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erronis

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4. Someone asked me yesterday about "soft secession". My first reaction is it can't happen,
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 02:06 PM
Sep 18

but then I thought more and agreed that it could. But it would be a wrenching no-winner civil war with the current regime controlling a lot of the weapons.

Some on the maga side think a civil war would be a fun exercise, similar to what some Americans on both sides of the "War Between the States" thought - picnic blankets laid out to watch the soldiers parading and firing at one another. And then the streams ran red with blood from both sides and millions of innocents.

As was recently pointed out, virtually everybody will lose access to electricity, running water/sewage, hospitals will be closed, normal social services will stop. Whether red state or blue state, all skin colors and ethnicities. Cars won't have fuel. Grocery stores won't exist.

Sure the ultra-rich will survive better but the stench will be unpleasant for years (oh, no grave diggers.)

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