You cannot make a civil war movie and it not be political the British guy who thought California and Texas would ever be allies needs to get fired. IF HE HAD ANY BRAVERY HE WOULD HAVE MADE THE PRESIDENT TRUMP!

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    There is absolutely no way any of those other states would be part of something called the Florida Alliance

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    Civil War is an upcoming dystopian action film, written and directed by Alex Garland. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, Jesse Plemons, and Nick Offerman. The film follows a team of journalists who travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War, which has engulfed the entire nation.

    In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War that has engulfed the entire nation, between the American government and the separatist “Western Forces” led by Texas and California. The film documents the journalists struggling to survive during a time when the government has become a dystopian dictatorship and partisan extremist militias regularly commit war crimes.

    Texas and California together?! jesse-wtf

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    lol that these people still think it’s 1861 and that a modern American civil war would have these clean borders and clearly defined factions

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      There arent even any breakaway regions! West Virgina exists because of the civil war, and other parts of the South even resisted the Confederacy!

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    Texas would’ve immediately invaded every state in the “Florida alliance” and incorporated them

    California and Washington state would remain loyal, but Washington state would get jumped by the so-called “western forces”, and would need to be saved by California, turning Oregon into a bloody battlezone in the process

    Nevada would run to California to save itself from being eaten alive by the Dark Mormon Empire, who will sacrifice the entire population of Arizona to summon a massive daemon army to conquer Texas and California

    The Feds would maintain control of the Tide Water, but there would be a massive insurgency in rural areas

    Tennessee, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Nebraska, Georgia, and Oregon would become battlezones where the majority of the “conventional” fighting is done, practically every other state will see rural vs urban insurgencies

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    Imagining a better version of this movie based on the alt history in that WW2 game mod everyone likes.

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    i mean, i’m gonna watch the flick because i liked his vision for Annihilation and several of his other movies. but i don’t see how any florida breakaway project would not involve South Carolina, but would get… Oklahoma? or maybe it’s unfair to assume any coherence to some “first days of collapse” map, since state borders are imaginary and what such a map (one that only shows state borders) would really reflect is national guard movements, military bases, and power projection over de facto state capitals being extrapolated outward to historic borders. so basically, nonsense.

    like the SC/GA split bothers me, but Parris Island, SC is right there, so maybe there’s a logic obscured by this mosaic.

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    It’s dumb as hell. The only justification I can come up with they aligned as the only stand alone breakaways. A sort of interests align moment.