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CitadelGrad wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:51 pm Civil war. It's time for a reckoning.
Why do you think Biden banned 40% of the ammo available to US consumers two weeks ago?
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93henfan wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:14 pm
CitadelGrad wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:51 pm Civil war. It's time for a reckoning.
Why do you think Biden banned 40% of the ammo available to US consumers two weeks ago?
Taliban has tons of ammo these days...
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CitadelGrad wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:51 pm Civil war. It's time for a reckoning.
Where’s the Mason-Dixon line? Does it make a loop around Idaho and cut Western Montana from Eastern Montana with loops along the I-90 corridor in Eastern WA and 195 to Pullman and Moscow?

And what reckoning? Do we pull all Federal assets from the rebel states?

Does your side have a statue repairman?
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kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:40 am
CitadelGrad wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:51 pm Civil war. It's time for a reckoning.
Where’s the Mason-Dixon line? Does it make a loop around Idaho and cut Western Montana from Eastern Montana with loops along the I-90 corridor in Eastern WA and 195 to Pullman and Moscow?

And what reckoning? Do we pull all Federal assets from the rebel states?

Does your side have a statue repairman?
The next Civil War won’t be state vs. state. It will be tribe vs. tribe. :twocents:
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Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:42 am
kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:40 am

Where’s the Mason-Dixon line? Does it make a loop around Idaho and cut Western Montana from Eastern Montana with loops along the I-90 corridor in Eastern WA and 195 to Pullman and Moscow?

And what reckoning? Do we pull all Federal assets from the rebel states?

Does your side have a statue repairman?
The next Civil War won’t be state vs. state. It will be tribe vs. tribe. :twocents:
I cold civil war is already happening. It’s idiot vs. idiot.
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Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:42 am
kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:40 am

Where’s the Mason-Dixon line? Does it make a loop around Idaho and cut Western Montana from Eastern Montana with loops along the I-90 corridor in Eastern WA and 195 to Pullman and Moscow?

And what reckoning? Do we pull all Federal assets from the rebel states?

Does your side have a statue repairman?
The next Civil War won’t be state vs. state. It will be tribe vs. tribe. :twocents:
Gonna be a bloodbath. Half my family is in the other tribe. And they don’t have any guns.
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AZGrizFan wrote:
Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:42 am The next Civil War won’t be state vs. state. It will be tribe vs. tribe. :twocents:
Gonna be a bloodbath. Half my family is in the other tribe. And they don’t have any guns.
I hope it doesn't ever get that far.
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AZGrizFan wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:45 am
Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:42 am

The next Civil War won’t be state vs. state. It will be tribe vs. tribe. :twocents:
Gonna be a bloodbath. Half my family is in the other tribe. And they don’t have any guns.
Sucks to be them!
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AZGrizFan wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:45 am
Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:42 am

The next Civil War won’t be state vs. state. It will be tribe vs. tribe. :twocents:
Gonna be a bloodbath. Half my family is in the other tribe. And they don’t have any guns.
Which tribe?
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AZ killing his family to own the libs.

I wish I didn't jest about the civil war thing, or this entire thread really.

I'm echoing people who have seen the brutality of war (soldiers, immigrants, own family), but the sheer waste of human life and absolute misery isn't something you want at your front door for all the love or money in the world. Look around you....you want to bring Syria, Iraq, Beirut, or even a tempered conflict like the Troubles to your loved ones, your children, your family?

You want to destroy everything we've built, ruin the economy, collapse the dollar, bring in foreign troops to our land?

For Americans who don't know a day of real suffering, civil war isn't akin to some sport. It'll be years of asymmetrical warfare complete with death and destruction of all things in its way.
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∞∞∞ wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:20 am AZ killing his family to own the libs.

I wish I didn't jest about the civil war thing, or this entire thread really.

I'm echoing people who have seen the brutality of war (soldiers, immigrants, own family), but the sheer waste of human life and absolute misery isn't something you want at your front door for all the love or money in the world. Look around you....you want to bring Syria, Iraq, Beirut, or even a tempered conflict like the Troubles to your loved ones, your children, your family?

You want to destroy everything we've built, ruin the economy, collapse the dollar, bring in foreign troops to our land?

For Americans who don't know a day of real suffering, civil war isn't akin to some sport. It'll be years of asymmetrical warfare complete with death and destruction of all things in its way.
Hyperbole much? No doubt, war is absolutely devastating, but we aren't anywhere in the vicinity of a real civil war in this country. A few hundred mostly unarmed mouth breathers walking around the Capitol Building taking pictures isn't a civil war. And those were the super-motivated types as well. Jeopardy not being able to pick a permanent host isn't the sign of the apocalypse either. I'm not counting on a real civil war in this country in my lifetime, and I'm still on the younger side of 50 right now.
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kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:42 am
AZGrizFan wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:45 am

Gonna be a bloodbath. Half my family is in the other tribe. And they don’t have any guns.
Which tribe?
The William and Mary tribe of course. Ever see what a bobcat does to a griffin? Just messy. :ohno:

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Winterborn wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:41 am
kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:42 am

Which tribe?
The William and Mary tribe of course. Ever see what a bobcat does to a griffin? Just messy. :ohno:

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Or the Cleveland Indians.
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Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:45 am
Winterborn wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:41 am

The William and Mary tribe of course. Ever see what a bobcat does to a griffin? Just messy. :ohno:

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Or the Cleveland Indians.
Or 10,000 Maniacs.

(They had an album titled “In my Tribe”.
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GannonFan wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:29 am Jeopardy not being able to pick a permanent host isn't the sign of the apocalypse either.
Speak for yourself, fuckface.
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Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:45 am
Winterborn wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:41 am

The William and Mary tribe of course. Ever see what a bobcat does to a griffin? Just messy. :ohno:

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Or the Cleveland Indians.
W&M popped in my head first as the last time I could remember the Indianans taking a mauling was in 2002 to the Twins.
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kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:56 am
Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:45 am

Or the Cleveland Indians.
Or 10,000 Maniacs.

(They had an album titled “In my Tribe”.
Only song I know by them is Because the Night. :chair:
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∞∞∞ wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:20 am AZ killing his family to own the libs.

I wish I didn't jest about the civil war thing, or this entire thread really.

I'm echoing people who have seen the brutality of war (soldiers, immigrants, own family), but the sheer waste of human life and absolute misery isn't something you want at your front door for all the love or money in the world. Look around you....you want to bring Syria, Iraq, Beirut, or even a tempered conflict like the Troubles to your loved ones, your children, your family?

You want to destroy everything we've built, ruin the economy, collapse the dollar, bring in foreign troops to our land?

For Americans who don't know a day of real suffering, civil war isn't akin to some sport. It'll be years of asymmetrical warfare complete with death and destruction of all things in its way.
:lol: Dude just called a 30 year conflict with 50,000 causalities, "tempered."
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Ibanez wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:48 pm
∞∞∞ wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:20 am AZ killing his family to own the libs.

I wish I didn't jest about the civil war thing, or this entire thread really.

I'm echoing people who have seen the brutality of war (soldiers, immigrants, own family), but the sheer waste of human life and absolute misery isn't something you want at your front door for all the love or money in the world. Look around you....you want to bring Syria, Iraq, Beirut, or even a tempered conflict like the Troubles to your loved ones, your children, your family?

You want to destroy everything we've built, ruin the economy, collapse the dollar, bring in foreign troops to our land?

For Americans who don't know a day of real suffering, civil war isn't akin to some sport. It'll be years of asymmetrical warfare complete with death and destruction of all things in its way.
:lol: Dude just called a 30 year conflict with 50,000 causalities, "tempered."
I guess he’s not Sean O’Tripz, then.
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Ibanez wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:48 pm
∞∞∞ wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:20 am AZ killing his family to own the libs.

I wish I didn't jest about the civil war thing, or this entire thread really.

I'm echoing people who have seen the brutality of war (soldiers, immigrants, own family), but the sheer waste of human life and absolute misery isn't something you want at your front door for all the love or money in the world. Look around you....you want to bring Syria, Iraq, Beirut, or even a tempered conflict like the Troubles to your loved ones, your children, your family?

You want to destroy everything we've built, ruin the economy, collapse the dollar, bring in foreign troops to our land?

For Americans who don't know a day of real suffering, civil war isn't akin to some sport. It'll be years of asymmetrical warfare complete with death and destruction of all things in its way.
:lol: Dude just called a 30 year conflict with 50,000 causalities, "tempered."
By comparison to some it was.

We tend to pick and choose the value of life on a whim.

EG’s: we are extremely concerned about the value of afghani lives and the soldiers killed recently.

Blue lives matter.
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Ivytalk wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:54 pm
Ibanez wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:48 pm
:lol: Dude just called a 30 year conflict with 50,000 causalities, "tempered."
I guess he’s not Sean O’Tripz, then.
Trips O 'Callahan, he is not.
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kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:57 pm
Ibanez wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:48 pm
:lol: Dude just called a 30 year conflict with 50,000 causalities, "tempered."
By comparison to some it was.

We tend to pick and choose the value of life on a whim.

EG’s: we are extremely concerned about the value of afghani lives and the soldiers killed recently.

Blue lives matter.
I'm sorry. I don't see how a 30 year irregular war, that was preceded by the Home Rule Crisis and War for Irish Independence in the early 20th century (essentially before and after the partition of Ireland), not to mention the CENTURIES of colonization, hunger, murder, strife was just tempered. You can just about trace the entire conflict back to the Acts of Union of 1800.


The Troubles were merely the "endgame."
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Ibanez wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:04 pm
kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:57 pm

By comparison to some it was.

We tend to pick and choose the value of life on a whim.

EG’s: we are extremely concerned about the value of afghani lives and the soldiers killed recently.

Blue lives matter.
I'm sorry. I don't see how a 30 year irregular war, that was preceded by the Home Rule Crisis and War for Irish Independence in the early 20th century (essentially before and after the partition of Ireland), not to mention the CENTURIES of colonization, hunger, murder, strife was just tempered. You can just about trace the entire conflict back to the Acts of Union of 1800.


The Troubles were merely the "endgame."
I always thought U.S. politicians should pay more attention to the history and background on why it all started and continued to fester. :coffee:
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Winterborn wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:08 pm
Ibanez wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:04 pm
I'm sorry. I don't see how a 30 year irregular war, that was preceded by the Home Rule Crisis and War for Irish Independence in the early 20th century (essentially before and after the partition of Ireland), not to mention the CENTURIES of colonization, hunger, murder, strife was just tempered. You can just about trace the entire conflict back to the Acts of Union of 1800.


The Troubles were merely the "endgame."
I always thought U.S. politicians should pay more attention to the history and background on why it all started and continued to fester. :coffee:
That would require effort...and intelligence.

Honestly - I've not read enough about the subject to speak with a hint..a modicum of authority (as much as is required on Cs.com, at least. ) but from I have read and learned...I wouldn't call IRA bombings tempered. Also - just because the Troubles ended in the 1990s, doesn't mean the conflicts are over. Just about each year from 1998 (99?) there have been multiple incidents.

Calling The Troubles "tempered" is like calling The Terror a minor event - it was THAT bad...you know.
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Ibanez wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:04 pm
kalm wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:57 pm

By comparison to some it was.

We tend to pick and choose the value of life on a whim.

EG’s: we are extremely concerned about the value of afghani lives and the soldiers killed recently.

Blue lives matter.
I'm sorry. I don't see how a 30 year irregular war, that was preceded by the Home Rule Crisis and War for Irish Independence in the early 20th century (essentially before and after the partition of Ireland), not to mention the CENTURIES of colonization, hunger, murder, strife was just tempered. You can just about trace the entire conflict back to the Acts of Union of 1800.


The Troubles were merely the "endgame."
Don't they go back even further than that? I thought QE1 was pretty influential in shaping modern day Northern Ireland. That's back to at least 1580. And frankly she wasn't the first to get involved there.
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