cmbabul

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[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 hours ago

Sounds more like performance art/prank in the form of a video game, like something Andy Kauffman and Banksy would create together, but I’m still here for it

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

Serious question, best way to stop paying income taxes?

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think that if there are historians left to analyze this in 30 years they’ll probably drop the start line around the assassination of Charlie Kirk. There definitely are multiple different factions even within the conservative movement they haven’t completely turned on one another, the left is similarly at odds with itself.

When we see the White House calling on generals to be prepared to invade American cities with the military, judge’s houses are being burned down after giving verdicts disliked for political inconvenience, Chicago, Portland, LA, DC are all seeing extreme escalations in state sanctioned violence, states sending their national guard to other states to quell chaos that isn’t there, and mass shootings nearly everyday, sometimes several. To me that’s civil war that’s started heating up.

But if you’d rather call what were currently seeing and experiencing something like The Troubles in Ireland and wait until the conflict is even more overt feel free.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

Add it to the list of shit we desperately need yesterday

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Which is why all the factions are trying to get their agenda advanced as quickly as possible before he croaks. The techno-feudalist side had the advantage with their boy JD poised to take over but removing him is much more politcally viable for the Christian nationalists in congress

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

That’s not how civil wars work anymore, it’ll be akin to a Balkanization where there are multiple different factions, upstart states, militias and insurgencies. The second will be nothing like the first. The Syrian civil war is a decent smaller scale modern example

Edit: if you’d like a good idea of what it will look like I HIGHLY recommend the fist season of the excellent podcast It Could Happen Here by Robert Evans. It’s from 2019 but wildly prescient

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is very much a situation where they sure as shit ain’t our allies but if ICE wants to make an enemy of the police I’m not gonna stop that mistake

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 114 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (38 children)

We’re already in the first throes of the Second American Civil War, we just haven’t started calling it that yet

Edit: throws to throes because I’m a dumb southern hillbilly

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 day ago

He’s had a long week alright, just wants to have a drink and unwind

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 days ago
[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

No i meant superpowers arose as a natural mutation and not the result of a chemical compound. Not ideologically

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