Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours agoWhile I generally agree with everything you’ve said…
This, what we have right now?
The early access alpha preview of what could potentially happen.
Try and imagine an actual artillery strike or JDAM strike on your neighborhood, or, all the water stops working safely due to either a treatment plant getting blown up or intentionally sabotaged and poisoned.
Oh you live in an enemy city, its could this winter, hot this summer?
Click, boom. No more power for ya’ll, have fun.
… it can get so, so much worse than what we are seeing right now.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
This is all true, to which I ask, what is the alternative? I’m afraid that the future of the USA is one of two options: the authoritative oppression of fascism, or the chaotic hellscape of war. Both are intolerably violent. Fascism is targeted and ruthless; War is broad and destructive.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Oh I also don’t disagree with the implication(s) of your rhetorical question there.
This is a do or die moment, a hinge point or era of history.
I am just trying to make very clear that… now that we, collectively, have allowed the situation to get to the point it is now at?
Well now, instead of removing a small tumor or two, a bit of chemo maybe… now we’re at stage 4, its likely terminal, and none of the options are good, easy, muchless guaranteed to work.
Changing the situation, solving the problem… is now simply unavoidably going to be extremely costly, in ways that… probably most people who regularly post on internet forums think they understand, think they are or could be ready for… but in reality they likely are not.
Reading about the horrors of a civil war, watching a documentary or movie or reading a book about it, … that’s one thing.
Living it is quite another.
… do you really wanna live forever?
People are gonna actually have to answer that question, at least to themselves, honestly.
And our culture is primarily one of consumerist escapism… so this is going to cause even more existential crises and psychoses than we have seen so far.
We’re gonna see a lot of people’s true colors.
A lot of people simply will not be able to cope, they’ll implode, collapse in on themselves, or maybe explode outwardly.
And then, after that, we’ll have to see how many people are actually any kind of competent and effective, at living, at resisting… after all the toys and treats go away.