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Yes, Mon-El may take over.

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 10:16:14 +0000

In reply to How do we know Covid will be

Yes, Mon-El may take over. But usually Superhero series like pandemics last about 3 years and then are replaced by a new cast or reboot.

How do we know Covid will be

Orion — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 01:09:06 +0000

In reply to FFS, *NOBODY* was called a

How do we know Covid will be done in a year? There might be a new Kryptonite variant come next year.

Watching Alannis Morissette,

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:30:00 +0000

In reply to Also I should mention that it

Watching Alannis Morissette, basically 1990's hippie stoicism, "things are messed up but I'm/we're working it out". A bit of Pere Ubu dadaism and Bob Dylan harmonica thrown in to keep things from going too serious.

Is anyone that light on their feet even while landing heavy punches today?

https://youtu.be/_dppVIxmPLs

Well, Snoop obviously - how bad is racism when this feels completely normal?

https://youtu.be/hACIJUdXlUs

Don't forget Nordic sticks!

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:27:00 +0000

In reply to super understatement:

Don't forget Nordic sticks!

My Mom thought I was immature for riding a bike around town in my late 20s ((i also had a car). Now that her friends do it as she ages, it's A-OK. Of course I wasn't doing it to stay healthy - it was just the easiest way to move.

super understatement:

artappraiser — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 07:38:44 +0000

In reply to Nixon+Wallace got 57% of the

super understatement: Certainly there were cultural divides between hippies/youth and older straight arrows.More accurate to weight on the side of a generation gap possibly like never before in human history.

Partly this is the education gap of working class, including the parents, not being college-goers. The counterculture hippies are seen as throwing in their parents face the belief of climbing the class ladder, "the American dream" by going to college and then protesting. That is not myth, that tore apart families. Dad's with crewcuts who worked 1st shift at GM to help their kids go to college and become a professional knew exactly what that long hair on their son meant - it was an insult to what they believed in.

Another difference between hippies and yippie types is that the former knew construction workers were looking to beat some hippie's heads in, they were hopeless enemies that wanted to hurt you because of your counterculture, and you'd better steer clear, but the latter thought, in the same old same old way of Marxists, that they could win over the uneducated working class to the revolution be allies if they just tried harder.

Fast forward a decade and the construction workers have long hair and are wearing earrings and smoking dope. And little old ladies are actually wearing tennis shoes and casual clothes rather than girdles, orthopedic shoes and rolled nylon stockings, and helmet hair enforced with hair spray (Noticeably and curiously, people like Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth continued with that whole thing for much longer than most!)

Women called baby killer

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 07:31:39 +0000

In reply to "All that effort during that

Women called baby killer

https://digbysblog.net/2021/12/02/back-to-the-future-on-abortion/

absolute.y there was wide

artappraiser — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 07:12:34 +0000

In reply to Ken Kesey showed up to speak

absolutely there was wide interest in the principles of non-violent protest, the tactics of Ghandi (moreso than MLK who was admired but seen as too tied up in race war and as a minister a little too conservative or mainstream) Ghandi who was also anti-imperalist and a believer in globalism. that tribes (Hindu & Muslim) could live in harmony, he could go to the textile workers in England and make them understand the problem in India. The interest of rock groups like The Beatles in India and Hinduism and Buddhism and meditation and "yogis" is actually related to this zeitgeist, looking for an alternative to western ways

p.s. whaddya know, the public

artappraiser — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 06:56:05 +0000

In reply to LBJ was the only one called a

p.s. whaddya know, the public internet (that great invention by Gen X "slackers"), has refreshed my memory, it's right here-tho in Italian, hah- the song lyrics that ended up being the protest chant I remember Hey, hey LBJ! / How many kids did you kill today?" ,. the page even has a photo of a protest banner with the chant on it.

and again, it was truly like he was the only one called that, I never saw evidence of any "hippie" calling a soldier a baby killer or spitting on them, it was like the opposite: enormous pity for what they got forced to do, to the point of naivete where things like the MyLai masscre was seen as all the Pentagon's fault. Remember there is a draft, most grunts are not volunteers, and the draft is the point of all the protesting, so the grunts are victims of "the system." A lot like you are doing now, hippies were simplistically blaming the power people of the grownup generation in charge.

I vaguely recall Defense Sec. Bob McNamara being a big target of protest slurs too...

Ken Kesey showed up to speak

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 06:53:46 +0000

In reply to LBJ was the only one called a

Ken Kesey showed up to speak at a Yippie anti-war festival, and just kept repeating, "Just walk away. Don't take the gauntlet - just walk away." He thought by getting all involved and heated up in this "us vs them" conflict we would become largely just like them. Just don't fight. Do what you were going to do instead. How's that for non-confrontational hippie tactics? He pissed a lot of people off. They wanted him to help lead the counterculture, but not *that* way.

LBJ was the only one called a

artappraiser — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 06:30:34 +0000

In reply to "All that effort during that

LBJ was the only one called a baby killer, I remember it distinctly.

It was not by "hippies", though, it was by radical lefties that were called "yippies" to distinguish them, or Weathermen if you like. They admired communism, like "tankies" do today. Your stereotypes are way too broad, the extreme generalities you are applying are making you take away very simplistic analysis, you need to learn more complexity about the eras you make judgments about

Are all millennials or ar all woke tankies? Nope they aren't "Hippies" didn't blow up buildings, nor did they riot at Democratic conventions in Chicago, causing Nixon to be elected, they were for peace and free love. They didn't want a literal revolution nor to bring down the government, they wanted Americans to stop participating in war in Vietnam, not for the U.S. to become like East Germany. The part in the movies where you see soldiers hating Jane Fonda? That's real, that's because she was a tankie, she actually climbed up on a communist tank. Hippies went to college and at war protests put flowers in the end of national guard barrels but some of them ended up being shot at anyway. Yippies were fans of Mao.

They started Earth Day, they started concern for the environment, "Silent Spring" was a bible. Their parents could give a damn, didn't believe any of it, the more consumption of resources the better the more cars and roads and sprawl the better. (See One word: plastics. in The Graduate.) Greta Thunberg is a retro revival hippie to a T

BTW, hippies started "car sharing", but they called it "hitchhiking".

They thought the Pentagon should be "defunded." Senator Proxmire agreed with them, so a lot of their parents slowly started to agree. Same with trusting big corporations to care about people. The pre-spoiler Ralph Nader agreed with them, and slowly convinced a lot of their parents. They learned in college that advertising was actually telling lies to people for big lying corporations, before that, people trusted and believed advertising. They were very interested in psychology, this was something the Greatest Generation thought was nonsense, just go to church, goddamit. They were not fans of organized religion as it existed then, thought it taught people bad things, like tribalism.

Your judgment that "hippies" were just like the identity politics fans of today is totally wrong and opposite the truth of the matter, as even the advertising men knew, they wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, they believed in inclusiveness and globalism and everyone getting along to the point of naivete, including

When they grew up and got power and became practical people like Bill and Hillary Clinton (and Al Gore, Mr,. Earth Day), they did things like help reduce crime in a major major way, something never thought possible. And introduce earned income credit to stop the societal destruction of the welfare state paying babies to have babies over generations,. And take care of infinite almost religious care of economy and international trade to the point where they proved that what. economists believed was not possible since Eisenhower: low unemployment and low inflation at the same time, and not just a balanced federal budget but a paydown of the national debt./

Comes to mind Gov. Moonbeam was a hippie, you might know something about him...

Don't get me wrong: I am impressed with your real good instincts and that you properly question things, and I always like to see what you're thinking, it's just that your stereotypes of times gone by are too simplistic and broad and you just need more learning time to gain some more nuanced understanding of the eras you are judging.