• @derf82@lemmy.world
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    16410 months ago

    “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy.” - David Frum

    We are here, folks. They are planning civil war if they don’t win an election already rigged in their favor.

    • @Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      That’s been clear for a while IMHO. They are just starting to say it louder for the benefit of the dumber counterparts among them (aka the greater majority of trumps non 1% base).

    • morgan423
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      2310 months ago

      They can try. Were it to come to that, they are badly outgunned and outnumbered.

        • @agent_flounder
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          1810 months ago

          The ones I know on the left that have em don’t talk about them much (or act psycho or make it their identity or whatever else).

        • @Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world
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          1210 months ago

          Also they seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how wars are fought and won. It almost never comes down to bullets. It comes down to communication, supply lines, tactics, and information. 1000 bullets aren’t worth jack if you don’t know where their artilary is being launched from.

        • Roundcat
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          310 months ago

          I believe them. I don’t think anyone here shouting “bring it” is actually ready to fight a war.

      • @retrieval4558@mander.xyz
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        1710 months ago

        Only if the police and military don’t side with them… and there is a rage against the machine song that comes to mind about that.

      • @nomecks@lemmy.world
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        810 months ago

        Watching “Shiny Happy People” gave me an idea how frighteningly organized conservatives are. Not Trump and his lackeys, but the larger christian right.

        • @shadowSprite@lemmy.world
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          610 months ago

          Yeah, I feel like they are better prepared than we give them credit for. The true powers are happy to let the Ya’llqaida run their mouths and wander around in Walmart camo looking ridiculous, because it makes the rest of us discredit them. But the real threat is very strong, very powerful, and very hidden. I was raised conservative Christian. I was raised under a lot of the same beliefs as the fucking cult in Shiny Happy People. I went to camp at one of the universities that they are apparently organizing conservative youth to go into politics with the purpose of taking over. I didn’t know about any of it, I’d never heard the name of that cult before or that any of it was happening, that’s how well it is hidden. I think that they are so good at sliding under the surface that you can be so close to it and never know it’s there meanwhile they are paying off people and getting policies made and controlling the world however they see fit. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

        • Roundcat
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          510 months ago

          It will shock you when you learn how well funded many are too. People need to stop thinking of insurrectionists as hobbyist hillbillies with shotguns. A lot of them are full on paramilitary groups.