Also who’s your pick for winner of the arbitrary 4-way american civil war? Personally I’m hoping for the West, but I’m worried Northeast might sneak victory in when nobody’s looking

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    Southerners may have a lot of guns, but they have no where to train for war except indoor gun ranges. Whereas western blue states have a ton of public land, but most of the people there absolutely despise guns despite wanting the police and military to arrest every republican

    I mean, historically most civil wars didn’t involve civilians training ahead of time. But most countries that had civil wars in the modern day weren’t as rich and privileged as Americans. A modern day american civil war will look less like Yugolavia and more like the Roof Koreans in the LA Riots - that is, a bunch of assholes shooting each other because they lack the communication and proper training (despite their ebic skills in the korean war). The exception being the mall cops that actually have time and money to “train” in the woods all day with their militias.

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      Seeing that map reminds me of a post I read some time ago about a “libertararian” who moved from California to Texas to scape the “oppressive” state government to a land of free, just to find out there were no public parks where to camp, and that that was his favorite hobbie and now they “understood” why some government is needed and was thinking on going back to California.

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      Southerners may have a lot of guns, but they have no where to train for war except indoor gun ranges.

      As if the problem is gun handling and not the fact the average chud couldn’t run for 2 miles without having a heart attack. Seriously I would not expect the average American to go through a civil war scenario without clogging up hospitals with all sorts of heart problems and general consequences of an extremely sedentary lifestyle.

      Maybe you saw the recent pictures of those old Ukrainian soldiers? People dunk on them looking like tired/out of shape but imo they are probably in better physical condition than like half of these chuds.