how long until the next US civil war?

more or less even split between optimism and pessimism i guess

> 100 years 3

who are these three nostradami

a european buddy was telling me how the west (usa/europe) has had peace for a long time now and that it is time for war (he doesn't think the usa has been in actual "war wars" since vietnam apparently)

and he seems to have this backward idea that war will occur the same way it did in the 1900s, like country A attacks country B with tanks, missiles, etc

ya, no

war will come about in new and unique ways, ways that will force us to reconsider the meaning of war and that are specific to our new brave world, a world that heavily relies on technology and psychology

if you don't think mass shootings is a form of war, may the lord have mercy on you

if you don't think the apps on our little handheld devices isn't some type of mind control, bless your innocent heart

if you don't think overcrowded major cities and high cost of living is just going to get worse, i'll be waving goodbye when you move to some small town inland

if you don't think there will be fewer jobs, and robots will take lower-skilled and easy-to-automate jobs, good luck to your future career

if you don't think the high cost of education, and the lack of trades and skilled workers is just out of pure laziness, get your head out of your latte

if you don't think the opioid crisis is being pushed by big pharma and the gov't to kill off the weakest people, hi superman

stop and think about it for a second

we *are* at war

wait jk lol

~ Bob Marley

https://www.caprishop.com/images/poster_61x92cm_bob_marley_smoke_big.jpg

i voted for 20-50. but a vote for >100 years makes much more sense than "so not gonna happen". do the "so not gonna happen" voters think the united states will remain a strife-free country until the end of the world, or do they think that the country will at some point be absorbed by another country or bloc without any internal conflict over the matter? in the long term a civil war happening sometime between 100 years from now and infinity seems much more likely than none, ever.

history has not ended

if you don't think the opioid crisis is being pushed by big pharma and the gov't to kill off the weakest people, hi superman

stop and think about it for a second

we *are* at war

wait jk lol

― F# A# (∞)

Keep going bro, I'm a student right now

I miss my childhood, when history looked like it was over for a decade or so

Ugh yeah and it “didn’t matter” if bush won because he wuz a ceo president

if you don't think the apps on our little handheld devices isn't some type of mind control, bless your innocent heart

what does this have to do with war

ever heard of the war on your mind?

or clash of clans? download now

ever heard of the war on your mind?

― flappy bird

swamp dogg, right? good jam

"if you don't think the opioid crisis is being pushed by big pharma and the gov't to kill off the weakest people, hi superman"

most of your post is arguable/defensible as actions that have a strong, oft-unacknowledged political component, but this is some flat-out infowars bullshit here, and spouting it undermines the truths you have already spoken

The work has rather turned here chaps

Worm ffs

insert the old joke about the guy with a flat tire at the mental asylum here

we jammin

guys it's like b movies u can't just TRY to make a trenchant post

"mean world syndrome"
has me reaching for a beer, not a bayonet.
there's a well fed person next to me
with exceptionally white teeth
masturbating to their own righteous indignation

I miss my childhood, when history looked like it was over for a decade or so

― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, March 7, 2018 6:01 AM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i kinda miss being mad at progress happening too slowly

I hope it's a civil war, a rude war is terrible.

Bumping for the inevitable next week.

the inevitable rehashing of these fears? there's a very high likelihood of manufactured chaos, but armed conflict on a mass scale is way down my list of worries for next week.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n10/james-meek/what-are-you-willing-to-do

“What are you willing to do? On the case for civil war”

(Not to encourage piracy but in the absence of other options, Reader view is one way to take a look over the paywall.)

One of the strange things about the reaction to the invasion of the Capitol was how few of those dismayed by it speculated that they might one day long for just such an assault to succeed. Might a different mob storm into Congress to save democracy, rather than attack it? If an autocrat who has stolen an election is about to have his trashing of American democracy hallowed by Congress, all other recourse having failed, shouldn’t Democrats – or democrats, at least – take direct action? Liberal opinion in North America and Western Europe has tended to be gung-ho about pro-democracy protesters storming ruling institutions in other countries, notably Ukraine in 2014. But it’s one thing to imagine, as Walter encourages her readers to do, the gradual spread of white supremacist, anti-government terrorism across America against a democratic framework, until one day the progressive left, and the people of colour she suggests are likely to be targets of violence, arm and organise for self-protection. It’s another to wake up one morning and find that without any bloodshed or violence, without any seeming change in the smooth running of traffic signals and ATMs and supermarkets, without, even, an immediate wave of arrests or a clampdown on free speech, your country is run by somebody who took power illegally. Something must be done! But what, apart from venting on social media? And by whom? Me? In Ukraine, students and the liberal middle class found fighting allies among football ultras, small farmers and extreme nationalists. Such an alliance would be hard to pull together in the Euro-American world. Describing liberal protests against government corruption and malfeasance in Bulgaria in 2013, Ivan Krastev spoke of ‘the frustration of the empowered’ and an urban middle class that ‘risks remaining politically isolated, incapable of reaching out to other social groups’.