HR 5717 Megathread

Yes, that is extremely wrong. Like, both incredibly shortsighted and potentially treasonous.

All the boogaloo fantasizers out there dont realize that the rest of the world doesn’t stop if that type of event were to happen.

America has policed the world since WW2... if we descended into chaos, there would be a massive geopolitical power vacuum. China would likely become the new global superpower, why would they let the US regain it’s former glory... ever? They wouldn’t. We would be unable to maintain our alliances, western European countries would be in danger almost immediately.

Additionally, we’ve made a lot of enemies over the past 80 years... do you think they would all just hang back and chill out while our country worked to get its shit back together over the course of years, possibly a decade or more? America’s adversaries could want nothing more than for us to descend into chaos... Russia specifically has been trying to foment civil war II since 1997.
( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics ). I think its incredibly naïve to think they wouldn’t take advantage of the situation and make sure we never got our shit together.

Finally, even without all the geopolitical considerations, millions upon millions of Americans would die as supply lines failed, cities went dark and our country failed. Store shelves are empty within 3 days after that happens, tap water becomes undrinkable in weeks. Also, there is nothing that says we would necessarily ever come back together again as a country. Maybe we would reform as a number smaller countries with smaller economies, but they would be certainly be smaller both separately and aggregately than the current US. You know what happens to small countries? They get fucked with constantly by the superpowers.

Whatever you’re picturing here, its incredibly far from what civil wars and uprisings actually look like in the modern day. They are horrific and create opportunities for any group with might and manpower to take control. To whatever degree you currently feel you’re ‘oppressed’, please know that it can get a whole lot worse.

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