Made me realize motivation for MANY who look forward to a civil war isn’t some political or religious dogma. It’s that they want to play out their action movie fantasies and kill people.
Not fight an opposing army of soldiers in the battlefield, but pick off people just because they now can. Civil war is a great cover for finally being able to murder that irritating “woke” neighbor, wrapped in all the self-righteousness you could ask for.
“Ukraine could easily pass for cities, suburbs, and farm fields in America and the accompanying destruction, therefore, offers a preview of what we can expect if a civil war occurs here”
Not often I disagree with you Banter guys but I do here, on the very unlikely chance an actual civil war happens in America, it won’t be modern army’s with missiles and artillery, let alone F-16s facing off in pitched battles, it will look like Northern Ireland during the Troubles
That’s plenty bad enough and yes McGuiness did manage to use homemade bombs to make parts of Derry look like Dresden, but it will not be like Mariupol, it will be like Belfast
My family emigrated from England to Australia when i was 10 in 88, I don’t have that many vivid memories of England... staring at a wall while we queued outside the stadium and hearing the cheer for the only goal of a 1-0 Stoke game is one, playing football in the backyard after the Maradonna hand of god goal is another
But one huge one was the people who used to stand outside McDonalds in Hanley handing out how to survive a nuclear war leaflets followed by getting to Australia and every suburb having these ‘Croydon is a nuclear free town’ ‘Mooroolbark is a nuclear free area’ road signs is another
People who didn’t live through it forget how terrified ppl were back then that a nuclear strike was a real possibility
“That last part is important to emphasize: when people believe in the uncompromising nature of their cause, however insane, they will never concede for fear of betraying their political and religious dogma...”
No kidding. Much of the clamoring for a new civil war is because, even after 160 years, so many still want to fight the last one.
0:57 in the trailer: sniper on the roof
Made me realize motivation for MANY who look forward to a civil war isn’t some political or religious dogma. It’s that they want to play out their action movie fantasies and kill people.
Not fight an opposing army of soldiers in the battlefield, but pick off people just because they now can. Civil war is a great cover for finally being able to murder that irritating “woke” neighbor, wrapped in all the self-righteousness you could ask for.
“Ukraine could easily pass for cities, suburbs, and farm fields in America and the accompanying destruction, therefore, offers a preview of what we can expect if a civil war occurs here”
Not often I disagree with you Banter guys but I do here, on the very unlikely chance an actual civil war happens in America, it won’t be modern army’s with missiles and artillery, let alone F-16s facing off in pitched battles, it will look like Northern Ireland during the Troubles
That’s plenty bad enough and yes McGuiness did manage to use homemade bombs to make parts of Derry look like Dresden, but it will not be like Mariupol, it will be like Belfast
My family emigrated from England to Australia when i was 10 in 88, I don’t have that many vivid memories of England... staring at a wall while we queued outside the stadium and hearing the cheer for the only goal of a 1-0 Stoke game is one, playing football in the backyard after the Maradonna hand of god goal is another
But one huge one was the people who used to stand outside McDonalds in Hanley handing out how to survive a nuclear war leaflets followed by getting to Australia and every suburb having these ‘Croydon is a nuclear free town’ ‘Mooroolbark is a nuclear free area’ road signs is another
People who didn’t live through it forget how terrified ppl were back then that a nuclear strike was a real possibility
“That last part is important to emphasize: when people believe in the uncompromising nature of their cause, however insane, they will never concede for fear of betraying their political and religious dogma...”
No kidding. Much of the clamoring for a new civil war is because, even after 160 years, so many still want to fight the last one.
Was interested and when it got to Texas and California being on the same side I said you get one suspension of disbelief not twenty.