• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    You’re already in it.

    And because nobody has fought back, they can civil war easier, until one day, they come for you, and nobody is left, because nobody wanted to break the facade of their tidy peaceful american dream.

    • galaxy_nova@lemmy.world
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      Dude I keep seeing all of you people bloviating this nonsense. It’s very easy to just tell people “oh yeah just go kill people and risk your life.” And then everyone applauds and upvotes. It’s not about “living in delusion” it’s about how genuinely difficult it is to tell people to just go to war. It’s easy to just armchair this and I keep seeing it all over Lemmy but dude I haven’t even made it a quarter of my life yet, and most of my true cognizant semi adult life has been absolute dogshit. And now suddenly people who don’t live here are telling me to just go die. That’s scary as hell man. I wish people would think before they just type this shit everywhere.

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        23 hours ago

        seriously, especially when…

        1. controlled, precise violence is dramatically more effective than wanton violence

        and…

        1. the overwhelming majority of murders go unsolved (most “solved” murders are via confession, because they’re crimes of passion). it really isnt that hard to pull off if you put even the barest amount of thought into it

        anyone who wants to play rambo or whatever can just start making a list and working their way down it, just remember…politicians are replacable, it’s the $ behind the Man you want to go after.

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          This is a dangerous misunderstanding of statistics. Most murders go unsolved because the victims aren’t considered important by society. The police barely bother to investigate. Go after the bigwigs and they will find you. Look at Mangione. And he was pretty good at covering his tracks compared to most murderers.

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      The facade is broken. The goal of the Trump administration is to tear down the last scraps of democracy standing in their way. He’s escalating and we are so close to an all out war, but there’s also a reason this entire thing has been dragged out for as long as it has. There’s a reason he hasn’t just sent the military and Palantir drones into cities (yet). He needs at least some corporate support to survive and corporations still need people to continue to buy their shit. This is literally why he is starting a war in Venezuela, and taking over the Venezuelan state run oil company that until now was collecting 61% of Chevron’s profits.

      He has tanked the economy, and he is hemorrhaging support like he slashed his own wrists in a warm bathtub. For a civil war to break out, one “side” of the country turning on the other is kind of a necessity. Right now, there is no “side” for Americans to really fight. There’s just Trump and his illiterate group of SS soldiers who are losing more and more support from his base by the day. Encouraging people to help him out by officially kicking off the “civil war” for him and attacking the fucking military police, is giving him exactly what he wants, and is about as shitty and transparent as encouraging somebody to go ahead and leave their finger prints on the gun you know will be used to frame them.