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IzzaNuDay

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6. you never know, St. Upid just might leverage another draft

Reply to CareyOn (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 19, 2025, 02:34 PM

Mar 19

Like he wants to take over Canada, Greenland and Panama. He’ll need more young bodies to salute and execute!

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In the 60's it was the young folks protesting [View all] kacekwl Mar 19 OP

They need motivation. Omnipresent Mar 19 #1

Hello ??They are protesting all over US and world - the recent slaughter of kids in Gaza womanofthehills Mar 19 #32

Well, actually, it was a very small minority of young folks who did that. MineralMan Mar 19 #2

Perhaps Boomers were just unique when it came to their youth protesting in mass Polybius Mar 19 #3

Silent Generation didn't protest? TheProle Mar 19 #13

You are correct of course, but I was referring to the youth Polybius Mar 19 #14

Boomers were born from 1946 to 1964. Mariana Mar 19 #22

Nevertheless TheProle Mar 19 #31

Good point Polybius Mar 19 #34

True, but protests continued until 1972, RazorbackExpat Mar 20 #40

The kids out protesting yesterday & today womanofthehills Mar 19 #33

Two possible factors - the draft and a shared culture karynnj Mar 20 #43

In the 60's the draft was a huge motivator for turning out protesters. CareyOn Mar 19 #4

There was also the Freedom Summer when many rode to the south to get African Americans to register question everything Mar 19 #5

you never know, St. Upid just might leverage another draft IzzaNuDay Mar 19 #6

Hey, we 60's protesters grew up and got elderly. Paladin Mar 19 #7

Uh huh. Elessar Zappa Mar 19 #8

Amazing how many people don't know this. writerJT Mar 19 #25

If we engage, age can become irrelevant Torchlight Mar 19 #9

YES! blubunyip Mar 19 #26

Silly. H2O Man Mar 19 #10

There's nothing silly about young people's apathy. Boomerproud Mar 19 #18

Or middle-aged people's. H2O Man Mar 19 #21

I was a kid in a typical small town GenThePerservering Mar 19 #11

This is ridiculous NT GenThePerservering Mar 19 #12

There was a protest in a nearby town and it was all old people. Depressing. I'm afraid by the time the young Vinca Mar 19 #15

That's... mostly Gen Z, I think. sakabatou Mar 19 #16

A lot of Gen Z are still children. Mariana Mar 19 #23

The oldest Gen Z are adults. The youngest is in their mid-teens. None I'd consider "children" sakabatou Mar 19 #24

lol cmon now WhiskeyGrinder Mar 19 #17

There was no social media in the 60s. There are young liberals on social media JI7 Mar 19 #19

Social media efforts & street protests blubunyip Mar 19 #20

The protests are definitely skewing gray Blues Heron Mar 19 #27

Even the young are starting to realize their freedoms may not last too long........... Lovie777 Mar 19 #28

Being drafted and killed in a pointless war is great motivation. BlueTsunami2018 Mar 19 #29

Oh look, another youth bash thread. Celerity Mar 19 #30

Wow, such irony. Nixie Mar 19 #35

get off my lawn pstokely Mar 20 #42

When Social Security is destroyed who do you expect to be protesting? LS0999 Mar 20 #36

I turned 60 this year and I have never assumed social security would be there for me. intheflow Mar 20 #41

I think about this a lot. ananda Mar 20 #37

"Young wolves, show us your teeth." John Steinbeck to some literature sudents in the Soviet Union. in the 60s Ping Tung Mar 20 #38

There were certainly plenty of young people biocube Mar 20 #39