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  • Robert Evan’s has a great podcast about what a civil war might look like that he wrote before trump even got elected the first time I think. And boy does it hold up still.

    Things he says like “the crumbles”

    And how he talks about “ but today… you’ve got shit to do” talking about things just crumbling around you but you still got to go to the grocery store before the line forms. Or how “you’re alarmed you recognize how far away a mortar hit from now, and you know that one wasn’t a threat, then the second one hits to kill the survivors.

    It’s not all read in the second person only intro but the rests goes on about how other countries experience civil wars and compares it .

    Anyway it’s really good and quite terrifying.





  • The definition you are talking about can’t happen anymore.

    You can’t have a states vs states civil because it’s house vs house now. This is the modern world it isn’t like the past. This isn’t “farms in the south have slaves so we fight the south.”

    It’ll be more “I always hated Paul from next doors view on immigration and now the day we go kill him” except every house. Nationwide.

    So I get what your saying but I feel it’s you who should reconsider definitions

    Webster is my favorite

    Pedantic: disapproving relating to, or being a pendant (as in being overly concerned with minor details) overly scholarly.

    Edit I should add I doo agree with you this is currently not that yet, but it won’t look like what you are describing either

    It doesn’t mean your stupid it means the detail your hung up on is minor one and it’s not in the definition of a civil war: a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country. It says nothing about regions or travel. It brother fighting brother. That’s a civil war.

    I should add that I do agree with you this is currently not a civil war. It’s state employees vs citizens. But if a civil war comes it won’t be California marching into Texas. People will be attacking their neighbors.




  • I know this is small potatoes compared to everything going on with “WWIII: the Nazis return” but it irks me to no end how on top of trump saying he’s taking Canada and Greenland he’s also says “51st state”

    So Canada in its entirety will be 1 state? And I assume all of Greenland will be a 52 state?

    Canada is a diverse place with regions and cultures… but lump them all into a single state. Sure. How many electoral college votes does Canada get?

    I don’t know much about Greenland but I’m sure the same applies to them.

    How is that flag going to look? Actually that last one’s a stupid question it’ll just be trumps face.






  • Every time I see a “survey crew ahead” sign on road I have this mental image of driving with me head out the window yelling “ one a scale from one to ten: how acomadating do you feel your employer is with scheduling request- damnit I passed them… how am I supposed to do this going 60?!”

    Second off topic when I see the sign with a construction worker with a shovel I think “lazy protesters ahead. You got to hold the sign up!”