Poll: Left vs Right in a Civil War. Who will win?

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Blue_Max

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Bah, cut the power for a week tops and even the "supporters" will turn against any of the rebels. Sure there is a lot of rabble from all kinds of people but when it comes down to brass tacks they won't trade their lifestyles to actually go through with anything remotely close to a rebellion or war. We don't have the stomach to wage a real war in a country that 90% of Americans can't find on a map and don't give a shit about. Yet you think that there are enough people that are willing to have any sort of a war in their own backyards?

It would take a hell of a lot more then the "wrong" person getting elected for any significant portion of the country to rise up. Something on the level of true hunger and no power. Hell we just had the "great recession" were a significant portion of the population lost a ton of money, their homes, investments, retirement accounts, jobs, etc while the banksters that actually caused the problem got richer. That didn't cause mass rebellion and this election sure won't.

The total chaos that followed hurricane Katrina is a fine example. Remember the old adage, "Anarchy is never more than just nine missed meals away."
 

JSt0rm

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the right loves the idea of the world falling apart so that the skill set of killing your neighbors for their food and lighting fire with sticks will have more value then designing furniture and making apps. The reality is we wont come to that in our lifetimes. So your pay will be commensurate with your skills. And pew pewing targets in your backyard while you dream of being a bad ass is worth exactly $0 in this modern world.
 
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bshole

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You seem like a closet Jacksonian at heart.

I honestly don't know what that means. Andrew Jackson?

My perspective is that we have been bombing and killing people in the Middle East for nearly 15 years and the situation over there appears EXPONENTIALLY worse for our involvement. They say insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Based on that definition, our policy appears insane.

Why not provide humanitarian aid? Why not have the UN provide safe zones? Why not try diplomacy? Why not try disengaging altogether? Why not attempt to resolve the issues between the affected parties?

Why doesn't the US even bother stating what they want to replace ISIS and Assad with? Why should the US get to choose the governments in Syria and Iraq? There is a reason that those two countries' hatred of America is off the charts. Geez you bomb and terrorize a country for more than a decade and they express no gratitude. Who would have thunk it?

MORE THAN 90 PERCENT of young people in Iraq consider the United States to be an enemy of their country, according to a new poll.

After years spent justifying the war as a “liberation” of the Iraqi people, the survey casts further doubt on the success of that endeavor.

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/13/young-iraqis-overwhelmingly-consider-u-s-their-enemy-poll-says/

The American objective in the Middle East should be to facilitate peace and stability, NOT TO INSTALL PUPPET GOVERNMENTS AT THE POINT OF AMERICAN BOMBS.
 
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Blue_Max

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Another fine example of leftist "fighting" -- commit an act of violence then immediately retreat to a "safe space" where they can attack more without fear of any kind of resistance.

They see themselves as "noble by default", thus any horrible act they do in the name of [whatever collectivist group name they agree on that day] is totally justified.

This is why I see no clear winner. As we've seen around the world, cowardly sneak attacks like planted bombs can do incredible psychological damage (their favorite kind!)
 

OutHouse

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the right loves the idea of the world falling apart so that the skill set of killing your neighbors for their food and lighting fire with sticks will have more value then designing furniture and making apps. The reality is we wont come to that in our lifetimes. So your pay will be commensurate with your skills. And pew pewing targets in your backyard while you dream of being a bad ass is worth exactly $0 in this modern world.

you have some really deep seeded hatred. you should seek help. seriously, talk to somebody.
 
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Another fine example of leftist "fighting" -- commit an act of violence then immediately retreat to a "safe space" where they can attack more without fear of any kind of resistance.

They see themselves as "noble by default", thus any horrible act they do in the name of [whatever collectivist group name they agree on that day] is totally justified.

This is why I see no clear winner. As we've seen around the world, cowardly sneak attacks like planted bombs can do incredible psychological damage (their favorite kind!)

awww

 

Zaap

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What's funniest in this dumb hypothetical, is both sides imagine a solidarity of their 'side' that simply doesn't, and never would, exist in the real world.

On the right, urban conservatives and the rural redneck element would have little to do with each other in any such war. Both factions would have some advantage in not having a babified fear of weapons, and so would more likely have more of them- but would be just as likely to be using them against each other, as against the leftside factions.

On the left side, the imagined solidarity would be even more of a rude awakening. Inner city dwelling lefties -with absolutely NO FEAR of weapons and brute force- would murder, rape, kill, brutalize and pillage the wussy uptown leftists with glee. For a quick snapshot, picture skinny jeans wearing liberal wusses dropped unarmed and iPhone-clad into the yard at San Quentin. After the absolute bloodbath of rape, pillage and murder, the thug left would just have whatever valuables the uptown ninnies once possessed.

So after that, the remaining non-thug left would retreat into hiding, along with the counterpart non-redneck faction on the right.

Whatever actual civil war would basically boil down to rural hillbillies vs. urban thugs. Survival of the most brutish, basically. After the dust cleared, both sides of the more intelligent would emerge- and the surviving left would immediately whine at the right for help rebuilding their areas. (like Katrina).
 

agent00f

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What's funniest in this dumb hypothetical, is both sides imagine a solidarity of their 'side' that simply doesn't, and never would, exist in the real world.

On the right, urban conservatives and the rural redneck element would have little to do with each other in any such war. Both factions would have some advantage in not having a babified fear of weapons, and so would more likely have more of them- but would be just as likely to be using them against each other, as against the leftside factions.

On the left side, the imagined solidarity would be even more of a rude awakening. Inner city dwelling lefties -with absolutely NO FEAR of weapons and brute force- would murder, rape, kill, brutalize and pillage the wussy uptown leftists with glee. For a quick snapshot, picture skinny jeans wearing liberal wusses dropped unarmed and iPhone-clad into the yard at San Quentin. After the absolute bloodbath of rape, pillage and murder, the thug left would just have whatever valuables the uptown ninnies once possessed.

So after that, the remaining non-thug left would retreat into hiding, along with the counterpart non-redneck faction on the right.

Whatever actual civil war would basically boil down to rural hillbillies vs. urban thugs. Survival of the most brutish, basically. After the dust cleared, both sides of the more intelligent would emerge- and the surviving left would immediately whine at the right for help rebuilding their areas. (like Katrina).

The US military would put the revolting rednecks out of their misery about as quick as their gun totting counterparts oversea. These days they'd probably do it with drones without leaving their desk.
 
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nickqt

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What's funniest in this dumb hypothetical, is both sides imagine a solidarity of their 'side' that simply doesn't, and never would, exist in the real world.

On the right, urban conservatives and the rural redneck element would have little to do with each other in any such war. Both factions would have some advantage in not having a babified fear of weapons, and so would more likely have more of them- but would be just as likely to be using them against each other, as against the leftside factions.

On the left side, the imagined solidarity would be even more of a rude awakening. Inner city dwelling lefties -with absolutely NO FEAR of weapons and brute force- would murder, rape, kill, brutalize and pillage the wussy uptown leftists with glee. For a quick snapshot, picture skinny jeans wearing liberal wusses dropped unarmed and iPhone-clad into the yard at San Quentin. After the absolute bloodbath of rape, pillage and murder, the thug left would just have whatever valuables the uptown ninnies once possessed.

So after that, the remaining non-thug left would retreat into hiding, along with the counterpart non-redneck faction on the right.

Whatever actual civil war would basically boil down to rural hillbillies vs. urban thugs. Survival of the most brutish, basically. After the dust cleared, both sides of the more intelligent would emerge- and the surviving left would immediately whine at the right for help rebuilding their areas. (like Katrina).
The best part of your civil war genocide fantasy is the obvious dogwhistle racism in re: "leftists".

That said, at least it wasn't rape fantasy, although you did, of course, include rape in there, so, nevermind.
 
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