Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by lr4444lr on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:08PM (#43214347)

A Civil War in the USA? Where would the battle lines even be drawn? There is no consensus, and there are hardly even blue or red states anymore beyond 60/40 splits. Even racially we are seeing a lot less polarization.

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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by chasd00 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:50AM (#43220430)

I live in Texas and back when the idea of succession was being thrown around I asked my friends if they’d go toe to toe with the US Marines while bombers and drones loitered above their heads. They got very quiet.

I don’t think a civil war in the us is possible but I think advertisers taking advantage of the divisiveness to see chaos is likely (and already happening).

Edit: I meant “adversaries” instead of “advertisers” but I think advertisers works equally well so left it in.

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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by chaostheory on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:00AM (#43220560)

If it were to happen, it would also be very skewed towards one side, since only the right believes in arming themselves.

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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by alexilliamson on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:26PM (#43221454)

Most likely is that the side with the army and guns turns the blue areas into an occupied police state, and sells it to the constituency as a "civil war", despite it being completely one-sided.

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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by piperswe on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:14PM (#43227210)

I think it would be a lot more like the Troubles than the original American Civil War.

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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by dragonwriter on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:31PM (#43227298)

> A Civil War in the USA? Where would the battle lines even be drawn?

Clear, obvious initial battle lines are not a prereauisite for a civil war. The American Civil War, where the conflict was largely motivated by an issue which had a geographical split among subordinate polities was kimd of a special case.

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