Why the far right believes a US civil war will start on Saturday

[G_j]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/01/far-right-conspiracy-theory-us-civil-war


If you are inside the “alt-right” information bubble, you might be preparing yourself for a civil war to commence this Saturday.

Since late September, the idea has been circulating on Facebook groups, subreddit message boards, Twitter, and leading conspiracy media outlets that on 4 November, anti-fascist groups will begin a violent insurrection.

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Some websites are telling their readers that antifa groups are “planning to kill every single Trump voter, Conservative and gun owner” this weekend. Hundreds of Facebook posts show how seriously consumers of such media are taking the news, and comments like “One more threat against white people and I swear to God I’m going to take a goddamn car and run over every fucking one of them” are not unrepresentative of the response.

But antifa groups have no plans to protest that day, and the small leftist groups who are planning protests have only dubious connections to the antifa movement. So what gives?

The whole thing rests on some very slender reeds, according to Spencer Sunshine, who recently wrote a report on the theories for the far right-monitoring group Political Research Associates. In the conspiracy underground on YouTube, he explains, there has been talk that “there was going to be a civil war” starting in November for some months.

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[el_bryanto]

1. I think the OS systems for the killer robots are still being worked on -

the targeting systems keep locking on to telephone poles which is destructive, but not as deadly as one would hope. Hopefully we will get that cleared up and be able to launch the civil war in the new year.

Bryant

[Canoe52]

8. Thank you, my first Chuckle of the day!

[FSogol]

2. Russian bots and trolls trying to whip them into a frenzy.

[DK504]

3. One more threat against white people and I swear to God Im going to take a goddamn car

.... and run over every fucking one of them”

So Facebook is allowing criminal intent. Threatening the public safety is another thing they couldn't give a shit about.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. Dammit. This is going to conflict with the annual War on Christmas.

And we haven't even finished mopping up the remaining insurgents from the annual War on Halloween.

[lapfog_1]

5. Dammit!

I missed the call up notice (again!). There was supposed to be a "missing person" by the name of Kiely Whitey on the milk cartons in the grocery store. That was the signal for me to join the millions of anti-fa and BLM communists to start the purge.

Not only did I miss it, but they are onto us now and they will be ready to mow us down at a moments notice because they will keep their car engines running all day!

This is worse than the Jade Helm 15 cuckup... someone forgot to check to see that EVERY Walmart was connected to the tunnel system and we missed a superstore in Hays, Kansas and that fucked up the entire show...

[Yavin4]

6. This Saturday?!?!?!? I have nothing to wear. n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Seriously, if they could have made it Sunday instead we could have worn this

[TlalocW]

7. And considering the mettle of the alt-right we've seen before

We might get one or two nutcases, and then everyone else will be like, "Do we go now? Maybe we should wait until we see other groups going. I mean, we've got XXX number of people, but some of the other groups have 10 times that. We should wait."

TlalocW

[Achilleaze]

9. republicans quaintly quivering to the FAKE-based FEAR

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[ghostsinthemachine]

10. Damn, right in the middle of the pot

Harvest.

[blueinredohio]

12. How would antifa know who voted for Trump and who didn't?

That's one of the more stupid things I have heard

[Binkie The Clown]

13. Why is it that all cults have their "end of the world" dates?

When will they realize that their predictions never happen?

[highplainsdem]

14. I've seen RWNJ tweets saying Walmart shooter Ostrem & LV shooter Paddock were antifa soldiers

starting the war against conservatives early.

Lots of idiots out there. Idiots, and Russian bots.