Ask Lemmy

watch racists lose, again

Real talk, it's going to be like the troubles or the early days of Nazi Germany, not like people forming battle lines and shit. The only way the latter happens is if states secede; one viable scenario I've considered is California/Pacifica seceding and a subsequent shooting fight over water rights, because of how much water California gets from the Colorado River basin and other water sources outside its borders. But realistically, it's going to be shitty partisan on partisan on innocent bystander violence.

Best advice I've heard is to form close ties and mutual aid agreements with your neighbors and friends. A small network of people can be far, far, far more resilient in defending protecting themselves than individuals or families can.

Watch the news and be depressed about it I guess. Also, being glad not to live there.

Head over and shoot fascists. What else is there?

Not visit the USA.

Probably just continue to talk shit to Nazis until one of them kills me.

Y'know, a life well lived.

Starve? Die from lack of medicine/doctors? Get killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Focus on hit and run, and harassment tactics. Spec into speed and endurance, and use mostly Void Rays, hopefully we can wrap it up in mid game with a decent economy and a mid level apm.

Probably get shot by some Y'all Qaeda cosplayer for having a mixed race spouse. Whether this happens before or after my brother gets taken out for being gay is up for debate. I hope my sister is spared because her meathead baby daddy is a right wing useful idiot, but she's an unmarried bisexual mother and that doesn't pass the purity test, no sir.

I kinda feel bad for my mom since she was largely apolitical until a black man had the audacity to get elected president, but there's nothing I can do to stop the parade of leopards once they go face-hunting. Doubly so if I'm dead.

What if there is a nuclear war just as an asteroid hits the earth while the supervolcano erupts during the civil war?

Hope it's like the first one and nothing happens in California.

As a Canadian: stay the heck away the border because who knows if they're gonna launch a missile at Niagara Falls, NY and hit Niagara Falls, ON?

Back in the day I was a soldier who could hit a target pretty well. But I'm 50 now and my back barely works for standing up, let alone fighting.

I'm going to be a meat sandbag for people to fight behind.

Take the US example and close all EU borders to american refugees. If you still try, we unfortunately have to put you into detention centers.

Not talk about what I'd do if a fascist government were to start looking for people like me.

Quite literally move to Canada, I'm a dual citizen.

Hunker down and see if the neighbors attack. It’s 50/50 around here. I don’t think my neighbors will attack me but who knows! I’ve got enough guns and ammo to defend myself if it’s not a super heavy attack. Idk, in a civil war, does everyone just start fighting? I’d probably be more careful going to the store…

Watch it unfold on TV News, I expect. And then think about it less and less as it begins just another fucked-up thing happening in the world.

We have a bug out spot in a very remote area near the border. It’s where we plan on retiring anyway. Stay the hell out of the way of the war I suppose.

I'm getting older, have few weapons and only paintball experience. So I'm of no use in combat. I'm fairly certain foreign powers would get involved, and I'd be curious to see what they do. Getting accurate news and info is difficult right now. I imagine it would be near impossible during a 2nd civil war.

Third. The war of independence was a civil war too.

Worry, mostly (as a US citizen living overseas). I doubt my family would want to come over, and I doubt Japan would even issue visas for them to do so (on most SoRs, you can only bring over dependent family who are financially and/or medically dependent upon you. None of my family pass this test).

It really would depend upon what kind of conflict it became. If it involved the armed forces even currently overseas (though I doubt it), presumably, a number of nations would do whatever the hell they felt like if they felt emboldened enough by a preoccupied US. This would be checked in Europe, but I'm less sure about Asia. Then again I'm just a normal dude.

Hope that important infrastructure like payment methods and social media end up heading to Europe. Maybe, if I can, let a particular friend from the States seek asylum and live with me.

Go hang out with my well armed friend on a boat somewhere in the Caribbean.