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naraburns  nihil supernum  16d ago (text post)   26860 thread views

U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

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People keep talking to me about "civil war" and "post-election violence" and so on. Are any of you preparing for that in any particular way?

I can't really envision anybody messing with things in my inner-ring suburb, or my dumpy little house in particular, but who knows, I guess. I could sit on my porch with my shotgun but I'd just feel like a tool.

No. There might be a few damn-fool riots nearby if things get really bad but Texas cops will just crack skulls. Nobody gives two shits about my suburb and that includes the rioters, so at worst I just won’t go into certain areas for a day or two.

The far left has been strongly focusses on Gaza for the past year. It's not clear they have enough gas in the tank to gather mobs in the case of a Trump victory.

Focused on Gaza, and specifically blaming Harris for enabling Gaza. "If we push hard enough against her we'll get her to cut off support for Israel" was a gambit, and it failed, and now it'll be hard to admit it was just a gambit if she loses, even if her opponent was literally the guy who had the US recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

"Left-wing antifa riots in response to Harris win" was not on my bingo card...

I don't think anything is likely to happen tonight or tomorrow, assuming nothing massively and obviously wrong happens.

Risk might possibly go up significantly in the weeks and months after, depending on who is deemed to have won, by how much, etc.

People keep talking to me about "civil war"

Only if we're lucky.

No white person needs to be personally concerned, outside of what ought to be standard prep for a hurricane or blizzard, food and water and batteries and gas in your car and whatnot. We won't see significant violence, but I wouldn't be shocked by minor disruptions to supply chains or travel.

I live in a very politically homogenous state with lots of guns. I'm not concerned about any political violence in my area or civil war.

Yeah, if things get that bad, we can just save time and end it.

I can't really see it happening. The cabin-fever Extremely Online rage just isn't in the general pop like it was before; this has become boring and everyone is going through the motions in a timeline no one wanted. That's my vibe, anyways.

Nah.

The traditional practice is dumping $2000 on a tacticool AR before Kamala bans them. Whether or not she wins, you must then sell it by Christmas. I figured I'd skip those steps and just buy ammo/accessories after the election, once prices sag.

Ammo is probably more liquid and has less oversight as well.

I suspect there will be some "fiery but mostly peaceful protests" regardless of the outcome. I do not expect them to be any more serious than usual, though conditional on a Trump victory (which I doubt will be allowed to happen) I would avoid planning any DC trips for January.

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