I replied to him with this:
"1. 37% is not an accounting or precision number - rather the intent is to hypothesize that the number is probably greater than 1% and less than 90%.
2. The fact that many Americans have lived and died since the last even is exactly the point. By his math, they all had a 63% of NOT experiencing a civil war.
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"1. 37% is not an accounting or precision number - rather the intent is to hypothesize that the number is probably greater than 1% and less than 90%.
2. The fact that many Americans have lived and died since the last even is exactly the point. By his math, they all had a 63% of NOT experiencing a civil war.
3. You would THINK that the gubmint at some level would step in, but as evident by Portland and Seattle and Kenosha, it clearly would require something extreme since those didn’t seem to move the needle."
To point 3, it would take a government that either doesn't see Portland and Seattle and Kenosha as a feature or stops seeing Portland and Seattle and Kenosha as a feature: "the worse, the better." I'm starting to feel like some kind of Mirror-universe Objectivist ("Read _Atlas Shrugged_: It explains all"), repeating over and over, "Read _The State and Revolution_: it explains all."
I replied to him with this:
"1. 37% is not an accounting or precision number - rather the intent is to hypothesize that the number is probably greater than 1% and less than 90%.
2. The fact that many Americans have lived and died since the last even is exactly the point. By his math, they all had a 63% of NOT experiencing a civil war.
3. You would THINK that the gubmint at some level would step in, but as evident by Portland and Seattle and Kenosha, it clearly would require something extreme since those didn’t seem to move the needle."
To point 3, it would take a government that either doesn't see Portland and Seattle and Kenosha as a feature or stops seeing Portland and Seattle and Kenosha as a feature: "the worse, the better." I'm starting to feel like some kind of Mirror-universe Objectivist ("Read _Atlas Shrugged_: It explains all"), repeating over and over, "Read _The State and Revolution_: it explains all."
Way too much from historical fiction is happening as we watch.