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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Let's start a war. Start a nuclear war.
 
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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

 Being worked to death over the course of 20 years is pretty good compared to how people typically get worked to death.

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

 The whole "people helping each other in crisis" premise applies to literally any other country, and it's baffling why anyone would think that having millions of firearms in the background would somehow make post apocalyptic America more stable. It doesn't take much to touch off a war between armed militias, which in the American context is just a fancy word for gangs of white people.

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Duscat posted:

rural areas in all developed nations have tons of guns, it's part of rural life, they all hunt and kill pests

what most of them don't have is the foundational racism that the loudest 2nd amendment folks in the us share, that long-standing desire to kill a major section of your own fellow citizens

when nuclear war happens, america is gonna fall a lot deeper than the enlightened states that can work together as a society

Let's say that the original premise is right, and all these militias keep the peace for a while. What you end up getting are dozens of individual polities that are all armed to the teeth and inherently distrustful of each other. Like all states are, and especially when nobody could communicate instantaneously across the globe.

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