No.
You say the Facebook Ear has past, but there are still literally billions of people logging in everyday.
Your small set of friends might have passed on Facebook, but it hasn’t gone away.
Moreover, when I say “hippie era” you think of certain clothes, certain music, etc etc.
There’s no one style that defines the ‘Facebook Era.’
I agree. The 1970s were disco, the 1980s were punk, the 1990s was New Wave, and the 2000’s was the 2000’s.
I’m old enough to remember Spice Girl mania.
People who never brought a record knew all the songs, because they were played on the radio, and every store and restaurant played local stations. They were in the newspapers and in magazines. They were mentioned on the local news shows.
I’ve never heard a Taylor Swift song played in public. All the stores and restaurants that have radio play dedicated oldies stations. No new music at all. I haven’t watched the local news in years, and newspapers and magazines are gone.
I think you’re going to see smaller and smaller groups getting excited by niche interests. You’re not going to see Beatlemania ever again.
I can’t think of one plausible scenario where the US government ceases to exist that doesn’t involve mass death. Think all those aircraft carriers and atomic subs are just going to be quietly decommissioned? I strongly doubt that the Left that couldn’t push past the DNC is going to be able to take control.
So, you think that Russia and China won’t step in and grab up the spoils and keep the system going? There are plenty of billionaires who aren’t in the US.
Steve Trevor has entered the chat…
This is why the Right keeps getting stronger and stronger and the Left keeps failing.
Back in the day, guy named Jerry Falwell came up with a simple plan to become a power broker. He had a bunch of churches behind him and he gave them their marching orders. If twenty people showed up at the local GOP club for the monthly meetings, his ‘Moral Majority’ would show up with fifty. They grabbed up little jobs like county clerk in towns you never heard of, but every year they had more and more power. eventually they were on top.
Meanwhile, you’re still blinding yourself with the idea of “an actual Left opposition.”
Here’s another tidbit for you to chew on. Back in 1860, escaped slave Frederick Douglas decided not to support the candidate who promised to back abolition. He went with Lincoln, because Douglas figured that a leader who won the election and was willing to listen was better than a committed candidate who was out of power.
Wrong.
Waiting for the perfect candidate is how we ended up here in the first place.
I was educated by some old school Communists who’d gone to Spain in the 1930s and gotten blacklisted in the 1950s.
One story they told was how in 1968 they were telling people to vote for Hubert Humphrey. The younger folks thought he was no better than Nixon, but my teachers knew that Nixon would be much worse.
What makes you think there will even be elections in 2028 if Trump keeps control of the House and Senate?
Here’s a thought.
I said explicitly that the Nazis got beaten by people uniting behind a leadership they didn’t 100% agree with.
Your reaction was to demand that I 100% agree with you about something that happened before either of us was born.
Maybe you’d do better to stop caring about the past and start focusing on what is going on right now.
Why don’t you tell us all, explicitly, why my opinion of Stalin matters right now?
Another thing.
If the new people see that the top managers don’t listen to the old hands, the new people will ignore them too. Now you’ve got rookies teaching each other to make rookie mistakes.
If you’re going to put words in my mouth, please add a side of nachos?
Where did I say the USSR wasn’t a big part of the War?
Quote the exact words.
“Institutional knowledge” is a dirty word to a lot of top managers.
It means that they would have to talk to lower level folks as equals. That they would have to rethink their plans.
It’s much easier for them to do some team building exercises instead.
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Back in the day, a writer named Alfred Bester created a radio character who only spoke gibberish. One day he went to the producer and aske why they’d had the character say ‘woo-woo-woo’ when he’d written ‘blagga-blagga?’
The producers told him that they knew he was a sleazy New York Jew boy and he’d try to sneak in some dirty words into their scripts.
In the next script he introduced a character named Mr. Merkin.
Let’s put aside the fact that Stalin not only trusted Hitler, he trusted Hitler so much that he executed people who reported that Hitler was planning on invading Russia. Let’s put aside the fact that Stalin crippled his own army by killing his own Generals. Let’s put aside the fact that Stalin’s rule in the USSR was so bad that it resulted in countries near him going Fascist out of fear of Communism.
In WW2 all sorts of different people put aside their differences and united. They might have thought that Winston Churchill was a bastard, but he was the one that had the best chance of stopping Hitler.
Getting behind the people who already had an organization was how they stopped the Nazis.
He literally said that gun deaths are the price we have to pay for a free society.
I geuss the medal is for his contribution to that cause??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied
Horst Wessel was a Nazi street fighter of no great distinction. He died in a brawl with some other thugs his landlady had hired.
Because his death played into Party propaganda, he was posthumously raised to secular sainthood. The ballad of his death became a favorite Nazi marching song.
First, tax the rich. Go back to Eisenhower’s 90% tax rates. Use that money to pay off all the student loans.
Next, bring back the CCC*. Details would be figured out, but I’d give the young men and women a chance to get good paying jobs with just a high school diploma. We need to repair the infrastructure, put in high speed rail, update the power grid, and prepare for climate change.
Space colonization. We were doing a Gemini mission every month back when computers were bigger than the Empire State Building. We know that there are asteroids with enough iron to last our industrial needs for the next thousand years. Our goal should be to move all heavy industry off planet.
Things like health care and education you can take as a given.
*Civilian Conservation Corps.
If one Party has won their elections and has the White House and a super majority in both Houses, it’s completely legal and right for them to pass the laws they want. As long as they keep holding elections it’s not a dictatorship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied
Horst Wessel was a Nazi street fighter. He died in an argument with his landlady. He owed rent and she’d asked some local boys to be at the meeting. Turns out the locals were Communists. The Nazi Party turned Horst into a martyr and made the song about him the Party anthem.
Kirk was just lucky enough to publicly catch a bullet.
Funny that the guy who cares so much about crime released a convicted felon.