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[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Except this is also how the "democracy" that is modern day Russia was created. Everything that's happened in the U.S. since ~2012 that has been driving us to the brink of collapse by furthering the divide between left and right has been eerily similar.

Psychological Inoculation and Astroturfing: Preparing for exploitation of U.S. secession movements

A lot of people don't know this, bc it's not exactly clear what they were doing there, but coincidentally the Heritage Foundation also seemed to play a role in the creation of the first free market in the earliest days of post-soviet Russia.

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

thank you for not giving in to their rhetoric and letting this point die.

i get endless downvotes on all social media anytime i say a civil war is the absolute fucking worst outcome of any of the current trends.

guess people are just out for blood rn. i wouldn’t make it sound so innocent, tho. why are people out for blood? lots of answers, none satisfying enough.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Take an up vote from me. Civil wars nearly always end in tragedy beyond the imaginations of those who start them.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

I believe the most obvious is they benefit (or at least believe they will benefit) from that outcome.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago

The Heritage Foundation is a society of monarchists. It's supported by oligarchs who want to be king to push the world towards that agenda, and such oligarchs routinely infuse it with capital.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

…furthering the divide between right and extreme right has been eerily similar.

Fixed that for you.