Current Events > So many people are worried about civil war.

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I spoke with my grandmother today, even she brought it up. She wasnt kidding, she was seriously afraid about it. She asked if I'd take her to vote, because she said "There will be troublemakers" at the polling stations. Shes a student of history, she said four years ago Trump scared her a little bit. Now, he scares her a lot. Scares me too.

(edited studend to student)

That's some bad karma

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Bad_Mojo posted...

That's some bad karma

*stare*

You... Ive been waiting for you.

What do we fight now, or do we team up?

This is my block, kid

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oof. So then we fight.

Karma is a cooler word than Mojo ):< how do you like that buddy

Bad Mojo Jojo > Bad Mojo

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I wasn't really worried about it until our pandemic response and now the evictions. That's so much free time and anger that's going to get pointed somewhere, and a lot of people are all too eager to point it at their fellow countrymen.

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Its as I thought. Mojo lacks the courage to face me.

):<

won't
happen

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In the next month we're looking at:

The nation's biggest housing crash, close to 200k deaths from Covid, a fall out from the hurricane(s), on going riots, and we're all basically locked in here without escape. Shit isnt going to be pretty.

Might not be a civil war, but close enough that I started training my dog to sniff out ammo just in case.

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Its gone too far. Im making it its own topic.

edit: when i get off work

So many people? No offense but I dont think your grandma qualifies as so many people.

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I've been vocal about resisting the doomer mentality for a couple months now. The Trumpers want you to feel powerless and to give up - every non-Trumper who doesn't vote is another win for the Republican party, because you know they're going to be out in force to vote King Shithead back into office. Make everyone else feel like the far right victory is inevitable, and less people will turn up to vote - especially to hostile conditions.

It's important to persevere despite the hardship going on, but frankly I think I've hit a breaking point with the last week of shit. I think this is what the right wanted Charlottesville to be - a show of solidarity and power that cements them as the new norm, where enough people outside of their zeitgeist will support them because on a surface level they support general right-wing subjects that the average layperson believe in.

Stuff like the qanon assholes making pedophilia a hot button issue - no-one likes pedophilia, we all agree that pedophiles are bad and should be weeded out and ostracized, but they're conflating pedos and their defenders with people who support masks and believe in enforcing social distancing rules. Your average layperson hears "we want to stop child sex trafficking in the United States", but a radicalised dipshit hears "enforcing mask usage makes children harder to identify and makes it easier to kidnap them, it's enabling child kidnapping and we need to stand up to these disingenuous democrats who want to steal and rape our children".

We're at a point where the radical right is taking control, and there are enough people to passionately defend it and argue away the points against it. You already had right-wing militia types with support from the police, but you now have enough onlookers who are willing to defend the alt-right's narrative en masse. I honestly think that the alt-right control the conversation now.

I feel like I have to accept that America is lost to fascism, and I have to focus my efforts on somewhere I might be able to make a difference. I need to focus on where I live, so the same right-wing dickheads don't take power in the same way America's alt-right did. I need to fight the One Nation party, I need to fight Clive Palmer, and I need to fight the Liberal party with an emphasis on Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton. These groups and people pose the biggest threat to my country's integrity, and if they succeed Australia will become a mini-America with lax gun laws, even more tax breaks and less oversight for corporations and the same weakening of civil liberties that America's far right has brought into effect.

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MrMallard posted...

I've been vocal about resisting the doomer mentality for a couple months now. The Trumpers want you to feel powerless and to give up - every non-Trumper who doesn't vote is another win for the Republican party, because you know they're going to be out in force to vote King Shithead back into office. Make everyone else feel like the far right victory is inevitable, and less people will turn up to vote - especially to hostile conditions.

It's important to persevere despite the hardship going on, but frankly I think I've hit a breaking point with the last week of shit. I think this is what the right wanted Charlottesville to be - a show of solidarity and power that cements them as the new norm, where enough people outside of their zeitgeist will support them because on a surface level they support general right-wing subjects that the average layperson believe in.

Stuff like the qanon assholes making pedophilia a hot button issue - no-one likes pedophilia, we all agree that pedophiles are bad and should be weeded out and ostracized, but they're conflating pedos and their defenders with people who support masks and believe in enforcing social distancing rules. Your average layperson hears "we want to stop child sex trafficking in the United States", but a radicalised dipshit hears "enforcing mask usage makes children harder to identify and makes it easier to kidnap them, it's enabling child kidnapping and we need to stand up to these disingenuous democrats who want to steal and rape our children".

We're at a point where the radical right is taking control, and there are enough people to passionately defend it and argue away the points against it. You already had right-wing militia types with support from the police, but you now have enough onlookers who are willing to defend the alt-right's narrative en masse. I honestly think that the alt-right control the conversation now.

I feel like I have to accept that America is lost to fascism, and I have to focus my efforts on somewhere I might be able to make a difference. I need to focus on where I live, so the same right-wing dickheads don't take power in the same way America's alt-right did. I need to fight the One Nation party, I need to fight Clive Palmer, and I need to fight the Liberal party with an emphasis on Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton. These groups and people pose the biggest threat to my country's integrity, and if they succeed Australia will become a mini-America with lax gun laws, even more tax breaks and less oversight for corporations and the same weakening of civil liberties that America's far right has brought into effect.

Q people aren't that widespread.

What we do have is the common citizens getting sick of riots and starting to act on it.

But I guess the silent majority is far/alt right to you.

Yeah, like the Silent Majority who voted Trump in, despite the fact that he lost by 1.5 million votes and scraped by with the Electoral College. Fuck off.

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MrMallard posted...

Yeah, like the Silent Majority who voted Trump in, despite the fact that he lost by 1.5 million votes and scraped by with the Electoral College. Fuck off.

I'm not talking about 4 years ago, I'm talking about the events of 2020 that have pushed people to the other side.

"The Silent Majority" is a rhetorical device that the right uses to imply that radical concepts are actually widely accepted by the public at large, and that a wider "PC/self-censorship culture" makes them afraid to express it. It emboldened people to champion these points as a form of truth being oppressed by a nebulous authority that wants to take away their freedom.

It's the same shitty political plot now as it was in 2016.

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MrMallard posted...

"The Silent Majority" is a rhetorical device that the right uses to imply that radical concepts are actually widely accepted by the public at large, and that a wider "PC/self-censorship culture" makes them afraid to express it. It emboldened people to champion these points as a form of truth being oppressed by a nebulous authority that wants to take away their freedom.

It's the same shitty political plot now as it was in 2016.

Except there wasn't mass rioting in 2016 where cities were being burnt to the ground and people being openly attacked and harassed.