine, they are still paying bill and still need money for that.
Ukraine isn’t a civil war.
And OP is describing the purge one minute and then a normal Monday morning the next.
Again, no one in the US would be going to work if it was going purge style once the shit hits the fan. I have everyone of all walks of life around me(Dems, conservatives, white people, Mexicans, Asians, etc). Someone, somewhere, will be crazy enough to start driving around in giant pickup trucks and start shooting anyone that is “too brown”.
I’m not risking that happening to me or my family. I will force everyone to be home for a week before things calm down.
We’ve already had domestic terrorists hit our power grids and Jan 6th happened. You don’t think once a “civil war” happens things aren’t going to get worse immediately?
“But everyone has bills to pay” cool, and there are more guns than people in the US, something Ukraine didn’t have to deal with because they’re a sane country.
Peaky easy obvious counterexamples!
You have a idea of war informed by Hollywood and WW2 documentaries, war is both more normal and more horrifying than you think.
I’ve heard someone say that war is actually mostly really boring with minutes of intense action sprinkled here and there.
I feel like Donald would mysteriously hang himself and Vance would be full appeasement mode real fast.
That said, we also thought Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine after the 2014 (iirc) treaty and well…
It’ll really hurt, but we’ll get by.
It’s a better option for us than the US turning on us.
The world economy collapsed because Americans stopped paying their mortgages.
So yeah, I’m sure nothing will come from domestic terrorists bombing corporate headquarters looking for children in dungeons and tens of millions of Americans dying.
At least our land will be cheap for countries to buy later on
“Crash the economy™” means the global financial markets, especially stocks.
So yeah, production will go on, but when your imperialist daddy commits suicide (since this is what’s described, not a mere power grab internal war) there are consequences to the abrupt end of the system, eg savings wiped out, large scale logistics & shipping, consumer preference change, etc.
first thing would probably thinking of a way to flee to canada or mexico as “illegal alien”, or lucky enough migrating to another country. top scientists, doctors have the option of fleeing more easily through other means, they usually go first.