An appropriate Quora question for the 4th: In the event of new US civil war, which side would you be on?
I didn't personally comment here as there were plenty of others willing to do my talking. Just upvoted a few that were in fundamental accord with my views.
About the guy who said there 500,000 weapons in the US, I was tempted to answer that but I saw someone else had done a fair job so I let it pass.
About the guy who said there 500,000 weapons in the US, I was tempted to answer that but I saw someone else had done a fair job so I let it pass.
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"The other side gets easily confused about which gender they are"
"They’re rushing us while waving bongs and dildos. They have no firearms at all.”
"one side is voluntarily disarmed"
They just keep telling themselves that. They screw up everything else in their lives, but that's other people's fault. If the law break down, and it's replaced with ignoring the law while chanting law-and-order, maybe their pathetic lives will be different.
So they keep telling themselves people who believe in Enlightenment values would never shoot back.
Needless to say, neither of these two favored by her complied exactly with Objectivist ethics, but the alternatives were so horribly repugnant to her that she campaigned for and championed those favorites vigorously,
The point is the "good" in politics isn't always ideal or perfect, but even in an incomplete or contorted shape, it's still preferable to the totally, multidimensionally corrupt. That's why I'll vote Trump in a '24 contest with Biden.
To me it's not the fact that Trump supporters probably own more weapons in the event of a civil war. I simply see Trump as ethically superior to Biden. Maybe that's not saying much, but to me it's still decisive. I'll know Trump is a scoundrel when he joins the league of weapons confiscators--where Biden currently resides as a leading advocate. Until then Trump has my support (and I think Ayn Rand would approve).
Considering useless wars we've gotten into~~one causing me to get drafted with me lucking out staying stateside as a supply clerk~~I'd rather not get caught up in a war between homegrown idiots either.
Me the dino picked up "Live free! Die well!" from The Scorpion King because I rather live free than under a tyrannical boot heel.
Someday things may come down to "Give me liberty or give me death."
I used to call it the “uncivil war”.
It is simply a war between good and evil.
It is being fought with irregular warfare, that includes information warfare, political warfare.
The fake news is a deep state weapon so are all the controlled puppets in Con gross.
If it came to a war between those who want to federalize/nationalize abortion "rights" (as under Roe--making the unwilling pay for those "rights") and those who want to criminalize abortion in all states without exemption/exception, I'd do my best to sit that particular war out in whatever improvised "Gulch" I could dig up (like jbrenner above).
Unfortunately, I don't think a war between "left" and "right" will be over a single issue. It's likely to be far more conflated than that--and far more difficult to stay removed from.
I think of the 1861-65 US Civil War, and I think one could have escaped it to some degree by leaving friends and family, moving to remote western territories secured under Guadalupe-Hidalgo or the Louisiana Purchase--and take ones chances with the Indians. Trouble is there aren't any more Guadalupe-Hidalgo/Louisiana Purchase territories to move to these days--just plenty of "savages" (both active and potential, depending on circumstances).
At least when it comes to neighbors we can still choose which "savages" they are to be--to a degree.
Live free! Die well!