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American History

ZZenith

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2. The comments section is such a study in the United State's current predicament.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Oct 14, 2021, 04:33 PM

Oct 2021

The video seems to be a bit of a Rorschach test.

I suppose if I were ignorant of some salient facts about our history, I, too, might view those as “the good old days, when kids knew right from wrong, before the hippies screwed everything up.”

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Fun To Watch 1960s Teenage Baby Boomers Who DIDN'T Rebel [View all] Uncle Joe Oct 2021 OP

Me until 1966 - when the health class anti-drug films made me want to smoke pot! marble falls Oct 2021 #1

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The comments section is such a study in the United State's current predicament. ZZenith Oct 2021 #2

They were right.... multigraincracker Oct 2021 #4

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That's what I thought as well, most of them anyway, it looks like a microcosm Uncle Joe Oct 2021 #9

The total capitulation is quite terrifying to me. ShazamIam Oct 2021 #10