State Senator Mike Gaskill's remark came just before a vote failed to approve a Trump-backed redistricting plan for Indiana.

What’s the difference between a civil war and a revolution to overthrow the rich?

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
    7·
    40 minutes ago

    Yeah yeah, okay. I’ve heard the civil war shit about as much times I’ve heard “WE ARE STARTING A REVOLUTION!”.

    Both haven’t started in any earnest and honest fashion because both sides are too comfortable in their armchairs. It’s just internet shit-flinging for the most of it.

  • athairmor@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 hours ago

    “I will submit to you that the Second US Civil War has already started. They’re just using surrogates,” the Republican lawmaker said. The Indiana state senator added, “I submit to you that that’s accurate.”

    Guy sure likes to submit to whoever’s listening.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 hours ago

    How would a civil war be fought in the US in 2025? Where would the battle lines be drawn? It seems like if any skirmishes were to break out anywhere, the police and the military would come in and reestablish order very quickly. Maybe if there was fighting within the military itself, but then whichever side controlled the most strategically important military bases would win quickly and easily. I just don’t see it happening.

    I could see some kind of guerilla action, however. I could see assassinations, shootings and bombings, kind of like what happened in Northern Ireland in the 90s. Maybe cyber attacks as well.

    • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 hours ago

      That type of diffuse, guerilla warfare is how modern civil wars generally go.

      The first several episodes of It Could Happen Here are revealing on this.

  • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    7 hours ago

    And yet, if someone were to shoot him as an enemy combatant, they’d be prosecuted for murder. Curious.

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    61·
    5 hours ago

    The notion of a second U.S. civil war has been mentioned a few times in recent history, by those on both sides of the aisle

    fucking christ

  • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
    39·
    10 hours ago

    These chucklefucks have been screeching about civil war since Obama was elected.

    And these jabronis will be the first to fold like cheap lawn chairs when they figure out that when a civil war starts in earnest, it very quickly strips them of all the comforts they feel accustomed and entitled to.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    341·
    11 hours ago

    Ya know? If we had a way to have clear distinct war lines, I’d absolutely join a civil war. You’re telling me these guys want to challenge us to a fight till the death? Ok.

    The way I see it, either I’m fighting for a better tomorrow, or I’m dead and don’t need to suffer through maga’s amerikkka.

    I’m good with either result.

  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
    41·
    11 hours ago

    It’s a civil war to them since they think they are party of the same club as the rich, and the other half is just racist which again is also a civil war for them.

    Loser mentality is all maga and Republicans have.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      The Vietnamese had an advanced military, supplied by the Soviet Union, and hardened by a long conflict with French colonisers before the United States got involved. Your racism is showing.

  • santa@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Anything to keep my guns in merica.

    No war. If anything you all started it and never want it to end.

    Imagine peace.