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re: Why do the hippies who protested Vietnam?

Posted on 6/13/25 at 12:23 pm to
Posted by CU_Tigers4life
Georgia
Member since Aug 2013
9200 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 12:23 pm to
Sorry, but every time I hear "hippies" and Vietnam in the same discussion I have to invoke the late Sam Kinison:


Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
31209 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 12:41 pm to
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Because most werent really hippies. They were well off college kids who jumped on the fad.



The right answer
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
293323 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 12:42 pm to
Real hippies are kinda cool. They are actually apolitical.

Posted by Rohan Gravy
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2017
20285 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:11 pm to
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now support Ukraine and want America to be involved in a matter that has no relevancy to true democracy?



Thank you


Been saying this for years

I was anti war during the Nam era and have been ever since
Posted by Winterbush
Member since Jan 2021
158 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:23 pm to
It's because left wingers are very stupid people who can be fish hooked into any position the DNC puts out talking points for. They don't even know why they support Ukraine. The list is endless.

1. Potential world war three from a never ending war in Ukraine? Hell yes, give me some of that.

2. Believing Covid-19 came from Chinese people putting bats on the bbq grill instead of the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Yes, we will believe that.

3. Believing Russia making a Facebook troll account meant Trump and Russia colluded in the 2016 election and it was stolen from Hillary? Yes, we'll believe that.

4. Believing one vaccine will stop the transmission of the virus and Ivermectin is just horse paste? Yes, we'll believe that.

I'm pretty sure that if the DNC put out a talking point to Reddit and traditional left wing media that the moon was made out of cheese, left wingers would suddenly all be screaming that it was so.
This post was edited on 6/13/25 at 1:24 pm
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
22802 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:30 pm to
They never really understood the situation. They were smoking pot and taking LSD
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
135083 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:40 pm to
quote:

Why do the hippies who protested Vietnam?

now support Ukraine and want America to be involved in a matter that has no relevancy to true democracy?
Western globalism is leftist fun. Russia opposes it.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
116616 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:49 pm to
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Because most werent really hippies. They were well off college kids who jumped on the fad.

Yeah, the hippies at that time were not so much into the VN war. They were busy with new drugs and the best music to use while high.
Posted by West Seattle Dude
West Sesttle
Member since Aug 2023
449 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:52 pm to
The “hippies” were not really political. The war protesters were mostly college students and their allies on the left.
Posted by Bass Tiger
Member since Oct 2014
53542 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:54 pm to
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now support Ukraine and want America to be involved in a matter that has no relevancy to true democracy?


The vast majority of people I know over age 60 want the US to disengage itself from the Ukraine/Russia shite show and most are not supportive of the US getting directly involved in the new Israel/Iran shite show.
Posted by Sofaking2
Member since Apr 2023
18643 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:55 pm to
Democrats and Uniparty are pro war.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
293323 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 1:57 pm to
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Yeah, the hippies at that time were not so much into the VN war. They were busy with new drugs and the best music to use while high.


Pretty much.

They wanted to be left alone.

It was the kids with means who jumped on the bandwagon and even pissed off Jack Kurouac
Posted by SantaFe
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
7579 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 2:12 pm to
Draft dodgers and draft card burners.

Cowards.
Posted by Lutcher Lad
South of the Mason-Dixon Line
Member since Sep 2009
7050 posts
Posted on 6/13/25 at 2:12 pm to
I guess they're tired of being cowards who brutally condemned and even spit on our troops who actually answered the call and fought there.

Yellow bastards should've stayed in Canada! Or whatever hole they somehow crawled into.
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