Spinoff: How would a US civil war even work today?

[yseJ]

extrapolate riots to bigger scale.

many nations have coups or protests that forcefully remove the current regime, etc.

this isnt happening for a while though, something even like a small-scale civil war needs to have a lot of people not having great living conditions. lots of unemployment and middle class struggling.

 

[CourtesyFlush]

I was just thinking about this. The military would quash any mass conflict quickly. Unless there is some fundamental breakdown in government. Plus, both political parties are too corporatist to have some knucklehead civilians fukking up the the economy. Lmao imagine dying at the Battle of Walgreens or some goofy shyt.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

America would balkanize before a civil war imo

extrapolate riots to bigger scale.

many nations have coups or protests that forcefully remove the current regime, etc.

this isnt happening for a while though, something even like a small-scale civil war needs to have a lot of people not having great living conditions. lots of unemployment and middle class struggling.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

You can consider December 14th D-Day...

If there is any faithless electors fukkery to subvert the will of the people, I fully expect the military to step in and seize control of the government till January 20th...

On January 20th I expect the military to hand over control to the president-elect...

If things don't go as I described, full scale armed riots will breakout all across the country...

 

[yseJ]

America would balkanize before a civil war imo

yeah

 

[Micky Mikey]

People keep writing this (hyperbolic) statement in the election and various other anti-GOP/Trump convos about how a civil war could/would pop off due to XYZ. But even in letting my imagination wander, I don't see how this works.

• War is too tech driven these days and the military is under the power of the president - they'll mobilize and fall in line with the pres' call (whoever the president is) - the opposition doesn't stand a chance
• even if the military went against whoever was president, I'd feel like more of it would mobilize behind conservative lines
• then we get into civilian gun ownership where, i could be wrong, i feel red states and/or conservatives would be more heavily armed
• where do the battles take place
• lastly, i feel the only way the opposition stands a chance against the US military is by being aided by ally nations - who the hell would jump in this and what countries would align with whom

Take a look at this podcast OP. He goes in depth about how an actual civil war might go down.
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IMO I don't think we're at a point where we'd see a civil war in the traditional sense. However, I think we could see isolated terrorist attacks from white nationalist militias. And if this continues it could quickly spiral out of control and create vacuums of social chaos.

Another scenario would be Trump successfully staging a coup and mass civil disobedience taking place as a result. At that point we'd be in a full fascist takeover and there would be no limit to how hard the regime cracks down on protestors. And as we've seen in other countries this would quickly escalate things.

 

[analog]

How confident are we the military structure would stay in place? I'd imagine troops would be reluctant to gun down their own, especially if their views align with the civilians they're asked to oppose. These types of personal conflicts could potentially impact the entire chain of command which would worry me the most

 

[DEAD7]

America would balkanize before a civil war imo

Agreed.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

America would balkanize before a civil war imo

Real no fly zones, not just those imposed by Trick Trick

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

guerilla warfare and people targeted via party registration documentation online

but most are too lazy and fat so itll never happen

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

whole time Trick Trick is a decent name for a Warlord

Real no fly zones, not just those imposed by Trick Trick

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I’m wilding now, but all these southern rappers trapped in red states, how they gonna cross boarders to performs in places like NY, CA or IL

Unrelated, I was surprised Garth Brooks is a Biden supporter

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

Americans aren’t willing to die for their political views and their examples of being oppressed is having to wear face masks. If some civil war type fukkery popped off it would turn to Cacs, Asians and Latinos vs Black people within a few short days and nobody would give a fukk about the politics they thought they wanted to fight for.

 

[Starman]

A segment of Whites might be inclined to take up arms if it ever became clear they could no longer get their candidate elected.

If that were to happen, I think there could be guerilla warfare on rival politicians in a bid for. .. seperation?

I can't see any other race or group spear heading a similar effort.

 

[Spence]

Yeah plus there’s interracial couples/families everywhere so a race war wouldn’t really work well either