Reply #17: Maybe there was a DU in .. [View All]

[gleaner]

alternate reality which was all roses and puffs of perfume, but it was no place I've ever been. I posted here at two different times due to an interruption by illness, but I never saw what is described in your post.

People were always contentions, irascible and strong minded. They did not hesitate about how they expressed themselves. While I was here before the flame shooter was should Hillary Clinton run for president, why not?, who likes Hillary, who doesn't and so on. All liberally laced with profanity.

This same topic keeps coming up in subsequent threads. Decrying the present, hankering for an ephemeral past and generally trashing what is. Maybe they are putting mind altering substances in the turkeys this year. Who knows?

If you are comparing to Altamont, though, be precise. The Rolling Stones thinking that they were dealing with people who were like the more passive Hells Angels of England, instead hired the less passive Hells Angels of the US to be the security force at their free concert. It went wrong from the beginning. "Security" provided the onlookers with harassment, beatings, and insulted the performers. Finally they stabbed and killed a young black man for talking to a white girl. Is that what you are comparing DU to? Some of us are the victims, some the Hells Angels, some the performers who had been off the streets a little too long to have enough common sense to avoid a bad situation.

I don't think Altamont ended the 60s. Try Kent State and Richard Nixon. That's more like it.