Posted on 06/04/2019 6:19:05 AM PDT by vannrox
> It will be like the Troubles in N. Ireland. No one is going to tolerate any type of mass organized armies roaming around, causing chaos. <
I think you’ve got it right. There will be no civil war in the foreseeable future, for the reasons I mentioned in my post #13.
But the Troubles, yes. If a few flag-waving conservatives would wander into the wrong neighborhood, bad things would happen. If a few antifa types would wander into the wrong neighborhood, bad things would happen.
And maybe somebody from group A would decide to throw a bomb through the window of Group B’s headquarters.
But huge militias maneuvering against each other? That’s just a fantasy, for now at least. In a hundred years, who knows?
Would they have the ability to close their doors?
6. People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology. Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
That’s why I left California...
Wasnt a hoax. The reason nothing happened was that the problem was addressed before hand. I was one of those addressing the problem.
What do you mean “hoax”
I have been in this bunker for 19 years.
Can I come out now???
Exactly right. Talk of CWII is as much a fantasty for some as desiring to live a post-apocalyptic society is for other.
The ill-fated Tea Party offers a good reference for what CWII would be like - a few loudmouths jostling to be in charge and raising money off the rubes.
As for analogies, about half the US today is happy as can be with the status quo. Their only complaint about government is they can’t buy beer with EBT and upgrade their Obamaphone to an S10.
“NPR is the propaganda wing for the DNC. “
And we pay for it.
As a career Info Tech person - Y@K forced us to fix all of our systems and give them a good over haul tune up that I feel the zenith of computer reliability was 1998-1999.
Things have been down hill ever since. Rapid Application Development methodologies result in systems that were not tested to consider all possible outcomes, hence they fail and people (user group) have grown to expect that machines die, re-boot, won’t down load, won’t let you enter correct data.
Cheap hardware has given us more storage and faster machines, but resulted in bloated software that runs slower than 20 years ago.
Y2K was not a hoax, but the possible negative outcomes of the design flaw of a 2 year date were significantly over blown and hyped by hardware, software & services vendors. The problem was always going to basically be that your 3-year report was not going to sort right. Or grabbing 3 years of data was going to struggle for a few years till the 1990s aged out and they have now, so we could go back to 2 year dates if we felt like it.
Y2K got me pretty good. When I went to reset the calendar in the computer, I mistakenly typed in 1900 instead of 2000. Within a few days I started getting spam from the Committee to Re-Elect Calvin Coolidge, porn shots of President Harding boinking his secret girlfriends, and investment advice from David Sarnoff.
I’d fix it, but the investment advice has been fantastic. I’m making money hand over fist, although I’m leveraged up to my eyeballs.
Which is why it is good to listen to it. So you know what they're thinking and can better defend against it.
And still, sometimes, our "Shift" keys play tricks on us :-)
A slow breakup...
Florida’s a Republican State - we should be able to limit democrats moving here. California’s a liberal State - they should have the right to restrict new Republicans moving to their State... After a white we have two countries...
Inflation of basic necessity prices should be on the list.
I wonder how democrats would feel if Trump switched NPR to ‘all conservative - all the time’... and put Rush Limbaugh in charge of programming. THEN DEMANDED ALL CITIZEN SUPPORT THE STATION FOR THE NEXT 40 YEARS.
Bump for later.
I was a Cobol programmer using punch cards that helped create the scare.
Agreed, I worked on Y2K, and the incredible HYPE about it was something of a hoax. People making millions off of fear mongering. While some banked millions, plenty of us worked behind the scenes to make sure sh*t didn't hit the fan.
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