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[–] 80 points 10 months ago (15 children)

This is so surreal.

It's like opening up your browser to be reading about The Weather Underground or the SDS or something....but then again, about 20 years ago, I don't think I was thinking we'd have a Nazi sympathizer in the fucking White House, either, so I also thought Nazis were largely a part of history that would stay in the past.

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Operation Paperclip. You've had multiple Nazis in the white house, the last one repeatedly lied about seeing 40 beheaded children to justify funding and shielding a genocide.

    Trump is just the first fascist Nazi. But America has been totally fine synopsizing with Nazis.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Weather Underground is just a distributed/crowd sourced weather app now full of individual weather stations. I love it both in function and name.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Solid app that’s been around since the early iOS days.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    SDS

    Funny you say that, there's also a new SDS org that has been around since the US invasion of Iraq, but got a lot of press recently during the campus protests over Gaza

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's really wild how all these things are coming back around again.

    It's especially wild because it seems lately the mediascape has been practically saturated with stuff (most of it seemingly from very misinformed/uninformed people that are much younger than the boomers) that tries to paint "boomers" as one big monolith.

    In some moments, I actually start to nearly buy into this nonsensical rhetoric.

    And then I remember this is the generation where things like the Panthers, the Weather Underground, the SDS, and so much else was going on as well. The people kind of mindlessly spewing stuff about boomers would probably do well to zip their lip for a bit and actually learn something about that generation.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    The Weather Underground

    Do you mean the Underground Railroad?

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    The Weather Underground had another round in the headlines when Obama was running. The far right (and the "liberal media" really didn't help much, of course) tried to smear Obama by some kind of much later association of Obama with Ayers.

    The whole thing was hella stupid, of course. Obama was born in 1961, FFS, and would have been 16 years at the oldest when the Weather Underground was even still active.

    But being idiotic is what the far right does best, often with a big assist with dumb dumbs in the "liberal media".

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Also

    Oki Vid

    When people say YouTube sucks, show them Oki. Man is a legend. I love him.

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