Donald Trump's hardcore supporters did not take it well on Thursday when Georgia Judge Scott McAfee issued a 14-page ruling reaffirming that the former president should stand trial on RICO charges for attempted 2020 election interference after his lawyers asked for yet another dismissal of the charg...

Edit: There’s a lot of people in the comment section who clearly didn’t read the article so let me clarify that no, this is not about Judge Aileen Cannon. Read. The. Damn. Article.

  • Tinsfur@lemmy.world
    22·
    8 months ago

    If or when some crazy yahoos “declare” a civil war. All those toy soldiers aka weekend warriors. You know the type who own 300 guns lives in a bomb shelter and has been praying for the world to end since 1979. Those folks with have to contend with not you or me per say. The will contend with the United States Military. The tuffest military and the most trained, and frankly who has the best toys in the world for killing people. Our military is well versed in urban and rural fighting techniques. Did i mention the also own a bunch of drones. Yeah im not to worried

    • paf0@lemmy.world
      201·
      8 months ago

      If they organize, they won’t even make it to the military, they will be quickly stopped by our militarized police force. I fear that this is going to end up with crazy people commiting random acts of terrorism.

      • skulblaka@startrek.website
        91·
        8 months ago

        Crazy people are already committing random acts of terrorism, remember when some Trumper took out an electrical substation about a year ago and left a couple dozen thousand people without heat or power in the dead of winter? All that to shut down a drag show (supposedly).

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        That’s honestly been their gameplan for years. Anders Breivik might’ve been the first to put it to widespread paper in his manifesto, but the whole idea of terror cells was something that right-wing militias have been wargaming since the 80s. Even when you get a bunch of terror incidents grouped REAL tight together (like the Pride parade situations we’ve had lately, which all seem to share MOs), they get written off as “just a bunch of dudes” or “lone wolves” and never get reported on as “well Jim and Tim and John and Tom are assumed to be part of a larger terror network” because saying “hey this seems likely to be a problem and we should be on the lookout” doesn’t sell papers the same way as “CRAZED LONE WOLF” does.

      • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
        11·
        8 months ago

        stopped by our militarized police force

        So, um, about that…

        random acts of terrorism

        Dude they’ve been doing this for so long; mass killings stopped being news.

    • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
      15·
      8 months ago

      I think it’s important to remember how many civilians we killed in Iraq trying to get the bad ones. Yes, the US military would put down an insurrection… I don’t know know how fast it would be, and I don’t know that they wouldn’t kill my kids when they drone strike the guy down the street…

    • suction@lemmy.world
      81·
      8 months ago

      In their pipe dreams (and their Chatapp groups or whatever), the US military will fight on their side. Oh boy are they in for a surprise.

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      41·
      8 months ago

      I’m hoping that the A24 movie Civil War is impactful on any future discussion of American Civil War 2.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
      12·
      8 months ago

      I wouldn’t count on the military being on a particular side, but I should point out that their record against illiterate dipshits who don’t understand wearing shoes is 0-2.

      Then again, their record on the rare instance they fight against fascists is 3-0, undefeated. And those wins were against the best the fasch had to offer, delivered pretty spectacularly.