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Comrade Grumpy

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19. I think hippies have influenced our culture in ways your bitterness cannot see.

Thu Nov 21, 2013, 10:43 PM

Nov 2013

There was that whole sexual revolution thing, and women's rights, for instance. I think there were some hippies involved in that.

And, of course, they were part of the antiwar movement. That may not have been an immediate success, but that, and the results of the war itself, certainly chastened our imperial impulses for a few years.

And they certainly played a role in the slow-moving breakdown of the drug prohibition consensus.

As for the labor unions, their main interactions with hippies seemed to consist of beating them up.

I really don't understand your need to denigrate an entire generation. Seems, uh, classless.

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of course G_j Nov 2013 #3

Except about that whole "dropping out" thing... Scootaloo Nov 2013 #9

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I think hippies have influenced our culture in ways your bitterness cannot see. Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #19

By point... Scootaloo Nov 2013 #25

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Okay, you hate hippies. Got it. But what about those fucking beatniks? Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #17

I don't, actually Scootaloo Nov 2013 #18

I was alive at the time. Were you? Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #22

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Nice dysfunctional formula you got there. If you read more about them, you'd see that ancianita Nov 2013 #30

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