Status Updates From How Civil Wars Start: And H...

I always forget how much social media had to effect on revolutionary messaging throughout the 2010s before we learned about the atrocities of Lake Cambridge analytics and Mark Zuckerberg’s actions in Myanmar. The authors argument that social media now act as an accelerate I believe to be through as related to the post Covid world where many people got radicalized on social media about the vaccine.

The authors argue that when groups feel like they’re losing political power, becoming organized helps contribute to civil wars. It made me think about how individuals in the MAGA political movement felt like they were losing their political status due to the influx of more liberal voters, thus creating the foundation for the more extreme members that are arguing for civil war and the destruction of democracy.

Very interesting to see how the author uses the Yugoslavia Civil War as a way to point towards factionalism to be one of the leading sources of civil wars. Reflecting on the current American geopolitical situation and comparing it to Yugoslavia, there can be some parallels drawn between political factualism and extreme ism in those groups. found chapter 2 to be very interesting.

I forgot the before 2020 election a Michigan Militia tried to arrest the governor for treason because of the covid lockdowns. That got me hooked into the book, it will be interesting to understand argument’s on how civil wars start and relate that back to the Trump regime