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"Satire is dead, and Irony is violating the corpse." -- realinterrobang, telephone converation, wee hours of 2017-11-04, after hearing about this article regarding where the "antifa civil war on 4 Nov" nonsense came from

From the article in question, "The alt-right fell for a Twitter joke and now it's total chaos", by Chris Caesar, 2017-10-31:

The Nov. 4 conspiracy centers on alleged antifa documents that call for violence aimed at fomenting a "civil war" between Trump supporters and antifa on Nov. 4. [...]

The InfoWars post links to a statement on the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, which indeed calls for demonstrations against Trump in numerous U.S. cities on Nov. 4. At no point, though, does it call for "violence" or "riots," let alone a "civil war," as Watson reported.

Watson seems to parse the statement's fleeting reference to a book published in 2005 by Communist Party Chairman Bob Avakian -- The Coming Civil War and Repolarization for Revolution in the Present Era -- as a sign that thousands of people are actually planning to start a civil war.

From there, things really flew off the rails. [...]