re: 'Civil War' Trailer | Directed by Alex Garland | A24

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I could think of a few southwest US issues that could result in a Texas/California alliance.

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The one that immediately popped into my head was agriculture. California and Texas are two of the largest food/crop producers in the country along with the Mississippi River states.

A believable scenario would be some type of global famine where a tyrannical government tries to seize the farms, ranches and fisheries of the "producer" states on behalf of the "consumer" states. And ordinary people would actually go to war over food in an extreme crisis event. I mean if watching your kids starve to death is on the table, politics and social niceties go out the window.

But I'm sure that explanation is too obvious for Hollywood and they will go with some twisted political narrative that makes no sense but subtly reminds us that white, heterosexual men who don't live in Brooklyn or Santa Monica are the real problem here.

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”Three term president”

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Definitely not a reference to Dems claiming Trump would refuse to leave office

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President says the US military defeated California (ignoring Texas here because it makes no sense)

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Obviously Republican president against the commies in Cali.

Then they say he used air strikes on citizens—ah where have we heard that? Wasn’t it Biden telling us we need F15’s and not AR’s?

Commies get to Washington and the bad Republican who refused to leave office has his white supremacist goons asking what kind of American are the journalists?

Don’t forget the God bless America mockery while Trump calls in air strikes

This is so stupid it’s unbelievable, and you people think it’s high intelligence filmmaking

this looks like trash

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Yes. But you might be color blind.

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And I bet their name isn’t even Becky either. You got me.

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assuming the bad guys are christian white nationalists.

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i remember in the 70s when progressive/liberals were all about fighting the evil, totalitarian US government and those people were heroes.

i'm not going to be the least bit surprised when the president, FBI, CIA and military are the sympathetic ones in this movie and the big ol' bad farmers & country boys are the sadistic killers.

I have zero trust in this being anything other than the normal overly slanted BS weve seen for the past decade. White, religious Southerners will be portrayed as evil.

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Obviously Republican president against the commies in Cali. Then they say he used air strikes on citizens—ah where have we heard that? Wasn’t it Biden telling us we need F15’s and not AR’s? Commies get to Washington and the bad Republican who refused to leave office has his white supremacist goons asking what kind of American are the journalists? Don’t forget the God bless America mockery while Trump calls in air strikes

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You idiots love making shite up just to get yourselves worked up.

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I honestly would not be surprised to see Texas leave the Union before 2050. Right now, Texas would have the 8th largest economy in the world. They would create a tax haven for corporations to flee the regulatory nightmare that is the United States.

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Unh hunh. And the vast amount of government money that flows into Texas would stop. And companies would flee. And Texas would be a third world shithole within a year. If they are really lucky Mexico would annex them.

Take Texas would thrive if it broke away bullshite back to the poliboard.

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Exactly. There's a ton of conservatives and moderates here. People seem to struggle accepting that.

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we dont struggle to accept it. we just know that denominators matter, and there arent enough conservatives and moderates in california for it to make a difference in any way. your entire state is the deepest of deep blue and your cities are self-destructing. we're all watching it happen in real time. i'm sorry if you feel unacknowledged or something, but for all intents and purposes, your existence in california as a conservative or moderate is meaningless.

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fantastic. how many electoral votes did that get Trump

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Irrelevant to the point.