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Scootaloo

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9. If you do decide to "join in," I ask one favor...

Reply to upaloopa (Original post)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 03:06 PM

Jun 2012

Don't expect center stage. Don't ask for it, don't try to take it, just stay the fuck away from it. Accept that you are, ironically, "junior members," same as you would if you joined any other cause that didn't fall straight down on your shoulders. "I was alive in the 60's" isn't going to impress anyone, and frankly, the LAST thing we need are a bunch of deadheads trying to convince us that puppet shows are going to "bring down the system" or whatever.

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The last 40 years of conservative growth in power is a reaction to the 10 years called the "60's" [View all] upaloopa Jun 2012 OP

+infinity. The right is still fighting the counterculture of the 60s Ishoutandscream2 Jun 2012 #1

That actually makes a lot of sense. Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2012 #2

They gloss over how close this country came to revolution in the cities datasuspect Jun 2012 #3

But in the end us hippies are going to look like saints compared to the 2nd track who destroyed jwirr Jun 2012 #7

The right is still pissed off that they lost every fight throughout the 60's randr Jun 2012 #4

Hmm, interesting viewpoint. Quantess Jun 2012 #5

When people are relatively doing well they don't complain as much. Puzzledtraveller Jun 2012 #6

The Left forced them to admit to an unwinnable war in Vietnam. randome Jun 2012 #8

If you do decide to "join in," I ask one favor... Scootaloo Jun 2012 #9

I'm not your enemy. I may get screwed by the right for the next few years I have to live, upaloopa Jun 2012 #11

I think that, the massive popularity of FDR's social programs of the 30's and 40's... LanternWaste Jun 2012 #10

Of course it is... RoccoR5955 Jun 2012 #13

No...it is the consolidation and stupidification of media and information... Evasporque Jun 2012 #12

It's more like liberal thought pops up in a continually right-wing world. The programs of the 30's jtuck004 Jun 2012 #14

A very accurate analysis. hifiguy Jun 2012 #15