People are still going to work in Ukraine, they are still paying bill and still need money for that.
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eli@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
So everyone will be killing everyone, but you still think people are going to go to their jobs to pay bills?
If a civil war happens, no one is going to work. Anyone that does will get gunned down.
If anything pops off, my first priority is protecting my family, which means staying home and barricading and waiting a few days before leaving to do recon.
From there either we’ll know if police, national guard, and/or the military will be involved. What states are doing what, and you’ll have local families/communities forming.
Money won’t be a thing, no one is going to work.
Which is why a civil war won’t happen, it’ll crash the economy globally and the 1% can’t have that, so all of this is moot.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Peaky easy obvious counterexamples!
eli@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ukraine isn’t a civil war.
And OP is describing the purge one minute and then a normal Monday morning the next.
Again, no one in the US would be going to work if it was going purge style once the shit hits the fan. I have everyone of all walks of life around me(Dems, conservatives, white people, Mexicans, Asians, etc). Someone, somewhere, will be crazy enough to start driving around in giant pickup trucks and start shooting anyone that is “too brown”.
I’m not risking that happening to me or my family. I will force everyone to be home for a week before things calm down.
We’ve already had domestic terrorists hit our power grids and Jan 6th happened. You don’t think once a “civil war” happens things aren’t going to get worse immediately?
“But everyone has bills to pay” cool, and there are more guns than people in the US, something Ukraine didn’t have to deal with because they’re a sane country.
evol@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
You have a idea of war informed by Hollywood and WW2 documentaries, life is both more normal and more deadly than you think.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
I’ve heard someone say that war is actually mostly really boring with minutes of intense action sprinkled here and there.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Not everyone’s gonna start killing everyone. People will still go to work, money will still be a thing. Barricading your home will be pointless - this isn’t a zombie apocalypse we’re talking about.
It’ll look more like terrorism than actual war. Assassinations, bombings, and mass shootings driven by politics will get way more common, but for most people, life will more or less stay the same.
Stern@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Which is why a civil war won’t happen, it’ll crash the economy globally and the 1% can’t have that, so all of this is moot.
I feel like Donald would mysteriously hang himself and Vance would be full appeasement mode real fast.
That said, we also thought Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine after the 2014 (iirc) treaty and well…
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
first thing would probably thinking of a way to flee to canada or mexico as “illegal alien”
Sektor@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Croatia was at war for 4 years, my dad still worked, my aunt worked in school, we went to school, we had refugees from the war zone and Bosnia. Croatia is tiny and the war was contained to 1/3 of the country. Where the combat is you have nothing, 20 km away people still do normal things. Even in Ukraine things function “normally” outside the combat zone. In US it might be a different game. The country is enormous and it’s not divided by ethnicities, the fight is about gaining power, not land. It will go more like a coup thing. Couple of weeks while things go crazy and waiting which way the army will turn. Than it will be over.