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by scarface74 2309 days ago
why do you take at face value that with enough propaganda that people wouldn’t all of the sudden classify their own neighbors as “them”? Isn’t that just what happened in Rwanda?

Isn’t that the definition of a civil war?

But if you are convinced that the military would turn on its own people, doesn’t that still make the whole “we need guns to protect ourself from a potential fascist government and we are going to run around in the woods and prepare” silly?

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A civil war seems entirely possible.

The idea that the military would stay unified and be on one ‘side’ of a civil war does not.

In any case it is obvious from the Middle East that people with guns can in fact stand up to the US military quite successfully.