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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Is that what you think a civil war would do? What would this war look like to you?

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

Well its been well established the rational people and MAGA simply cant coexist, so I would imagine the war is going to look pretty terrible for everyone. But if we dont pull this tumor out its will only bed itself deeper into our society. Half of the US has already demonstrated that they will violently destroy any attempt at progress and salt the Earth so those options are lost forever. Yeah, id say the war is going to suck.

But either we win and we actually get to start making progress, or we lose and the world actually becomes idiocracy now that those who care and those who have central nervous systems have been killed. Either the world finally stops being mustashe twirlingly comically evil, or me and mine are no longer in this world.

Its so fucking frustrating that democrats and centrists insist on propogating a broken system of civility politics. The law exists for a damn reason, when people break it they deserve whatever punishment society has deemed them of. And yet when we have clearly guilty individuals the "good guys" dont want to rock the boat. Fucking do ANYTHING other than let them continue ffs

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It sure won't be pretty. But peace without justice is not peace - it's stagnation, and any society that accepts that is already dead.

It's like stopping a fever... Sure, it looks fine at first... But the virus is running rampant and it WILL kill the patient. You have to let the fever go, and hope the patient outlasts the infection.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think everyone knows what civil war looks like, but some people are okay sacrificing everything for a proper society where armed government goons can't just shoot you in the face at will.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

As someone with autism, my fate is sealed if RFK has his way. I fight, because the alternative is enslavement and horrific death. That, and I want to actually enjoy the latter half of my life without the shadow of fascism.

Killing a bunch of chubby fucking incels to save our home.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean I'd probably die, and good riddance, but hopefully the rest of the world would be saved from the US.