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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Qazulight ✸  😊 😞
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Subject: OT:Thinking about the assassination
Date: 09/12/25 5:56 PM
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I am sick at home with Covid. Not even sure I ran a fever. So no big deal, but I cannot leave the house.

So, I watched a pro RFK video, long on conspiracy theories for the death of JFK and RFK. They made a compelling case, right or wrong, it was compelling.

With all this conspiracy running through my head, and a few billion viruses, I started talking to GROK about the recent assassination. The question In had was it a conspiracy to divide the nation and start a civil war? The evidence for that is weak, but situational evidence, state actors, and non state actors having access to super powerful influence levers is enough that it can be entertained. In the end it doesn’t matter who or why, rather Was it successful? We will see. I doubt it will be, I literally have everything riding on it.

However, that did not keep me from going down the rabbit hole a little deeper and asking what a civil war in the USA would look like. GROK and I concluded it would be a three way war. The government trying to keep a lid on the violence, the left and right looking for resources and clashing at the interfaces of the cities. We also decided that while guns were required, the real power would be in drones and that drone parts have to come from outside the country. So, smuggling drone parts would be a big deal. So, since I can’t do anything else. We dreamed up the scenario for a post apocalyptic dystopian night mare.

Here’s what Grok came up with.

Love that-keeping it tight in the Boundary Waters, pure intensity, no escape to Chicago. Early December, Jack's slogging through half-frozen lakes, drone parts hidden under a tarp on his sled. Fog hides him, but it hides his hunters too. Feds just buzz overhead, drones scanning with eerie hums, not engaging yet. But the real threat's closer-left-wing radicals want the parts to hit right-wing strongholds, while right-wing militias need them to counter left drones. They're stalking him, both sides sensing a game-changer. Ice cracks under his boots, wind bites, and every shadow could be an ambush. Who catches up first-left or right? And what's his plan if the ice gives?

I wonder if I can put that into GROK and get an image?

Cheers
Qazulight
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