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enjoy the downvotes. lemmy is apparently full of limp-wristed pacifists. oh well. let them learn the hard way what happens when you are too chicken shit to stand up for what's right.
I'm guessing you've never been in a civil war or looked up anything beyond the big battles they make you learn in high school?
The fact that we got out of the American Civil War without several follow on wars, dictators, and remote parts of the country deciding to leave by just ignoring the federal government is a fucking miracle first of all. But they've always been fought dirty. Right up there under religious wars. It's not the Army you need to worry about, it's your neighbor. The kid you grew up with who'll give your name to the militia to keep suspicion off of them. It's mobs armed with voter rolls burning anyone who registered with the other party too recently. It's bombs in schools and malls. It's people being arrested in the middle of the night and executed solely because each faction is afraid another faction managed to do something they didn't see. (And there are always multiple factions in modern civil wars.) It's the body of the only teacher who gave a damn turning up carved with the initials of a faction. Done of course by a different faction just to stir up animosity.
It's not about being a coward. It's about fighting in way that doesn't turn into a fucking horror show.