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Oh shit. FOX News is back to discussing the Weather Underground. (Original Post) Drunken Irishman Jun 2020 OP
That's definitely a moldy oldie Dirty Socialist Jun 2020 #1
Far Out! Retrograde Jun 2020 #2
I like the weather underground on the weather channel......... ;) nt mitch96 Jun 2020 #3
Y'know, here in Trump's America... Girard442 Jun 2020 #4
Dethrone god Celerity Jun 2020 #5
Not Bill Ayers again. A really moldy oldie. MaeScott Jun 2020 #6
Huh! And I just thought it was hyper local weather... NutmegYankee Jun 2020 #7
There they go again, equating capitalism with religion. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #8
Unfettered Capitalism will inevitably devolve into Fascism...nt Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #14
I think you're correct. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #15
The capitalist goal is to "corner" the market, to monopolize it... Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #16
Deep state? Maxheader Jun 2020 #9
So, they're going all the way back to the 60's to stir shit up. smirkymonkey Jun 2020 #10
Next: Rising Up Angry JustGene Jun 2020 #11
Yes, the Weatherpeople were violent extremists, in the 70's. lark Jun 2020 #12
But you don't need a weatherman edhopper Jun 2020 #13
"Attack and Dethrone God" is actually trending on Twitter highplainsdem Jun 2020 #17
"organize the victim class" aka organize non whites ... these people are so racist uponit7771 Jun 2020 #18
This is also an admission gratuitous Jun 2020 #23
Maybe they'll exhume Nixon and add him to their SharonClark Jun 2020 #19
How fucking pathetic. GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #20
This is 2020. Police unions also have a "strategy" and it should be oasis Jun 2020 #21
You Don't Have to be a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows.. jalan48 Jun 2020 #22

Retrograde

(10,133 posts)
2. Far Out!
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 04:19 AM
Jun 2020

Maybe they’ve uncovered the dastardly Weather Underground V.2 - after all, the current District Attorney of San Francisco is
is Chesa Boudin, son of a Weather Underground member convicted for murder.

Or Fox is scraping the bottom of the barrel of outrage.

Girard442

(6,070 posts)
4. Y'know, here in Trump's America...
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 06:17 AM
Jun 2020

...where the 1% are on track to own everything, the Evangelicals are enthusiastically helping them, and cops publicly execute black people, that's an agenda I could get behind.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
8. There they go again, equating capitalism with religion.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 07:15 AM
Jun 2020

And they equate it with "freedom" too, which it's not. Democracy is far more important in that regard, but they don't mention it much except during their efforts to suppress it.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
15. I think you're correct.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 09:45 AM
Jun 2020

And look at Trump and his followers, wanting to shut down freedom of the press that's critical of them.

Comparisons to Nazis is an old trope, but this is the closest that I've seen at this point, and we seem to keep moving in that direction.

Wounded Bear

(58,647 posts)
16. The capitalist goal is to "corner" the market, to monopolize it...
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 10:15 AM
Jun 2020

when you extend that to politics, you get one party rule and no restraints.

Just plain logic.

Maxheader

(4,372 posts)
9. Deep state?
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 07:16 AM
Jun 2020

Posse comitatus was big for awhile...I remember the weather underground, but not what

their attitude was all about?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. So, they're going all the way back to the 60's to stir shit up.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 07:21 AM
Jun 2020

Man, they are really reaching here. Pathetic.

Next up, the Baader-Meinhof. Wait for it.

lark

(23,091 posts)
12. Yes, the Weatherpeople were violent extremists, in the 70's.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 09:06 AM
Jun 2020

I had a neighbor in CA who had left the Weatherpeople because of their violence. We were friends and she lived right across the cul de sac from me but I didn''t know this for years until we got really drunk together one night and she spilled. This is 2020 and the white nationalists, KKK, Nazi's, white militas are totally right wing and are the ones creating violence. White Nationalists recruited people to police for last 20 years and are installed in upper positions, that is America's big problem right now. There is no corresponding left movememnt, Antifa is just a stupid right wing fantasy to try to pretend it's not them creating the mayhew when the fascistic groups are the main cause of violence.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
23. This is also an admission
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 12:33 PM
Jun 2020

That the current system works only so long as people are exploited and victimized. An end to exploitation equates in their mind to an overthrow of their system.

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