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Spiritual Annie ☮️The 70's, too. 😢
David H. McCoy@SpiritualAnnie @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
What people?
70s: Rampant stagflation in the 70s, gas lines, Iranian hostage crisis, Watergate, racism, homophobia
80s: Reaganomics, double-digit interest rates, inflation, racism, homophobia
90s: recession , interest rates higher than today, inflation, racism, homophobia, poor salaries, Iraq invasion
All happened. Wasn’t some Golden Age.
@davidhmccoy @SpiritualAnnie No, but if you were a kid back then, then it definitely seemed better because you weren't aware of all that (at least not much).
@davidhmccoy @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
I could ride my bike *anywhere* and not have to worry about being assaulted.
I could walk to and from school without worrying about gangs.
I could be gone from home all day and Mama didn't have to worry.
We had a Neighborhood Association and block parties.
When people moved into the neighborhood, they were welcomed with baked goods.
(And, before you say it, I'm white but grew up in a mixed neighborhood and went to a majority Black school district.)
@SpiritualAnnie @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
That’s awesome for you. Many didn’t have that experience, so I stand by what I said. Those days were not some Golden Era, certainly not for everyone.
I didn’t worry about gangs either when I went to a majority Black school.
Not sure what that means.
qurlyjoe@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Many of us who lived thru the 60s and 70s are thinking, feels like old times. Apparently the bozos working at reinstating the draft are forgetting how badly that worked out the last time.
Many of us who lived thru the 60s and 70s are thinking, feels like old times. Apparently the bozos working at reinstating the draft are forgetting how badly that worked out the last time.
T. J. Bombadil@qurlyjoe @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon it worked out GREAT for them. They all had bone spurs!
@c_dan4th
I was thinking more of the ones who had to deal with the marches and sit-ins and such. Yeah, 4 dead in Ohio, but I’m one who believes that we had significant affect on the course of society, for a while at least. But then it all went sideways and here we are.
@qurlyjoe @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I know you were. My parents’ generation is still permanently altered by the draft and those who didn’t come back from Vietnam. But the people making the decisions (then and now) don’t have as much skin in the game. You can bet Baron Trump won’t have to go to Basic and get the buzz cut.
cobalt@qurlyjoe @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon One important distinct difference from The Day (my time) the surveillance has become pervasive and threatening. Another sad development,
“They” have made most public dissent “illegal” in so very many places. And the definition of dissent that is illegal can and does include mere presence in some places. I thing if those 3 elderly women who merely stood, completely silent in vigil and were arrested.
@cobalt123
Surveillance is orders of magnitude more pervasive & intrusive than it was, and militarization of the police as well. What it will take, and what seems to be happening, is for people to realize it’s their lives at stake, not just some abstract notion of freedom or liberty. We’ve seen it in other countries, we’ve seen stirrings of it here. How many civilians have to die before the rest wake up? And that’s just whites. POC been dying all along. They count too.
@qurlyjoe @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Accurate. It’s unheard of repression so pervasive from our own government against ordinary citizens
RevPudDudley@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon wasn't much to say Hurray about in the 80s-90s except when Reagan was finally offstage