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by hotpotamus 1518 days ago
America has a history of political tensions posing a danger to it. For a few years it maybe wasn't one country and quite a significant percentage of the population died sorting that out.
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Americans seem to think that we're the only ones who ever had a Civil War and that it is a Really Big Deal, ignoring that there are civil conflicts occurring right now, and with higher body counts, too.
Yeah, way to gatekeep civil wars America.
While that's true, I think it's worth noting that a civil war in the country with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world would be Very Bad.