The Kremlin loves these idiots.
Good sheep make the best voters.
Fear and Anger seem to be the strongest strings to puppeteer an idiot.
And vice versa. Easy bet these people would rather have Putin as president than Joe Biden.
Sec deez nuts bro
Dude at the end looking at his two e’s like he put them in the wrong order. Just priceless.
Republicans: “We’d win a 2nd civil war, we have all the guns!”
Bitch, do you think your civilian small-arms could stand against the full military might of the federal government!? Not even saying it’s a good thing…
Historically yes, an uprising of civilians has a great chance at asymmetrical warfare on their own turf.
You can’t destroy your own infrastructure like you can someone else’s.
Will they win? Almost certainly not.
Can they force some concessions? Probably
If they secdee it is not “your own infrastructure” for the main country anymore.
It is though, they will still want to just reconquer and reconcile
They’d pull punches but lets not kid ourselves, Texas is not going to last very long against checks notes the entire United States military
The Taliban did ok, Texans can probably do better than them
The Taliban didn’t have their home base on American soil. They were a significant distance overseas which created a lot of logistical barriers.
It’s the difference between walking next door to kill your neighbor and catching a flight to kill him while he’s on vacation.
If you think Texans can’t mount an insurgency that would turn extraordinarily bloody for both sides, you’re crazy. A significant part of the military would switch sides too, and we’d have a full blown civil war on our hands.
Honestly though, gutting the infra and starting from scratch would likely be the better choice in the end.
It wouldn’t happen like that. We would have an insurgency and lots of terrorist attacks. You would have towns and areas that are under insurgent control, with reprisal killings at night. Shit like that. I can’t tell you to take it seriously, but you ought to at least consider how it would actually look if it happened.
- It’s not going to happen
- If it did, they would lose
That doesn’t mean I don’t take it seriously. We already have electrical substations getting shot by “Y’all-Qaeda”…
Well even if they lose, I’m sure that won’t be much comfort to the good people they kill along the way. I just don’t think we should be glib at the thought of open civil conflict. Looking at it this way convinced me that I don’t want to be without the means to defend myself and my loved ones in the event our “cold” civil war suddenly becomes “hot”.
It really depends on what would be happening in the military and intelligence services.
I don’t think people really understand just how much a civil conflict would be a war of information as opposed to a war of arms.
If things got bad enough domestically that laws like the Patriot Act were expanded and agencies that haven’t been supposed to operate domestically suddenly could, and those agencies were still 100% under government control, you’d have vans (or simply drones) taking out domestic terrorists in the middle of the night right before the day they were supposed to organize to kill and terrorize their neighbors.
The US could become an almost unthinkable police state under the control of a government like China’s or if we had a Stalin-esque administration.
This is the part that Y’all Queda don’t fully grasp. They aren’t hiding out in caves in Afghanistan or air gapped in Pakistan. The only thing keeping them safe from the monsters under their bed that they largely don’t realize are there is the very government they think would be such a bright idea to try to overthrow. And if that government saw them as enough of an existential threat to unleash the monsters on them, well, they’d have quickly succeeded in overthrowing the US government in a sense, but wouldn’t be around to see it.
“The government” isn’t a monolith. It is made up of human beings with differing political opinions. US military assets are spread all around the country. US intelligence agencies are full of people that would prefer the far right to the far left. I think you are also overestimating the power of intelligence agencies.
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Same argument was made about Jan 6, but when they called in the national guard they showed right the fuck up. Military aren’t to be fucked with, they know the chain of command. They know if they step out of line in that way their entire military career (and most likely civilian career and livelihood) is over. It would take several people high up disobeying commands, knowing they’ll probably get court martialed, and everyone underneath them for that to happen.
Stop fear mongering. Military knows who is in charge and where their paychecks come from. I’m more worried about who controls the military because that super loyal knife cuts both ways.
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The Taliban would like a word.
On their own turf the USA has all the maps of everything including of what’s underground, they already have records of who are the potential insurrectionists, where they live, what they drive, who their families are and they also have the support of a huge part of the population.
Oh and good luck to the guys who own machine guns and hunting rifles when facing drones flying high enough that you can’t see them with your naked eye.
It would have nothing to do with Afghanistan.
The guys half way across the world from the US army, where the only thing at stake was a country they’d bombed to shit previously?
Which is exactly why the US isn’t going to carpet bomb their own territory. One, ruling over a rubble-laden wasteland isn’t very appealing. Destroying your own infrastructure isn’t good for GDP. Two, soldiers are going to have a lot harder time bombing their own homeland, regardless of how well trained they are.
That’s like saying the US wouldn’t fight the confederacy because it would damage their land…
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And things have changed quite a bit since the civil war. We have a very interconnected country and world. Airplanes exist now. Nuclear submarines and cruise missiles. The destructive power of our weapons has increased ten fold. And we have instant access to 24/7 new media. I don’t think we have the appetite for such a thing in this day and age. Not to mention how any number of hostile nations would be foaming at the mouth looking forward to us having our guard down.
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So then the citizenry and army would be fighting on equal footing then and the “we have all the guns here in Texas” argument goes back to making sense. Either the US uses their overwhelming military power or not, you can’t choose both.
No?
Why would you assume it works that way.
I’m saying that if you rely on having F-16 fighter jets and drones dropping bombs, you’re arguing for wholesale destruction. If you don’t rely on fighter jets and bombing raids, that means you’re fighting a ground war against insurgents that are more or less equally armed, assuming they have weapons like AR-15s.
My point is that cruise missiles don’t solve every problem; namely armed local insurgencies. What kind of third use-of-force scenario are you imagining?
The Taliban had the advantage of logistics. Which we all know is important in war according to Sun Tzu.
It will be a whole lot different when they can fight on their own home turf, which they have been fortifying since whenever they arrived.
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Jan 6 insurgents got pretty close to overthrowing the government. Imagine if they were armed.
Lol. I understand its symbolism, but let’s be real: they overwhelmed a building and barely clashed with poorly-staffed local police. In no reality were they in any way “close to overthrowing the government”.
Taliban tied up the US for 20 years in Afghanistan, look who is in charge now.
There’s a pretty big difference between wanting to conquer/occupy a region and helping a local population police it. Plus, once government and social support for US presence in Afghanistan dropped, someone was going to control it.
Your Federal Army isn’t going to do as well as you think it is.
It’s not “my” federal military, and I’m not supporting them. But anyone who thinks they can win a war against the US military on US soil is out of their mind.
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They were armed. Not all of them but they did have guns.
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Interesting. If the rioters shot at the police, law enforcement would respond with deadly force. A lot of y’alqadas would also get shot by other rioters. It would be a one sided blood bath.
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The south will ries agani!
If only it said the south will rye again.
Rye is awesome!
Love how they get a random black guy/gal involved, like they wouldn’t be decorating the nearest tree if these fuckers got their way.
Words clearly fail them too
Or they fail the words 🤔…
The words, they fail.
they already tried to secede with their electric grid…
It collapsed…
oops?
It is funny to see the calls like this and also the calls for civil war. The number of texans capable of shooting down an F35 with the puny small arms they bought is zero. Shoot, replace F35 with any plane built in the past 50 years.
That is why there will never be a civil war.
Before you start mumbling something about republicans flying F35s, keep in mind you actually have to have an ounce of intelligence to fly one. If they had any intelligence they would not be republican.
You could just be racist. There are plenty of very smart and very racist people.
Texan here. We don’t want a civil war, it’s just far right nutjobs. We would do fine as our own country, but things would be worse quality of life wise.
Does Texas become open season or would war have to be declared? Mainly I don’t want to join/get drafted but I’m down to fuck around.
Ive been to the state fair. TX with never rise again with that amount of deep fried butter
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You need a fuck-ton of infrastructure to keep fighter jets flying. The service time to fight time ratio is ~18:1. Nothing but an established state has the organization and the logistics supply to keep one in the air.
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You still would need the help of the entire government to keep the jets flying and armed. No fuel delivery? Cut out of satelite usage? No GPS? You’re fucked and then put in jail and/or to death, because the US have death penalty
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What “you’re telling me” doesn’t make any sense. How on earth would holding a little airbase surrounded by the largest military force in the world, and a NATO member?
Don’t they make F35 in Texas?
Anybody good with anagrams care to tell me what it should or could say?
I cheated by knowing what the nutjobs want this time ::: spoiler spoiler texas should secede from the USA because Biden doesn’t let them kill refugees :::
Thanks! I didn’t know that word, so I would never have gotten that.
Also wtf!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2Z8gg4IFW7/?igsh=dGFqanNxcmZqNzNw
This is what Munich looked like last week when their politicians started discussing moving immigrants to a “model state” somewhere in Africa. Just saying…
“iced see”
“see cd e”
“Dee’s Ice”
“seed.ce ->” but they’ll need scissors to chop up the “!”
“We’ll make mariguana even more illegal! With harsher punishment! And we’ll make legal guns even BIGGER ‘n’ faster! Don’t tread on me YEEHAW!”
The south with cries again 😂
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Them, too.
What the hell is this supposed to spell?
Secede
Facepalm
My guess is
SEE!CDRun Dos Run
cd games
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