So is the US slipping into Civil War?

CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 873 points –

People keep talking about "Federalizing the National Guard" and now you've got other States pledging their NG to Texas in defiance of the Supreme Court (see image).

So is this what CW2 looks like?

P.S. I'm a Brit

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This has to be purposefully not getting media coverage so as to not incite panic/public support, right? When I saw the first ruling posted by Gov Abbott it seemed almost like a secessionist rant, but it’s NO WHERE to be seen in MSM

I'd say its not getting coverage because Texas talks about seceding almost every year and states have been using their national guard as political tools for years now.

When the national guard was sent to DC after the insurrection, Texas pulled their national guard back because of "poor treatment". I was there, there was no poor treatment. Texas (and several more states afterwards) used their national guard as a political tool to make the other side seem bad.

Texas doesn't talk about seceding. A tiny miniscile handful of people who live in Texas talk about it.

Very good point. I’d like to also think it’s not getting attention as to avoid prompting more idiots from joining in on the idiocy, but that’s likely me giving MSM too much credit.

Attention is what they want. They want drama. They want the illusion of high stakes. We shouldn't give them what they want.