I forgot who posted it but someone pointed out the old 'nam protests were shit like setting fires and shit (and objectively correct obvs) and the people who saw them happen now are saying singing in tents is 'worse than ever'. It's so transparent
Similar events around the country—which reportedly drew hundreds of thousands of student participants—featured speakers emphasizing "increasing nationalism and hatred" and warned "against the approaching menace of fascism."
Nice.
Well the question is really “When was the last time the US was in a war that was unambiguously just?” so it’s more about the general cruelty and futility of war. Of course an attitudinally anti-war cohort will have a pretty high hit rate on this.
I think we arguably did two in the 90s. History had ended and we decided to just do good guys stuff for a minute, stopping a genocide and de-invading a country. Then 9/11 happened and the grown-ups lost their damn minds, and we got right back on our bullshit.
Bin Laden and Saddam were CIA supported assets before they told the US to go fuck themselves, though. So, was sort of the US causing the problems, in the first place.
I'm not sure where your Bin Laden reference comes into it, I'm talking about the 90s. The Balkans and Iraq 1 were what I was referring to. From a high level, those were both "the right thing to do".
Masses of scared little men with guns on our kids' campuses, directed by scared little men in government.
At what point in this arc towards fascism are the adults going to step up and resist?
There was a pretty big protest at the university of Kansas in the early aughts about trying to make the McRib a year round thing. That’s the only one I can think of
