Toxic rhetoric, including calls for ‘civil war’ and retribution, surges after Charlie Kirk killing

Straight, white, cis republicans want to have a civil war with other straight, white, cis republicans?

I guarantee it's the right wing morons that don't realize it was a right wing moron who killed the right wing moron

I got to wonder about articles like this. The mainstream media thrives on manufacturing drama, so if they can find even a sniff of an increase in online messaging, they're going to post stories like this. And the problem they face is that basically reality disagrees with their prediction.

First, the violent right was already violent. So, what exactly are they telling us is going to happen? Are they going to say that people will shoot up schools or storm the capital or murder politicians? Those already happened. What exactly are they predicting? That's going to be worse than what we already have? Of course they won't tell us, because they're trying to cell slop.

A second, I don't think violent gun nuts actually give a s*** about the dead guy. They might put his name on a poster and use it for a few memes or something, but they didn't really care about him, because they basically lack empathy for other human beings in general. He can't really be a martyr if no one gives a f*** that he's dead.

Of course, it's also possible that they're correct, that the militant right are just looking for an excuse to go kill more people, and this is the one they're going to jump on. But then it wouldn't really matter what happened, if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. They want an excuse to go kill minorities, they're going to find one.

Wait until they find out a far-right guy killed him. It seems like a lot of evidence is building on that front today.

I am curious what the logistics of a civil war would be, when the dividing issue is right wing vs left wing.

Would it be state vs state? City vs city? Neighbour vs neighbour?

I imagine a lot of people in red and blue cities would need to pack up and get the fuck out of Dodge if they are in a city that's predominately the other side. Or even the state itself.

Would cities mobilize their militarized police forces or would the police revolt in blue cities since they are mostly right wingers?

It would probably be the federal government, probably the military, and probably the police forces, plus the wing citizens vs just the left wing citizens. I don't see that ending well, since left wing citizens aren't as likely to have guns either.