There might be a bit of violence, but if you think that Americans are going to all out war instead of just accepting the election results and whining about it on twitter then you're mistaken.
There might be a bit of violence, but if you think that Americans are going to all out war instead of just accepting the election results and whining about it on twitter then you're mistaken.
While it’s not a perfect metaphor, I saw someone say that what we’d be in for if Biden wins is something analogous to The Troubles in Ireland but more decentralized. A sharp uptick in lone wolf right wing terror attacks which won’t spark an outright civil war, but will create a culture of unease and fear.
Even the IRA had overseas funding and support from countries like Libya. Who is gonna support attacks on the world's financial hegemon?
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Would chuds take Chinese guns though? I feel like if China came to them with offer of material support they'd say something obscenely racist before telling them to fuck off
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The IRA's funding came from private citizens in the US. When that finally dried up they hit the negotiating table.
The US could easily fund its own IRA style groups, it just takes money and some willingness from the authorities to look the other way. The same millionaires that buy elections could decide to stockpile weapons. It's happened in many countries. They just haven't done that yet because they can still get their way through politics.
Again, those multimillionaires have a vested material interest in the stability of the country.
If Trump were to steal the election and try to consolidate power, the financial class would probably fund it. Trump hates them and wants to remove them from power in favor of people who are industrial nationalists. They don't hate Trump because he's uncouth and crass, they hate him because he really does want to purge the "deep state" (agents of financial capital that have permanent positions of power in the state). If he becomes an existential threat to their power, they will definitely fund domestic terrorism against him and his movement. It's not like they've never funded terrorists before lol.
That seems a lot more realistic imo
Yeah I've been saying it will be The Troubles for a while.
There's a huge difference to that though.
The IRA were way more organized than anything left based in the US right now. They had activists willing to die in prison with hunger strikes and they fought the British for years.
Until we actually have an organized left movement that is willing to do anything like that, we aren't getting anywhere. On the other side, the far right have spent decades organizing and talking about a tyrannical government imposing martial law, gun control and all of that. They're the ones that are going to be calling the shots. They've been waiting for this moment since the 70s and on up and have had plenty of time to organize. The left on the other hand, is too divided with ID-POL bullshit and other petty nonsense that at most, we'll have small groups who are outnumbered by the far right.
It won't be like the Troubles at all and that is a poor comparison. It will be more like Lebanon or Yugoslavia. It will be a civil war that is broken down and divided through everything from race, class, culture and religion. Americans are heavily divided.
I think in this analogy right wingers are the IRA.