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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

2 things:

  • why are Hawaii and Alaska in group #3
  • this dude does not understand wars. The south would loose for the same reason they did last time. They have no infrastructure and they can't read.
[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 170 points 1 week ago (5 children)

2 about to quickly realize how much of 1 and 3's tax dollars they depend on.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Exactly. Was gonna say, 2 basically has the least healthy, least educated, most poor, and most obese people of the entire country.

Good luck

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 16 points 1 week ago

Right wingers taking notes: plenty of meat for the grinder. Check.

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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"But we got all dem Gravy Seals! Ain't they good for somtin'?"

Yes, and you give yourself da Beetus buying soda with the food stamps paid for by New Yorkers.

The sad part is how hard the South committed to losing. Not lost take the L and walk it off. Generational losing. Epic, century-long losing every single fucking day of every life of every redneck, cracker-ass dipshit. Systematic losing, so deeply ingrained that even when they get ahead a little bit, one fucking Yankee asswipe cons half of them out of their every last dime. And they're glad to give it up.

Roman empire levels of tragic, really.

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But they can always pull themselves up by their bootstraps, right?

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[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 1 week ago (12 children)

in what world are 1 and 3 fighting each other?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 week ago

The imaginary world MAGA lives in where everything makes sense and runs on vibes

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they aren't, lol

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Why are they claiming Virginia? They've been leaning against all the other Southern bullshit for a while now

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If conservative voters were able to comprehend the world without the lens of the stereotypes they learned in high school, they wouldn't be conservatives.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Because they’re stuck thinking 150 years in the past.

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[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 36 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Absolutely wild that the Confederate States of America was literally conquered and disbanded, and yet they were allowed to keep the flag.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not even the Confederate flag, is a specific battle flag of some shit battalion that obviously lost.

[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I did know that. But tbh, most of the dipshits flying it don't even know that.

They can fly a dirty white dishcloth any time they want

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[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They're idiots if they think that any sort of civil war would be broken up like that. It'd be the interior states versus the coastal states essentially. The coastal states could just cut off all outside shipments to the interior and watch them just decay.

And there wouldn't be an all out war because the ideologies at contention here aren't readily segregated to one area of the country or the other in a stronger fashion. We're highly mixed in a lot of areas. What would happen is lots of civil unrest and let's be honest here, right wing perpetuated violence.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This.

They also think they'd be the 'majority' in this fight. And sure, they'd have a lot of land. But people... Money? No.

When Biden won, something like over 80% of the GDP broke for the Democrats.

Good luck funding a war with 20% of the money they country makes. There's counties in California that make that much probably.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The yokels simply don't realize that all those fancy military toys they like to harp on about are designed and made in Redondo Beach at Northrop Grummen.

Skunkworks, NG, and a ton of the actual MIC is based in California.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

That and a geographic fortress of the Rockies, dessert, and the plains, plus economically+ manpower + a better relationship abroad. Water would be the big choke point, but they have enough to get into desalinization if they need too.

Shit. I wonder if I should move.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The southerners wouldn't even survive a proper winter the north gets.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A lot of them won't survive this summer.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I do not want a civil war.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nor do I, but history rarely cares what the Common Man™️ wants. Get connected with your local community, and get involved in local politics. It's more important now than ever before.

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[–] potpotato@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

West Virginia exists because they didn’t want to be apart of that bullshit, though I suspect they’ve lost their way in the last couple of generations.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was going to say as much. WV flipped hard in 2000. But it's simple to understand - WV has always been pretty socially conservative, but was Dem because of the unions. They flipped because the Dems decided to turn on the biggest union industries in the state. The coal miner's union isn't a good base for your power when you're overtly talking about actively working to destroy the coal mining industry. To be clear about how much WV cares about coal, it's the state rock and there's a coal miner on the state seal. The libertarian bent of a lot of GOP doesn't hurt either, Montani Semper Liberi and all.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Democrats didn't "turn on" coal, they recognized that it was a collapsing industry doing immeasurable damage to the environment and it would inevitably be phased out. The union failed to account for the future and threw a tantrum about it rather than negotiate re-training or any kind of transition plan.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which funny enough is exactly what they said in the civil war

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

There might be a momentary advantage where 2 come out of the gate strong, as they have their stockpiles of weapons and ammo they obsess over. But they'd peter out the moment their blood pressure and cholesterol meds get depleted and the everyone else rolls their eyes and gets to down to business.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

“Weapons and ammo stockpiles, you say? Hold my Spotted Cow.”

- The Midwest

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (8 children)

THE USA would not break apart like that. The red oblasts would suck Texas dry and the whole damn thing would end in a financial and economic calamity. The Blue States with their GDP would form a union and align it with Canada to create another "European Union." A civil war would not worth a single American bone, just break it apart like the Czechs and Slovaks, peacefully.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well 1 has most of the nukes, money, and food, as well as a really strong natural barrier. And 3 already beat 2 for reasons that remain relevant. So yeah. 1 and 3 ally to curbstomp 2.

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[–] DevDave@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago

1 has a big chunk of the active nuclear weapon stockpile, I don't think they're a group we want to fuck with.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A civil ar in the us wouldn't look like the last. There is no front lines, it would be more similar to Rawanda. One side has been nice enough to fly a flag to let us know where they are. Pay attention

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[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

of course we'd get stuck with the Lego thieves🙄

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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

US operates its nuclear arms across 11 states:

New Mexico: Hosts the largest stockpile of weapons at the Kirtland Underground Munitions and Maintenance Storage Complex.

Washington: Home to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, which houses the Pacific ballistic missile submarine fleet.

Montana: Features 150 active Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos at Malmstrom Air Force Base.

North Dakota: Houses 150 active ICBM silos at Minot Air Force Base.

Wyoming & Colorado: F.E. Warren Air Force Base straddles both states, controlling another 150 operational ICBM silos.

Texas: Home to the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, the primary facility responsible for assembling and dismantling the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Georgia: Base for the Atlantic ballistic missile submarine fleet at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

Nevada: Nellis Air Force Base stores gravity bombs for nuclear-capable aircraft.

Missouri: Whiteman Air Force Base maintains the fleet of B-2 nuclear stealth bombers.

Louisiana: Barksdale Air Force Base is a key storage and operating hub for nuclear-capable B-52 heavy bombers.

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[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

As much as I would want 1 to win, 3 would probably win.

2 winning is laughable. We would have sooooo many drone videos of giant MAGAs frantically waddling away from bring droned, mobility scooters set to emergency power in vain...... lots and lots of yellow in the aftermath videos.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

I hope this guy uses this AI-made map in acting out his fantasy, because it is inaccurate AF

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

If they were capable of learning from their mistakes they wouldn't be conservatives. Doesn't speak highly of the democrats though being unable to unseat most of them.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eh, the military isn't anything like it was 170 years ago. Currently Trump and his allies control the military, and I suspect they would ally with the south. I don't know, I feel like the country actually separating like that would be impossible anyways. During the civil war there would be people who still remembered the US being a loose collection of largely independent states. The US also didn't have a standing army back then. Of course communication and travel are also much easier nowadays and probably state politicians feel more allegiance to the national political parties. If it did happen, for there to be any lasting fight at all, the military bases would probably have to choose their allegiance based on their location. Which feels kinda unlikely to me, idk.

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[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah well MY dad said that AK and HI would wipe the floor with 1 - 3 before morning coffee

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Let's do it, seriously y'all cost more than you're worth, I will sign the petition. You're embarrassing, reds

No more money from New York and California, good luck you're too dumb to even do the math womp womp

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