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Americans are sadly locked into the path of violence as the other path will force them to face their systemic racism, and corporate idolization which is clearly not going to happen.

It took Nicole Good to be face shot before people really started to react despite 4 other similar events with non white females and I am constantly shocked how many Americans defend corporations that are literally exploiting them. America is cooked unfortunately as like most humans, myself included, we tend to become blind with power.

Not American, so feel free to stop reading.

It's ridiculous to me how you yanks go from zero to a hundred like this. Either normality or civil war. Like there is no in between? You have an authoritarianism problem. So resist authoritarianism. What makes you think that the only way to resist is shooting people? Resistance is a spectrum, and you have barely started using democratic means to fight back (you just started electing democratic socialists), much less active procedural and institutional warfare (is Bernie demanding a vote for every procedural point requiring a vote? Are the Dems actually using any rat fucking tactic to make the state ungovernable? Are your local and state governments really resisting beyond making angry noises?). You have barely tried non violent resistance (not the same as peaceful!) but you're such a violent culture that you jump straight to military solutions. Wtf. Those come at the very end, if everything else has failed. Has it? Nowhere near. So this talk about civil war, is that really useful?

YSK: The average citizen doesn’t have much control over the cork in the bottle.

This administration is repeatedly and consistently provoking people. Randomly shooting people in the face, and talking about sending the military to Minnesota is going to cause things to boil over if the other people we elected don’t step in and force them to cool down.

Everybody know it not a game but st some point there is no othet options and fight oppresion

Conservatives really do think that any limitation of freedom imposed to their political opponents only affects them. How cute!

Most of the voices calling for v10l3nt r3v01ut10n in the states are Russian bots or MAGA provocateurs.

One thing you saw in places like Syria and the Balkans was a lot of revenge murders and groups that were essentially gangs terrorizing and enslaving towns.

I remember reading how people in the old Yugoslavia talked about how people they'd lived next to for generations suddenly turned on them. The same in Rwanda where groups were slaughtered en masse. People were packed into churches and the buildings set on fire, etc.

... Americans don't realize they're already in a civil war? Bro a city is occupied. Secret police roam freely. Tens of thousands disappeared.

We're in a civil war right now. This is what it looks like.

But it can get a lot worse.

I'm not really expecting a "civil war" for the many reasons stated by others.

I'm more expecting total societal collapse combined with extremely violent capitalist repression - largely due to the ongoing destruction of the planet. Basically a continuation of what's been happening for centuries.