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Moostache

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18. Pick which one of these YOU know people who would die for...
Mon Aug 5, 2024, 11:58 AM
Aug 2024

1) The right to follow a woman's menstrual cycle every month, with government oversight (but NO PRENATAL CARE)
2) The right to yell slurs at minorities - take your pick: a) LGBTQ, b) racial, c) ageist, d) ethnicity, e) sexual preferences, or f) anyone not exactly like me (whatever THAT may be)
3) The right to force people into my religion (Constitution be damned!)
4) The right to deny people healthcare - get sick, die fast dammit - doncha know???
5) The right to allow billionaires to pay less taxes than a janitor or repairman or police/fire/EMTs?
6) The right to chant "lock up" (where 'her' is pretty much any woman with ambition, talent and the will to fight)
7) The right to refuse to serve people you yelled slurs at in #2?
8) The right to rig elections instead of win them?
9) The right to deport people at will or barring that just round them up and put them in camps? *VERY popular with the skinhead crowd*

Civil War means all out warfare.
Urban guerillas taking out water supplies and electrical grids.
Transportation between states (and thus trade) shut down due to infrastructure dammage, bandits and thieves, and targeting of supply lines.
Starvation, disease, malnutrition and deprivation, and refugees on a scale NEVER seen in North America (well at least not unless you were indigenous and being marched on the Trail of Tears).

They think that "we have the guns and the 'tough guys' that will win the war"...same thing the Germans thought in WWI and everyone else that believed "over the top boys" was a "strategy". Like Mike Tyson said - "Everyone has a plan until you hit them in the mouth."

The idea that a shooting civil war is nigh is simple minded and about what I would expect from people who saw "Rambo" in 1985 and thought he single-handedly defeated the Vietnamese and Russians and won the Cold War...or any of the other similar films with Norris or Stallone or Schwarzenegger prior to the "expendables" films in recent years.

If those are the animating beliefs that these people want to fight to the death for, well all I can say is 'good luck with that' - especially after the food runs out and the supply lines to the hinterlands dry up and nothing is available in those nice big (empty of infrastructure and people) red states.

The single biggest difference in 2024 America is the camp of people who want to take away rights and protections from all and the camp of people who WANT "project 2025" and to take AWAY those same rights. I have chosen my side. I AM willing to die for a country that protects those things and the rights of ALL citizens to live in peace and free from systemic persecution or worse.

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Well, that may be the ONE I'd like to deport... hlthe2b Aug 2024 #1
Is he a citizen??? BonnieJW Aug 2024 #17
Yes, unfortunately.... One can dream, however. hlthe2b Aug 2024 #19
Dump him in the basket of deplorables. Sedition? Evolve Dammit Aug 2024 #26
I see him as enemy, both foreign and domestic Seinan Sensei Aug 2024 #23
So do I. Like Trump, a Putin asset. B.See Aug 2024 #39
K & R.............................. Lovie777 Aug 2024 #2
When I envision musk, I always see him in a Nazi uniform Clouds Passing Aug 2024 #3
Yup. Bomb throwing terrorist. He is dangerous. travelingthrulife Aug 2024 #4
I thought you meant Murdoch displacedvermoter Aug 2024 #5
He's much more subtle... Dennis Donovan Aug 2024 #7
Fox and the Post have been saying it pretty displacedvermoter Aug 2024 #13
Confiscate his money. Kid Berwyn Aug 2024 #6
...and nationalize SpaceX! n/t Dennis Donovan Aug 2024 #8
Absolutely. Same day. Kid Berwyn Aug 2024 #10
Not even. He has a BA (BA) in physics and BS in economics. harumph Aug 2024 #11
A BA in physics? So what? Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #42
Yes, that was my point. A BA in physics is nothing. harumph Aug 2024 #43
I wonder what the ratio... jmowreader Aug 2024 #9
Musk turned Democrats off Teslas at a critical time. Here's what they bought instead VBNMW Aug 2024 #38
And Peter Thiel, too. Although Musk fits the Bond villain stereotype surfered Aug 2024 #12
What a jerk! Jean Genie Aug 2024 #14
Citizens Arrest on sight perhaps warranted? Brainfodder Aug 2024 #15
This is what the losing side says when they know they're losing Johnny2X2X Aug 2024 #16
Pick which one of these YOU know people who would die for... Moostache Aug 2024 #18
Rec +100000 (should be its own OP) n/t Justice matters. Aug 2024 #32
I think they might try to do a civil war when Trump loses. mucholderthandirt Aug 2024 #46
I reported that terrorist to the Federal Elections Commission and the CA Elections Board. usonian Aug 2024 #20
EVOKE his citizenship and deport him NOW. He has a private space company. Stupid move in US to allow it NoSheep Aug 2024 #21
And you know this guy has one of those underground doomsday fortresses to improve his chances Baitball Blogger Aug 2024 #22
Stupid fucker Warpy Aug 2024 #24
Throw him out WOLFMAN87 Aug 2024 #25
Throw him out WOLFMAN87 Aug 2024 #27
Be careful what you wish for El Douche. Evolve Dammit Aug 2024 #28
"I am inevitable." - Thanos. Didn't work out well for him, and... CapnSteve Aug 2024 #29
When they spout this, I doubt they think that they will personally pick up a gun ouija Aug 2024 #30
I think maybe Mr. Musk Tweedy Aug 2024 #31
Know what else is inevitable? BaronChocula Aug 2024 #33
I can't believe I'm being asked if there will be a civil war hibbing Aug 2024 #34
Aside from deporting that Musk immigrant Farmer-Rick Aug 2024 #35
We really need to deport Linda ladeewolf Aug 2024 #36
The same outcome is inevitable too. czarjak Aug 2024 #37
I'm no Elon Musk fan, but I am putting his tweet from Twitter (currently known as X) ... aggiesal Aug 2024 #40
Yeah it's Faux pas Aug 2024 #41
BRING IT ON Skittles Aug 2024 #44
Maybe we should strip the nazi of his citizenship and deport him back to Canada struggle4progress Aug 2024 #45
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