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This photo will launch a thousand chuds into the streets.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What was worse? Seriously, what? Even during secession, the president wasn’t the one causing the rift.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Uh, civil war & Lincoln assassination?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The Civil War... The bloodiest war in American history; brother fighting against brother.

All other American wars combined, through the Korean War, claimed fewer lives than the Civil War alone. In World War II, 30 out of every 10,000 men in uniform perished. Civil War combat was six times as deadly, killing 182 per 10,000.

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2001/05/the-deadliest-war-html

...for a little context.

I hope that ends up being worse than this. I'm not sure it will be, but even if it is, the Civil War is a very high watermark. Things can get very very very VERY BAD without reaching that point. We don't want to get anywhere close to that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I simply chose the most obvious episode. There are others that were worse than our current time. We haven’t even topped the JFK/RFK/MLK era.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

None of those had the president selling classified documents to the enemy countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Last I checked we aren’t a cunt hair’s breadth from nuclear war with Russia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

All of the 80's were like that, the cold war

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Mostly cause I kinda doubt the Russian have fully operational nukes. The minutemen missiles are bitch to maintain with a military budget of fuck you. Meanwhile the Russians cant even build a proper modern MBT thats not based off of old Soviet tanks, either the missiles or warheads are broken is my bet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would say things were worse under Nixon, Reagan, and Bush only because the majority of the population was onboard with their authoritarianism. In those days we had the beginning of the war on drugs, mass incarcerations, US backed death squads, flooding the cities with crack, trading arms for hostages, torture, begging of forever wars...

The population has become significantly more leftwing over the last 20 years. Even if Trump gains power again, our numbers are large enough that everything they want to do will be a brutal fight against the majority

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I get that Reagan laid the foundation for what became MAGA Republican Party, but was it really worse than trying a coup d’etΓ t to stay in power?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He didn't need to, which I think is worse. I would rather live in the timeline where Trump had to coup than the timeline where he won 49 states for reelection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I mean, you might head for a world where he staged a coup and then got reelected

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No. Well not for us at least. The rest of the world on the other hand...