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"... for the Weathermen, violent action was nothing short of necessary in a time of crisis, a last-ditch effort to grab the country’s attention. And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
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In 1960, nearly 50 percent of America’s population was under 18 years of age. This surplus of youth set the stage for a widespread revolt against the status quo: against previously upheld structures of racism, sexism and classism, against the violence of the Vietnam War and America’s interventions abroad. At college campuses throughout the country, anger against “the Establishment’s” practices turned to protest, both peaceful and violent. "
America turned on their T.V to see their dead white children laying on the ground at Kent State. America was divided by 1969 58% against the war in Vietnam ... there was marching, rioting, and mayhem, on the streets of our cities ... and you want to talk about today, people getting a tattoo? What are you smoking?
Fortunately, winter is right around the bend. Maybe you can hibernate for a couple of months and get away from all of the degenerate tattoo-wearing thugs in your area. One can hope.
In the 60's and '70s was all those hippies smoking weed, fornicating, and so on destroying the fabric of American society. The '80s was crack and murder and gang activity that saw all the juvenile detention centers constructed that today sit mostly empty because the sick depraved youth of today just aren't murdering enough to fill them up. Damn yutes today should commit more murders like the good old days.
OP must have had a sheltered life as a Boomer ... so yea, today must look crazy as they haven't the good ole days to compare it too ... America sleeps.
"... for the Weathermen, violent action was nothing short of necessary in a time of crisis, a last-ditch effort to grab the country’s attention. And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
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In 1960, nearly 50 percent of America’s population was under 18 years of age. This surplus of youth set the stage for a widespread revolt against the status quo: against previously upheld structures of racism, sexism and classism, against the violence of the Vietnam War and America’s interventions abroad. At college campuses throughout the country, anger against “the Establishment’s” practices turned to protest, both peaceful and violent. "
America turned on their T.V to see their dead white children laying on the ground at Kent State. America was divided by 1969 58% against the war in Vietnam ... there was marching, rioting, and mayhem, on the streets of our cities ... and you want to talk about today, people getting a tattoo? What are you smoking?
lol............the Weather Underground were horrifically out of place from mainstream America. Most people were a million light years away from that kind of thinking, much less life.
Now.........we're all REPRESENTING, baby!!
OP must have had a sheltered life as a Boomer ... so yea, today must look crazy as they haven't the good ole days to compare it too ... America sleeps.
Are you guy who just likes to say "Boomer this" and "Boomer that"???
Jesus.
The thing is, I disagree that small towns/communities are being destroyed. I lived in one before I moved to my current home. I also disagree that "thug culture", as you define it, is taking over society. Perhaps my area is still influenced a great deal by Southern hospitality and charm, but I don't find thug culture to be a significant factor in my area at all. It certainly is not in my city or my neighborhood, even though I don't live in an upscale area. Maybe I'm just an optimistic person, but I generally treat and am treated by those people I meet and interact with pleasantly. Perhaps other people see an old (69 year old) lady and accord me respect due to my age, but I also don't denigrate young people because they have tattoos and earbuds!
Young people dressed in degeneracy are perfectly nice people. But their purposeful destruction of their own body and submission to full market attention (ear buds, smartphones, etc.) is a symptom of a larger problem.
They can be good people but they have manifested themselves in a uniform manner based on marketing forces and a consumer social system.
The culture drives the "State" (and its action). The State can't drive the culture.
BTW, that's why he have Trump as president.
Because the manufacturing industry automated away thousands of people's jobs. Trump promised to get those jobs back for them ... he got the problem right, but the solution wrong.
Because the manufacturing industry automated away thousands of people's jobs. Trump promised to get those jobs back for them ... he got the problem right, but the solution wrong.
Trump's a vulgarian, and trailer-trash with money. He reflects our culture perfectly. (Just as Bill Clinton did).
That's what politics does. Reflect the culture.
(Obama was the Choom Ganger.....)
Tattoos, nose piercings, body distortions, makeup, chemical induced hair, along with tech gadgets like airpods.
This the performative thug life of middle class young people, not actual gangs.
Tech gadgets? Like the computer that you are typing on? You thug.
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so yea, today must look crazy as they haven't the good ole days to compare it too ... America sleeps.
