The problem everyone seems to be forgetting is that there a millions of far right lunatics in this country, armed to the teeth, that are ready to “defend American from a liberal takeover” or some stupid shit like that. The gravy seals are chomping at the bit to shoot their countrymen to defend Trump, and they have been programmed to fear an imaginary boogeyman in the left. Civil war is only a matter of time, and it will get bloody. Hell, there are people in my town gloating how prepared they are to repel the liberal invasion. We are utterly fucked and there is no putting the genie back in the bottle. Arm yourself and be prepared.
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artificialfish@programming.dev 2 weeks agoArmed resistance, as it always has, can only actually come from the military. They are bound by oath to constitutional defense. So… maybe?
But IRL, if you look at history, civil unrest does not stop these things. They are stopped ultimately by wars with foreign militaries. All successful revolutions have monied and powerful interests backing them. You and I aren’t doing anything. That’s just how the game of history is played. I opt out. I’d rather live in the woods than fight in a civil war.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was there with my fellow veterans watching the capitol get stormed (on live stream). At the time the only thing we thought that could stop it, should it go any further, was the joint chiefs.
You make the decisions you feel like you need to live with.
artificialfish@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
No war ever fought was fought for or benefited the working class. It was always to benefit someone else. Even when the socialists did it, they did it as a vanguard party, and that vanguard ultimately did it to benefit themselves. Sometimes they have the ancillary benefit of redeeming some horror in our past, like slavery, but people are naive if they think the north went to war with the south to eliminate slavery, or that the Americans won against the British without French help, who mostly had victory against the British on their mind, not American independence.
Instead, society changes when material conditions change. It rarely changes through ideologically motivated struggle. It changes overnight because someone invented the lightbulb, discovered a new continent, or a new farming technique, etc. Entire empires have fallen practically overnight because of the switch from peasantry to steam powered industry. Nothing can prevent it, and barely a drop of blood need be spilt, because it’s inevitable.