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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 104 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Doesn't feel like they're losing at the moment.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 20 points 1 month ago

It didn't in 1940 either. Didn't take them long after that, though.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

They always lose in the end

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

We haven't started shooting yet

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looking at how even WWII units were segregated, schools not getting integrated until the '60s, etc. I'm unfortunately not sure they really lost to begin with (which should not be allowed to pass again if there is a next time).

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 63 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Real talk, it's going to be like the troubles or the early days of Nazi Germany, not like people forming battle lines and shit. The only way the latter happens is if states secede; one viable scenario I've considered is California/Pacifica seceding and a subsequent shooting fight over water rights, because of how much water California gets from the Colorado River basin and other water sources outside its borders. But realistically, it's going to be shitty partisan on partisan on innocent bystander violence.

Best advice I've heard is to form close ties and mutual aid agreements with your neighbors and friends. A small network of people can be far, far, far more resilient in defending protecting themselves than individuals or families can.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best advice I’ve heard is to form close ties and mutual aid agreements with your neighbors and friends.

My neighbors are heavy GOP supporters. The single political sign I've ever put in my yard was to support the Pro Reproductive Freedom amendment ballot measure (pro choice amendment, which subsequently passed!). All of my neighbors had signs in their yard opposing it. I had a neighbor that lived a block away stop me while I was mowing my law asking me why I support a law that killed babies and turning kids trans. Nothing in the reproductive freedom amendment language has anything to do with anything trans.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

and turning kids trans.

........I'm so confused by his logic.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

That's because it's not logic

[–] Meltrax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

logic

Well, using that word is your first mistake.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best advice I've heard is to form close ties and mutual aid agreements with your neighbors and friends. A small network of people can be far, far, far more resilient in defending protecting themselves than individuals or families can.

I read an interview with someone from the war in Bosnia, and he talked about surviving the war. He said big families, in one house, they had an easier war. When shit gets real is when “friends” start to evaporate or turn their back, a lot more than you would think. The single people, or little families off on their own, they mostly didn’t make it.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's because that war was about national (racial) and religious identity. Families usually belonged together then.

In Usa it will be a little different. Race would be one aspect, too. But more so your wealth/social status. A struggle between classes. Rich against poor, and many shades in between.

And maybe young against old. Conservativism has gone too far in both (still so-called) parties. "Left" may not be progressive enough anymore.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It would never happen, no one in CA wants to leave the US and figure out how to maintain a national robust military. Also it's really unlikely any US armed forces would break off from the US in significant numbers, so if you want to enforce your new country, you need to navigate a potential war with a military that has bases, weapons development, troops, and equipment in the most strategically advantaged locations. You'd need to silently create a counter army, and have VERY risky attacks at nearly every base all the same time, and capture most of the equipment in the process. If you aren't force marching hundreds of US military people to a secure location, you aren't winning any war, and the only successful way to exit the US is to have a military strong enough to prevent the US from immediately seizing control of the state, or thinking twice about starting a war.

It's infinitly easier to use the existing system to progress the country in the direction you want to go over all.

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 62 points 1 month ago

Watch the news and be depressed about it I guess. Also, being glad not to live there.

[–] Tazerface@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I have been in this habit all my life and will continue to do so :)

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm gonna visit this guys house.......for like the next 60 years.

[–] Tazerface@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Head over and shoot fascists. What else is there?

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

This is the only answer if you love America

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Probably just continue to talk shit to Nazis until one of them kills me.

Y'know, a life well lived.

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[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Starve? Die from lack of medicine/doctors? Get killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

So like, every day that ends in "y" in the US?

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Focus on hit and run, and harassment tactics. Spec into speed and endurance, and use mostly Void Rays, hopefully we can wrap it up in mid game with a decent economy and a mid level apm.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago

Probably get shot by some Y'all Qaeda cosplayer for having a mixed race spouse. Whether this happens before or after my brother gets taken out for being gay is up for debate. I hope my sister is spared because her meathead baby daddy is a right wing useful idiot, but she's an unmarried bisexual mother and that doesn't pass the purity test, no sir.

I kinda feel bad for my mom since she was largely apolitical until a black man had the audacity to get elected president, but there's nothing I can do to stop the parade of leopards once they go face-hunting. Doubly so if I'm dead.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What if there is a nuclear war just as an asteroid hits the earth while the supervolcano erupts during the civil war?

[–] Toes@ani.social 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Modern anime titles are getting wild

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[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As a Canadian: stay the heck away the border because who knows if they're gonna launch a missile at Niagara Falls, NY and hit Niagara Falls, ON?

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hope it's like the first one and nothing happens in California.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bad news for you: California is the focal point of many of their current conflicts.

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[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Back in the day I was a soldier who could hit a target pretty well. But I'm 50 now and my back barely works for standing up, let alone fighting.

I'm going to be a meat sandbag for people to fight behind.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

My too, brother. But I can still hit those targets, and I have rifles better suited for sniping, now, and better for getting through body armor. As long as I take out more than once of them before they get me, it's a win.

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[–] norimee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Take the US example and close all EU borders to american refugees. If you still try, we unfortunately have to put you into detention centers.

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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Quite literally move to Canada, I'm a dual citizen.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not talk about what I'd do if a fascist government were to start looking for people like me.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Watch it unfold on TV News, I expect. And then think about it less and less as it begins just another fucked-up thing happening in the world.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hunker down and see if the neighbors attack. It’s 50/50 around here. I don’t think my neighbors will attack me but who knows! I’ve got enough guns and ammo to defend myself if it’s not a super heavy attack. Idk, in a civil war, does everyone just start fighting? I’d probably be more careful going to the store…

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’d probably be more careful going to the store…

Robert Evans did a podcast on what it might look like to have a civil war happening here. If I remember correctly it wasn't so much that neighbors would randomly attack each other, but the travel was definitely different with lots of checkpoints and stuff like that.

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[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

We have a bug out spot in a very remote area near the border. It’s where we plan on retiring anyway. Stay the hell out of the way of the war I suppose.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm getting older, have few weapons and only paintball experience. So I'm of no use in combat. I'm fairly certain foreign powers would get involved, and I'd be curious to see what they do. Getting accurate news and info is difficult right now. I imagine it would be near impossible during a 2nd civil war.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Third. The war of independence was a civil war too.

[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'd probably get taken out pretty quickly tbh

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Hopefully not fuck things up for my comrades

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

Go hang out with my well armed friend on a boat somewhere in the Caribbean.

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