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    Thomas E. Ricks‏Verified account @tomricks1 10 Mar 2017

    Will we have a 2nd American civil war? An Army officer turned State Dept official estimates the chances at 60%http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/10/will-we-have-a-civil-war-a-sf-officer-turned-diplomat-estimates-chances-at-60-percent/ …

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      1. bhandel58‏ @bhandel58 10 Mar 2017
        Replying to @tomricks1 @ForeignPolicy

        sad and Putin is rejoicing

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      1. Captanne‏ @captanne 10 Mar 2017
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        Oh stop it. This country is doing fine. We've got 192 weeks to go of this fuckwittery. Don't trivialize slavery.

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      1. John King‏ @jjfking 10 Mar 2017
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        .@tomricks1 Coup and/or authoritarian oppression of opposition is more likely than civil war. No unified geographic or ethnic ID 4 civil war

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      1. Dark Laughter‏ @DarkLaughterTDB 10 Mar 2017
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        I look forward to a Ken Burns documentary about the dopey Oregon Militia vs. an amalgam of Seattle Protesters.

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      2. Dark Laughter‏ @DarkLaughterTDB 10 Mar 2017
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        Presumably it ends when one side runs out of snacks and the other is too conflicted to properly negotiate peace.

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      3. Dark Laughter‏ @DarkLaughterTDB 10 Mar 2017
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        Which, now that I think about it, actually isn't too far off from how the last American Civil War turned out.

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      2. Sharon Dennis‏ @sddphoto 10 Mar 2017
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        pic.twitter.com/xHGq2xTXeN

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      3. Nikevich‏ @nikevich 10 Mar 2017
        Replying to @sddphoto @tomricks1 @ForeignPolicy

        Yikes.

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      1. Sally Smith‏ @SallySmith_pdx 10 Mar 2017
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        Nice.

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      1. Andrew Barber‏ @andr3w_barber 10 Mar 2017
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        The Alt-right will rejoice w/ "we've got the guns", but the reality is that it's an information #civilwar. Brains not braun. @tomricks1

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