haversoe
1mo ago
Now am I vanishingly unlikely to be the target of an ICE raid? Sure.
As long as they're not working off of bad intel or a warrant or other paperwork with typos.
haversoe
1mo ago
For a civil war to happen in America, the power of the government has to be broken.
It seems to me implicit in this is defining a (future) civil war in America to be between two armies, like the blues vs. the greys, or a large insurgency like the Tamil Tigers. I agree that neither of those will come to pass while there's still a strong central government. But a state of affairs similar to the troubles in Ireland (similar in methodology, i.e. bombings, assassinations, etc.) is within the realm of possibility if something doesn't change, though there's something inside me that insists we'll all come to our senses before that happens.
haversoe
1mo ago
Yes. What's considered "the right" is a very big tent. The evangelical Christian white guys who love NASCAR, pickups and guns and have strong opinions about the rebranding of Cracker Barrel are just a subset of a very diverse whole.
haversoe
1mo ago
or right-wing-equivalent-thereof
He evidently thinks you'll be able to make 6 figures working for either side.
People already make 6+ figures being demented culture warriors on Twitch, Youtube, and T-T.
$100K is not as much as it used to be. There are plenty of military members in the US that make that, not to mention civil servants working with the military.
haversoe
1mo ago
Before Columbine, nobody had ever heard of a school shooting, so nobody did school shootings
Charles Whitman shot and killed 15 people (and injured 31 others) at the University of Texas in 1966. Surprisingly, it was not the only notable school shooting that year. I think part of the reason Columbine sticks out for us as being "the first of its kind" is because there is video footage of them murdering their classmates.
Fair enough, but there might be a substantial percentage of young people on the right (though it might be approximately zero for all I know) who want to round up all the jews and exterminate them and return all the blacks to chains. At least they claim this is what they want, or so the rumor goes.
Evidently we can't call these people Nazis because the term's become meaningless and, besides, some kids get off on being shocking. So the discussion has essentially gone nowhere. Though now I'm curious how many people here are actually supportive of an American Jewish genocide or a return to legal private slavery or of some other course of action that is way, way, waaaaay outside the Overton window and just a minute ago was super-duper-ultra-taboo. The discussion of those particulars can't really be derailed by someone's individual definition of what he thinks a Nazi is.
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