I just finished reading it and the whole thing is fascinating, really. It made me realise that I know very little about that time period and of North american politics in general, I don’t know if its a useful essay or even a good one, or if the author is full of it but I still enjoyed reading it, tickled my neurons in a very nice way. Usually when I post these I wait for a more educated user to reply and pick it apart, still waiting to see that happen

If you don’t mind listening to English

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any french ones perchance?

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might be time to read up on this, any recs?

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The Long Haired Conservatives: the Children of '68 Reconsidered

interesting read ive had yesterday, heres a great excerpt:

"The purpose of this essay is to correct the oft-made assumption that the children of '68 were Marxists intent on tearing down American society and reconstructing something new, socialistic and, most terrifyingly, foreign in its place. Naturally there were some elements within the New Politics movement (I shall explain that term later) who wanted to do precisely those things. But this article argues that the vast majority of the kids at Chicago were in fact radical conservatives who came from a very American tradition of anti-authoritarianism. Their aim was to challenge and reverse the growth in government that had begun in the 1930s. Not truly belonging to the far left at all, they were anti-bureaucratic and shared many similar traits with their contemporaries on the American right. Therefore, it is my contention that the wrong lessons have been taken from 1968. The New Politics was a fundamentally conservative movement, not a leftist one."

although I should probably look into talking about adding ‘no posting unsubstantiated news’ to the rules list too now that I think about it

can only support this, would prevent lazy linking from garbage twitter threads.

twitter is not “news”

thank you, very informative

heres someone’s archive of letters like these he received since 2006 http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

I recommend digging through the website because there is a lot of shady shit going on, from employees hiding their names, to the bbc hiding behind trademarks, to fake employees… its… really bizarre.

more importantly, you are under NO LEGAL obligation to reply to these stupid letters in any way: http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Questions and answers.htm

oh! ok now i care too

my sister now lives in north america, she came back in france 2 weeks ago and the first thing she did was go buy fresh food, she told me food in NA is “diseased” and “miserable”.

deserved, dont care.

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