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 ...The Great Replacement Theory had reached a boiling point.

The release valve wouldn't be just one flash point that history books could point to like Fort Sumpter, the Bismarck, Archduke Ferdinand or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. 

No. Multiple flash points would happen here and there. Micro battles would occur in small enclaves until the 100th Monkey created a synchrony of flashpoints everywhere in Portland, Philly, Charleston, Houston, St Louis... 

all over the country #CivilWar.  

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 @8ceddfb0 The irony of The Great Replacement Theory in… Texas. 🤦🏽‍♀️​ Remember the Alamo, but totally forget that 

*Gestures vaguely at the entire US Southwest

aaallll this was Mexico…

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 @c626eb92 
Yah... 

My uncle who lived in Edinburg, Tx (it's about an hour north of the river) used to periodically say, "I didn't cross the border! The border crossed me!"

When I first asked my momma what he meant by that I learned that our families had been in the region for a couple hundred years.  Probably longer.

*thrusts hips forward*
Replace this!!!... gringos!