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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
There's not going to be a civil war; not today and not anytime soon. America is a fluid economic and cultural zone without dividing lines that could organize political violence. If you look at data, the most significant form of polarization politically is based on intimate individualistic factors like gender and age. Most importantly, no country with a high per-capita GDP has ever had a civil war. The logic is simple: Even if you're really mad about something in politics, in America you still have the option of watching the football game and going to Cinnabon. The minimal bread of Cinnabon and circus of the NFL is democratically accessible to the masses on a level unlike anything in human history. To the vast majority of people that rationally sounds like a better option than rotting away in prison or giving up ones life or health for some abstract cause. Rich countries don't have civil wars, they just yell alot. Maybe a civil war could be organized in the metaverse one day so people can blow off steam.
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tricil
@tricil.eth
I disagree polarization has increased rapidly since Ferguson on the right you had: anti-LGBTQ covid denial anti-black lives mattering post-truth pro-puritanical (see project 2025) pro-guns (sure second amendment is cool but literally anyone can get an AR-15 and spray a crowd, a common occurrence, even) the left: antifa, which literally just meant “anti fascist” woke, which isn’t a bad way to be: I’d rather be “woke” than an asshole and people lined up on each side each year. it’s only getting worse.
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kk
@king
wait, why did i get notif for this?
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ZAM
@zam-artist
Post-reality is more accurate. That started in 2016, when that split end-ridden hate goblin Kellyanne Conway uttered the sentence that changed the definition and perception of truth irrevocably: "We have alternative facts", thus making 'truth' arguable apparently
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
all those things are true and I think the polarization will even get worse but it wont divide the country into civil war. maybe some brawls and acts of isolated violence
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