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Expert Who Ran Simulations on 'How Civil Wars Start' Warns Minnesota Is Exactly What It Looks Like
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You can play everyone's favorite game, "What the Fuck is this Movie Supposed to be About Again?"
"We don't tell you which party is good or bad to hopefully get money from everyone. Also Jesse Plemmons can act so creepily scary."
The movie about civil war being bad.
What's so civil about war anyway?
It's about Civil War. That's why they called it that
I read that as facetious, but I dunno, they could be accelerationist
Or someone living far away from the US.
And living in a bunker I guess. Even leaving out the areseneals both sides would have in a civil war 2 the world wide economy would collapse rapidly.
MFW when you misspell a word and it sounds like my name:
Not the economy! Nooooooo!
https://youtu.be/izDAOvHz5Wc
The world is already working on cutting America out of the world wide economy. Worry about the human suffering and destruction this will cause, not tHE eCOnOmy.
Economic collapse means human suffering and destruction.
The economy as we know it means human suffering and destruction already, because it's based upon reputation, lies, exploitation, and bets. Economic collapse and economic collapse are two different things.
The movement of goods and services is unlikely to suddenly stop. Reduce? Sure. Stop? No. The world is preparing and making agreements without US involvement to allow movement to continue. I mean, capitalism is already predicated on boom and bust, economic collapse is already built into the system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Rodney
https://youtu.be/st6qnWeePDY
What the numbers say and the reality of life are two very different things. Care about the reality of life, not how the fucking DOW Jones is doing. Fuck the economy, humans are what matter. The economy is largely a charade.
Anyway, America became a superpower because it was a manufacturing powerhouse with the world's biggest stick. Now it only has the stick and other countries are making their own big sticks. The world will be fine, economically, without America. And America's economy, is a lie, the working person is unlikely to be worrying about the NYSE or DOW Jones when the Gestapo and SA are prowling the streets.
America is building concentration camps, murdering citizens on the street, threatening global war, and the worry is the economy? Fuck that. The economy will adapt and survive. Worry about the human suffering.
Nope. Detroit. I was speaking in jest.
Is joke.
Well rip buddy that didn't seem to land at all lol. Tbf, while I think lemmy is generally pretty good about reading sarcasm without the "/s", this one honestly was pretty ambiguous as there are whole instances of users who unironically hold that opinion
I'm going to say what I want to say. I dgaf about internet points from basement dwelling Linux enthusiasts.
Well no need for the insult. Your joke didn't land, whatever. Happens to the best of us
Not an insult.
your brain
Yeah, it will be like laser tag. Everyone will have a good time and then laugh about it when we get home.