Will 2020 compare to 1968?

[Averageman]

Where I am specifically is not bad at all. I'm in a rural area that tends to be right-of-center and pretty well armed. Rioters are unlikely to be venture out this far. But the radical rhetoric I'm seeing parroted online by people I knew were liberal but not THAT liberal is scary. Also, the reports I'm getting from people I know who are living in the cities is very scary.

I live between two polar opposite large Cities. One is the Hippy Capital of Texas, the other is the Christian College Capital of Texas.
I'm all for blocking I-35 on both ends to leave our sleepy little town alone.

[yoni]

I went to fill gas this morning, and I was in a part of town that was on the border between black and white neighborhoods.

3 20 something black gentlemen approached me swearing at me and delivered the message of this gas is for us and not for white people.

I responded in Spanish, you stupid some profanity, I am not white I am a Latino from the Dominican Republic. I then switched to English, I am sorry your not educated enough to speak Spanish then stated the above.

They apologized to me saying brother we didn't know you weren't white. I filled gas.

When I got home I bought a Latino Pride sticker from Amazon and a Dominican Republic sticker.

I called all my friends in the police in the DR, they all said that was the problem with the United States people like these need to be shot. But everyone in the DR, got a good laugh out of it.

[Grand58742]

The generation that had seen WWII and the Holocaust firsthand was still alive and well in the 60s. Nowadays, both those events are just chapters in history books.

I'm not sure those history books aren't even slanted, twisted and destroyed with the alternate messages from the left.

[soulezoo]

I was a child growing up in a predominantly black area of Sacramento in '68. Ok call it the ghetto if you will. I remember well the riots and it was dangerous for me to go to school. Try being one of two white kids in a class and too young to understand why so much hatred and violence against you. I remember the the SLA and the kidnapping of Patti Hearst and the robbery of Crocker Bank... it happened in my city. (In the '70's)
We're not '68 yet by a stretch. But we're not that far away either... a big difference in my mind is that now, as opposed to then, you have complicit and compliant politicians going along with this crap.
It's gonna get a lot worse IMHO. Buy more ammo. Now.

[Grand58742]

I don't think there is as many millennials per capita as there were boomers. That is one thing that made the 60s so violent is they had the numbers. I don't think the extremists groups that exist today enjoy the same kind of broad support from a huge peer group as existed in the 60s. I think perception created by the internet skews reality.

So if somebody is saying "kill all cops for George Floyd" 3 out of 10 might endorse that message but 5 out of 10 aren't even going to waste their time explaining why those guys are idiots. We also aren't going to see a genocidal civil war this year or anytime in the next 10 years.

Everyone will be all "burn it down" until they can't get their Starbucks and then they will rethink it all. People who just got two months of not working due to Covid actually think they survived something like the Great Depression. They don't have a clue, they didn't even get a full on summer vacation. If they think they will be better able to understand armed insurrection, they will be in for a stunning wake up call.

It's easy to burn shit down when the cops back off, it's easy to loot stores when the mayor creates "free expression" zones but when the day comes that rooftop Koreans start shooting back at you...that will be the end of the Great 2020 Revolution.

While Millenials take a fairly bad rap for most of the things happening today, I honestly believe it's Gen Z that's causing a lot of the problems. Basically, they were born into our post-9/11 society. They have lived under enhanced government control (security) and indoctrination their whole lives. They have been raised in violence practically from day one. Their whole lives have been surrounded by images on TV and the internet of combat, carnage and savagery. This generation knows nothing but the violence they have been surrounded by their entire lives as an acceptable method to achieve their ends.

In reality, they actually are more similar to the Boomer Generation they love to deride then they can comprehend.

Generation Z are the children of the digital age that cannot understand what passing notes in class to "check yes or no" means or what "free range kids" are. There are no leaders in that generation except for the amount of likes your post has or clicks your video gets. The are socially isolated, yet are in contact with more people in the world than we ever dreamed of 30 and 40 years ago. They are praised for "taking a stand" by their icons on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The methods we see of violence and looting and carnage are the products of near constant bombardment of these very same images from around the world 24 hours a day as well as being encouraged to do it by those hiding behind an LED monitor.

None of the behaviors we see should be unexpected to anyone if you consider how much they've been exposed to since birth.

Of course, we Gen X'ers are fully to blame for that. We raised them and gave up our parental rights to a laptop and smart phone years ago.

[jmp45]

Supposedly these surfaced around the CO state house at this weekend's protest. Antifluffers stepping up their game. Ridiculous ..

https://twitter.com/RepDaveWilliams/...14072291749888

[soulezoo]

Supposedly these surfaced around the CO state house at this weekend's protest. Antifluffers stepping up their game. Ridiculous ..

https://twitter.com/RepDaveWilliams/...14072291749888

I've seen the top one before, not the bottom. Obviously not an educated person penned this garbage. But it is directed at the uneducated and easily led ignorant class. Sooooo.... buy more ammo.

[SteyrAUG]

I've seen the top one before, not the bottom. Obviously not an educated person penned this garbage. But it is directed at the uneducated and easily led ignorant class. Sooooo.... buy more ammo.

Bottom one looks very much like right wing propaganda.

[TomMcC]

Supposedly these surfaced around the CO state house at this weekend's protest. Antifluffers stepping up their game. Ridiculous ..

https://twitter.com/RepDaveWilliams/...14072291749888

Maybe it's psychops from some neo-nazis. I definitely feel dumber for reading it.

[soulezoo]

Bottom one looks very much like right wing propaganda.

I can't say I agree, nor disagree, with you. I really don't know. What I can add is this:
I have had one of my employees (black woman) express this exact sentiment and language (I will assert that she got this from her black church) to me just on Friday.
So is it right wing propaganda or real left wing messaging? I don't know.