Talk of 'civil war,' ignited by Mar-a-Lago search, is flaring online

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Soon after the FBI searched Donald Trump’s home in Florida for classified documents, online researchers zeroed in on a worrying trend.

Posts on Twitter that mentioned “civil war” had soared nearly 3,000% in just a few hours as Trump’s supporters blasted the action as a provocation. Similar spikes followed, including on Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, Parler, Gab and Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform. Mentions of the phrase more than doubled on radio programs and podcasts, as measured by Critical Mention, a media-tracking firm.

Posts mentioning “civil war” jumped again a few weeks later, after President Joe Biden branded Trump and “MAGA Republicans” a threat to “the very foundations of our republic” in a speech on democracy in Philadelphia.

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More than a century and a half after the actual Civil War, the deadliest war in U.S. history, “civil war” references have become increasingly commonplace on the right. While in many cases the term is used only loosely — shorthand for the nation’s intensifying partisan divisions — observers note that the phrase, for some, is far more than a metaphor.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/talk-of-civil-war-ignited-by-mar-a-lago-search-is-flaring-online/

Most of these cosplayers would shit their pants if they had to face a real firefight. That said we may see a few people hurt or killed by these morons.

[vercetti2021]

1. Fine so be it

Send them back to their moms basements in body bags. If they wanna play soldier, they can die like Russian soldiers. Fuck em.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. I really want to know what their vision of America would look like.

Truly. What exactly would they change? What is so terrible with the way things are? I realize it's not perfect, but what do they really want?

Children working in mines and factories again?
Prayer in public schools?
Outlawing women from doing or being anything but reproductive vessels?
Mandatory race segregation again?

What?


One thing's for sure; I sure as hell don't want to live in any of their wet dream conservative utopia's.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. How many such spikes can be traced to bots? Who set the bots up?

[usonian]

4. Nobody you've met.

[Ferryboat]

9. Did we learn nothing from 2016?

Russian troll farms, or Chinese?

Sure there maybe a few keyboard warriors. Not as many as you think.

[usonian]

12. I connected the dots long ago.

https://pastebin.com/raw/evbnN5y7

Part of my "everything" post.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217021793
Simply put: Who gains from anarchy and civil war here? And it's part of his pattern.

[Haggard Celine]

5. There's going to be a lot of shit happening

around the elections. We're going to see armed groups going to polling places and then there's going to be a lot of claims about stolen elections. Candidates are going to refuse to concede and there will be a lot of turmoil over who gets seated in Congress. There will be another Jan. 6 -- and a lot of people will be showing their 'support' for the pretenders who lost. It's going to be real ugly.

[wnylib]

6. Unfortunately, those things are exactly what I expect to see, too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Recreating losers of 1865 is fine for tourist biz, but not a model for success of any group. . . .nt

[hlthe2b]

8. I always think of this scene from GWTW with Rhett Butler incredulouslly listening to the boisterous

young Confederate men naively lusting for war with not a clue what that entails or how severely unequipped the South was to wage. Today's version from RW Trumpers is not a lot unlike that. Armed with their home stocked AR15s against the might of the US military's heavy weaponry? Really?

All We Got is Cotton, Slaves, and Arrogance:
https://www.classhook.com/resources/410-gone-with-the-wind-all-we-got-is-cotton-slaves-and-arrogance

[HAB911]

10. Jeebus, is that Lindsey Graham?

that wants to fight Rhett or his great granddaddy?

[Scrivener7]

11. I really think our response to that should be, "OK, bring it. Fuck around and find out."

I guarantee it would all go quiet in a week.