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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 May 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Megan McArdle

    I don't want to to dunk on this amusing tweet too much but it has to be noted that this is the exact same logic that led Southerners to think secession would work in 1861: that North wouldn't fight because too soft, effeminate, cut off from blood & soil etchttps://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1000745664102486016 …

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    Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
    I am struggling to imagine what sort of army could be fielded by the "twee cosmopolitan elite" side of America's culture war. https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1000743583161507841 …
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 May 2018
        Replying to @MattBruenig

        Yeah,, that was also a conceptual error in 1861. One side thought that the values of chivalry outweighed railroads and armaments.

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      1. Bram De Buyser‏ @chton 27 May 2018
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        The 'twee cosmopolitan elite' already fielded antifa supersoldiers, right? Or was that bullshit too, then? :p

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      1. Sarah Grynpas‏ @SarahGrynpas 27 May 2018
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        So it's a long-standing stereotype and exactly wrong. Specialisation = more people in technical jobs = middle-class lifestyle = money and brains and experience in large-scale projects = winning wars. Plus now rich people are more likely to be in better shape and health.

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      1. 忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬‏ @delmoi 27 May 2018
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        All of these people just assume that the US military's just going to vanish somehow and it's just going to come down to random right-wingers versus random left-wingers in the guns they already possess. Whichever "side" controls military at the time will win.

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      2. Pradheep J. Shanker‏ @Neoavatara 27 May 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The North was better armed than the South though, and more populous. That isn't true of the Red/Blue divide.

        5 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. 忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬‏ @delmoi 27 May 2018
        Replying to @Neoavatara @HeerJeet

        Yes it is. By the way, I'm not sure I'd you know this but you can actually manufacture new guns. You dont have to fight a war with whatever weapons you have on hand when you start.

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      2. Tico’s Tacos taste tester‏ @chadstanton 27 May 2018
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        I just want to hear how Black and Brown people are somehow sitting out of the “Return of the Confederacy” when we for damn sure didn’t sit out of the first Civil War.

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      3. GenX Jamerican  🇯🇲 🇺🇸‏ @genxjamerican 27 May 2018
        Replying to @chadstanton @HeerJeet

        Say that louder for the folks in the back please sir.

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      1. Josh Rowley‏ @joshmrowley 27 May 2018
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        A civil war is a horrifying thought.

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