• CrazyEddie041@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Remember when people were taking pot shots at power stations a couple years ago? We’ll probably have more stupid shit like that.

      • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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        For your local power utility in Rural America, that’s just your average Wednesday. Somebody gets mad about something and shoots out a couple transformers or yard lights. I’ve even seen someone actually hit and sever the line once, which is actually pretty impressive considering how small it is. Morons with guns.

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          We had a guy throw spoiled meat all over the breakers one time. He was mad at us that the power went out and his food in his freezer all defrosted and went bad. He has a substation right behind his house, so he went to town. Real cool dude.

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      10 months ago

      The die-hard Trump supporters are too few in number to do anything

      That’s not how civil war happens. What would happen is that elections results would be put in question (for example some states would challenge the results and there would be disagreement among legal experts as to what to do next), both candidates would start issuing orders and different parts of the military would start obeying different candidates. You weren’t that far away from this last time. Fortunately for you the military chain of command wasn’t compromised but the government was absolutely ready to abandon the democratic process and split. All that was needed was for Pence to commit to the plan.

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        10 months ago

        Civil wars can happen in a lot of different ways, it’s any set of circumstances that leads large swaths of a country to fight other large swaths of it.

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      10 months ago

      …And by then, it’d be too late.

      People need to organize now, not just to prep for violence but to ensure there’s some kind of social safety net to fall back on when shit hits the fan.